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Our rules don't work in Afghanistan 30 Nov 2009 10:11 GMT
... y first exposure to Afghan prisoners was in November of ... for even the most minimal threshold of human rights, as the West understands them, there would ...
Demjanjuk Nazi war crimes trial starts 30 Nov 2009 11:53 GMT
... John Demjanjuk denies any role in the Holocaust. Demjanjuk, a ... the Holocaust He says he was a prisoner of war during conflict, not a camp guard Demjanjuk, ... to be sent overseas. They also raised human rights and other legal issues. ...
Italy's Berlusconi visit ends Belarus isolation 30 Nov 2009 20:04 GMT
... President Lukashenko, who is often accused of human rights abuses and election rigging, in a declaration ... Lukashenko handed over KGB archives on Italian prisoners of war who were captured in Belarus. Last year ...
Experts divided on decision to try 9/11 suspect in New York court 26 Nov 2009 07:12 GMT
... law. The Geneva Conventions, which dictate how prisoners of war are to be treated, do not mention ... he wrote. And while Mohammed cannot claim prisoner of war status -- the conventions require combatants to ... a military court --and many Democrats and human rights advocates championing the move. John B. Bellinger, ...
Former top official: Afghan prison abuse well known 27 Nov 2009 00:53 GMT
... over the detainee issue. Opposition parties and human rights advocates have been asking why the government ... the agency trusted by nations to observe prisoners of war, was named in emails to Ottawa as ...
Ex-defence chief contradicts diplomat 26 Nov 2009 20:57 GMT
... the agency trusted by nations to observe prisoners of war, was named in e-mails to Ottawa as ... federal government had asked the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission to monitor prisoners on Canada’s behalf. ...
Impunity in Sri Lanka; Post-War Internment Hell for Tamils by RON RIDENOUR 29 Nov 2009 06:42 GMT
... no official investigators into abuses since the Human Rights Council majority blocked such a possibility�who come ... of hostilities. Once active hostilities have ceased, prisoners of war must be released `without delay�.�At of July, ...
Sri Lankan government announces 'release' of Tamil detainees 27 Nov 2009 13:15 GMT
... (IDPs)” or “refugees” have been treated as prisoners of war. The camps are run by the military, ... the detention centres and more broadly over human rights. The US State Department recently compiled a ...
Former top official says claims of Afghan prison abuse well known in 2006 26 Nov 2009 22:15 GMT
... the agency trusted by nations to observe prisoners of war, was named in emails to Ottawa as ... the federal government asked the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission to monitor prisoners on Canada's behalf. ...
Top official: Afghan prison abuse well known 26 Nov 2009 22:34 GMT
... the agency trusted by nations to observe prisoners of war, was named in emails to Ottawa as ... the federal government asked the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission to monitor prisoners on Canada's behalf. ...
Despite denials, torture risk was always clear 29 Nov 2009 09:55 GMT
... International Red Cross Committee -- which monitors prisoners of war for the United Nations -- on the ... have no regard for international law or human rights, but also to have a government and ...
How many virtual war crimes have you committed? 27 Nov 2009 10:11 GMT
... hostages) and violations of three specific fundamental human rights, including the right to life, the prohibition ... in in which Russians gun down German prisoners of war as an act of pointless, bloody vengeance. ...
Hamas in talks on Shalit prisoner swap 26 Nov 2009 08:49 GMT
... , Tuesday 24 November 2009 17.31 GMT Captured Israeli soldier Gilad ... Rami Igra, a former director of the prisoner of war department in Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service, ... in its jails, according to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. Some 300 are held without ...
Hamas in talks on Shalit prisoner swap deal 25 Nov 2009 20:54 GMT
... , Tuesday 24 November 2009 17.31 GMT Captured Israeli soldier Gilad ... Rami Igra, a former director of the prisoner of war department in Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service, ... in its jails, according to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. Some 300 are held without ...
Hamas in talks on soldier swap deal 25 Nov 2009 07:53 GMT
... , Tuesday 24 November 2009 17.31 GMT Captured Israeli soldier Gilad ... Rami Igra, a former director of the prisoner of war department in Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service, ... in its jails, according to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. Some 300 are held without ...

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