Is it more meaningful than the more explicit and more relevant ban on use in the Geneva Convention?
"Captured combatants must be treated as Prisoners of War in accordance with the Third Geneva Convention, " it added.
And although the Geneva Convention covers civilians accompanying armies, it was not intended to apply to armed guards.
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U.S. officials should be working on ways to penalize - financially or otherwise - states that violate the Geneva Convention.
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The core purpose of the Geneva Convention is to encourage the conduct of war in a way that minimizes violence to civilians.
Under the Geneva Convention of 1949 and the Hague regulations of 1907 the coalition has clear responsibilities and clear limits to its authority.
It also said Israel must comply with the Fourth Geneva Convention, which states that occupying powers shouldn't transfer parts of its civilian population into territory it occupies.
Now, the Obama administration is making the case that a part of the Geneva Convention that the US has never ratified should be accepted in the United States.
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Lord Hoffman said the women were entitled to seek asylum under the 1951 Geneva convention because the evidence was that the state would not assist them because they were women.
So perhaps the conference is designed to come up with some new international measures to combat cybercrime or a new Geneva convention to agree some rules of engagement for cyber war fare?
The Geneva Convention banning the use of chemical weapons by states has been on the books since 1925 and has been violated repeatedly, most notably of late by Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war.
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Chief among them, according to a senior administration official, are "legal issues covered by the Geneva convention" -- including the issue of whether the two men want to be released to the Yugoslav government.
But the Vatican Gendarmes insist that the conditions under which Gabriele will be held fully respect the Geneva Convention on torture and "conform to the detention standards applicable to other countries in analogous circumstances".
Foreign Office Parliamentary Secretary Ben Bradshaw told MPs he was confident the prisoners were being kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention but that the definition of a prisoner of war was an "extremely complicated matter".
The Committee would be well advised to heed Mr. Feith's advice that emphasis should be placed upon fixing the existing Geneva convention rather than exacerbating its present shortcomings -- namely its unenforceability -- with a new treaty that will be neither verifiable, nor effective nor enforceable.
But then, the advice I was giving about how that should be done and the need for the coalition to take very seriously its Geneva Convention obligations to keep order, to keep basic humanitarian services running, and to keep civil administration running, and get the UN in to create a new Iraqi political and interim authority, that was all being ignored.
According to the Third Geneva Convention itself (the one covering POWs), for a person to qualify as a POW and be accorded the treatment proscribed in said convention, that person must be affiliated (either regular army or militia meaning some sort of uniform) with a "High Contracting Power" (a state that was party to the convention but for argument's sake we'll say any state).
Efforts have been made since 1918 to stamp them out -- through the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which bans their use, and the 1997 Convention on Chemical Weapons, which bans their use, development, production and transfer -- but still some nations stockpile them.
The emphasis will be on documenting the demographics of the African business aviation community and developing educational programs that address the needs of operators and suppliers within Africa rather than massive trade shows such as the National Business Aviation Association Convention (planned this month in Orlando, FL) or EBACE the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (planned for May, 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland).
Frail hopes rest on a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in Geneva next month, at which America may perhaps argue for a ban on trade in endangered species where tigers are not protected.
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