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• Geneva Conventions controversy
  The '''Geneva Conventions controversy''' in the opening years of the 21st century hinges on the statu ...de which wants to give the detainees more rights. They say that the Geneva Conventions "apply" to the enemy combatants, referring to the sections about enemy pris
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• Depleted uranium
  ...eclaration of 29 July 1899, Hague Convention IV of 18 October 1907 and the Geneva Protocol of 17 June 1925—did not cover nuclear weapons, because their pri ...ention]], the [[United Nations Convention Against Torture]], the [[Geneva Conventions]] including [[Protocol I]], the [[Convention on Conventional Weapons]] of 1
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• Militant
  ...orist organizations.<ref name="SandersDecoding">Sanders, Clinton. Marginal Conventions: Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Social Deviance. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bow ...eign occupier do not violate international law. Protocol 1 of the [[Geneva Conventions]] gives lawful combatant status to those engaging in armed conflicts agains
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• Insurgency
  ...se wording being included in the [[Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)|Hague Conventions]] known as the [[Martens Clause]] after the diplomat who drafted the clause The [[Third Geneva Convention]], as well as the other Geneva Conventions, are oriented to conflict involving nation-states, and only loosely address
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• Definitions of terrorism
  ...opted a series of [[Definition of terrorism#The sectoral approach|sectoral conventions]] that define and criminalize various types of terrorist activities. In add More recently the 1977 [[Protocol I|Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Internation
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• Feroz Abbasi
  ...parently rekindled after he was mugged at 19 on his first trip abroad to [[Geneva]] and then met a [[Kashmiri people|Kashmiri]] refugee there. He began to fr "International law does not apply. Geneva Conventions do not apply. You have been designated an enemy combatant. This Tribunal wi
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• Moazzam Begg
  ...ntion#Section I: General Provisions|an exception allowed for by the Geneva Conventions]]. ...d determination .... Second ... a detaining power's determination that the Geneva Convention ... does not apply to a certain armed conflict or a certain cate
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• Black site
  ...countries where they are likely to be tortured. The decision was made in [[Geneva]] following two days of hearings at which a 26-member U.S. delegation defen | title=Bush orders CIA to comply with Geneva Conventions
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• Combatant Status Review Tribunal
  ...implement [[wikisource:Third Geneva Convention#Article 5|Article 5 of the Geneva Convention]] that deals with prisoners of war. So [if] our CSRT process inc ...ses to make determinations in compliance with the Article 5 of the [[Third Geneva Convention]] (that states "Should any doubt arise as to whether persons, ha
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• Enemy combatant
  ...enDocument Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949: Part I : General provisions: Conflicts no of an internati ...f persons who do not qualify for prisoner-of-war status under the [[Geneva Conventions]]. Thus, the term "enemy combatant" has to be read in context to determine
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• Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
  ...e Bush administration argument in favor of this policy was that the Geneva Conventions the USA signed protected the fighters of only recognized states, and al Qae ...rotections. Article 5 says that combatants suspected of violations of the Conventions are to be afforded POW protection until the captors have convened a "compet
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• Extraordinary rendition by the United States
  ...o countries where they are likely to be tortured. The decision was made in Geneva following two days of hearings at which a 26-member U.S. delegation defende ...ctices are unethical, unconstitutional, ineffective, and defy the [[Geneva Conventions]].
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• Geneva Conventions controversy
  The '''Geneva Conventions controversy''' in the opening years of the 21st century hinges on the statu ...de which wants to give the detainees more rights. They say that the Geneva Conventions "apply" to the enemy combatants, referring to the sections about enemy pris
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• Ghost detainee
  * "[[Enemy combatant]]s", a legal status recognized under the [[Geneva Conventions]]- concerning [[prisoners of war]] and [[civilian]]s
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• Guantanamo military commission
  ...so as [[Military Tribunal]]) was illegal under [[US law]], including the [[Geneva Convention]]s.<ref name=Scotus2005October>{{cite web | url= http://www.supr ...e both the UCMJ ([[Uniform Code of Military Justice]]) and the four Geneva Conventions signed in 1949." Ultimately the Supreme Court ruled that President [[Georg
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• Military Commissions Act of 2006
  ...ble by civilized peoples' for purposes of common Article 3 of the [[Geneva Conventions]]. ...t to trial by military commission under this chapter may invoke the Geneva Conventions as a source of rights.
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• Unlawful combatant
  ...f a co-belligerent State, retains rights and privileges under the [[Fourth Geneva Convention]] so that he must be "treated with humanity and, in case of tria ...[[International Committee of the Red Cross|ICRC]] commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention: Every person in enemy hands must be either a prisoner of war an
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