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	Fourth Geneva Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fourth Geneva Convention (or GCIV) relates to the protection of civilians during times of war "in the hands" of an enemy and under any occupation by a foreign power.
		This should not be confused with the more common Third Geneva Convention which deals with the treatment of prisoners of war.
		The convention was published on August 12, 1949, at the end of a conference held in Geneva from April 21 to August 12, 1949.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention (938 words)

	Third Geneva Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was revised in 1949, with the modified form adopted on August 12 of that year by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, held in Geneva from April 21 to August 12, 1949, and entered into force on October 21, 1950.
		Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field.
		Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Third_Geneva_Convention (1522 words)

	JS Online: A fifth Geneva Convention
		At issue is whether the captives are entitled to the protection of the third Geneva Convention of 1949 ("Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War").
		In fact, there are four Geneva Conventions dealing with the conduct of war, all of them lengthy and complex and all written in 1949.
		The Geneva Conventions need to recognize this new threat and provide up-to-date ways to govern the treatment of fighters who don't wear uniforms and struggle on behalf of ideologies, not necessarily nation-states.
	www.jsonline.com /news/editorials/jan02/16396.asp?format=print (444 words)

	The Avalon Project : Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War; August 12, 1949
		The present Convention shall be applied with the cooperation and under the scrutiny of the Protecting Powers whose duty it is to safeguard the interests of the Parties to the conflict.
		Subject to the provisions of the present Convention relative to penal and disciplinary sanctions, prisoners of war may not be held in close confinement except where necessary to safeguard their health and then only during the continuation of the circumstances which make such confinement necessary.
		The present Convention, which bears the date of this day, is open to signature until February 12, 1950, in the name of the Powers represented at the Conference which opened at Geneva on April 21, 1949; furthermore, by Powers not represented at that Conference, but which are parties to the Convention of July 27, 1929.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/geneva03.htm (17691 words)

	The Avalon Project : Convention Between the United States of America and Other Powers, Relating to Prisoners of War; ...
		The commander of this camp shall be responsible for the observation, in the labor detachment, of the provisions of the present Convention.
		The text of the present Convention and of the special conventions provided for in the foregoing article, shall be posted, wherever possible in the native language of the prisoners of war, in places where it may be consulted by all the prisoners.
		DONE at Geneva, the twenty-seventh of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, in a single copy, which shall remain in the archives of the Swiss Confederation and duly certified copies of which shall be forwarded to the Governments of all the countries invited to the Conference.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/geneva02.htm (8449 words)

	Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Persons protected by the Convention are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals.
		The provisions of the present Convention constitute no obstacle to the humanitarian activities which the International Committee of the Red Cross or any other impartial humanitarian organization may, subject to the consent of the Parties to the conflict concerned, undertake for the protection of civilian persons and for their relief.
		The text of the present Convention and the texts of special agreements concluded under the said Convention shall be posted inside the place of internment, in a language which the internees understand, or shall be in the possession of the Internee Committee.
	www.unhchr.ch /html/menu3/b/92.htm (14864 words)

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		ARTICLE 5 The present Convention shall apply to the persons referred to in Article 4 from the time they fall into the power of the enemy and until their final release and repatriation.
		ARTICLE 8 The present Convention shall be applied with the cooperation and under the scrutiny of the Protecting Powers whose duty it is to safeguard the interests of the Parties to the conflict.
		ARTICLE 9 The provisions of the present Convention constitute no obstacle to the humanitarian activities which the International Committee of the Red Cross or any other impartial humanitarian organization may, subject to the consent of the Parties to the conflict concerned, undertake for the protection of prisoners of war and for their relief.
	fletcher.tufts.edu /multi/texts/BH240.txt (17898 words)

	U.S. Officials Misstate Geneva Convention Requirements (Human Rights Watch Letter, New York, January 28, 2002)
		We write to address several arguments advanced for not applying Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, which, as you know, requires the establishment of a "competent tribunal" to determine individually whether each detainee is entitled to prisoner-of-war status should any doubt arise regarding their status.
		By their terms, the Geneva Conventions apply to "all cases of declared war or of any other armed conflict which may arise between two or more of the High Contracting Parties." Both the United States and Afghanistan are High Contracting Parties of the Geneva Conventions.
		Article 17 of the Third Geneva Convention provides that POWs shall not be "exposed to any unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind" for their refusal to provide information beyond their name, rank, serial number, and date of birth.
	hrw.org /press/2002/01/us012802-ltr.htm (1339 words)

	Report on Terrorism and Human Rights - e (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the case of international armed conflicts in particular, both the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions of 1949 contain extensive and specialized provisions addressing the circumstances under which prisoners of war and civilians may be interned or detained and the manner in which their internment or detention must be monitored.
		[350] With regard to prisoners of war, Articles 21, 118 and 119 of the Third Geneva Convention permit the internment of prisoners of war until their repatriation at the “cessation of active hostilities” or the completion of any criminal proceedings or punishment for an indictable offense that may be pending against a prisoner of war.
		The Convention constitutes a whole and if some of its essential provisions are neglected, the whole of it is jeopardized.” See, e.g., ICRC Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention, supra note 350, at 546.
	www.cidh.oas.org /Terrorism/Eng/part.e.htm (2671 words)

	Does Human Rights Law Apply to Terrorists? - Middle East Quarterly - Fall 2004
		The Third Geneva Convention explicitly states that parties need not apply it to all conflicts, especially when the foes are not parties, and when enemies do not abide by its terms.
		The ensuing murkiness is precisely why the Third Geneva Convention demands that a "competent tribunal" determine the status of prisoners where there is doubt as to their proper status.
		The terms of this convention are expansive and seek to prevent unnecessary hardship to civilians in occupied territory.
	www.meforum.org /article/651 (4695 words)

	Crimes of War Project > Iraq Special Edition
		She pointed out that a key concern of the Convention was to prevent prisoners from being put in danger, and said that footage of Iraqi soldiers voluntarily surrendering might lead to future reprisals against them or their families on the grounds that they were traitors.
		Although the United States says that the Geneva Conventions are not technically applicable to detainees from the war in Afghanistan or the wider campaign against terrorism, the U.S. government has pledged to abide by the main humanitarian provisions of the Convention.
		Technically, not all violations of the Geneva Conventions are “war crimes” – that determination is reserved for serious breaches of the treaty.
	www.crimesofwar.org /special/Iraq/brief-pow.html (1051 words)

	The Logical Nexus Between The Decision To Deny Application of The Third Geneva Convention To The Taliban and al Qaeda
		As “The Third Geneva Convention of 1949 relative to the Treatment of Prisoners ofWar [hereinafter the Third Geneva Convention or GC3].
		That, of course, triggers the requirements of Geneva Convention Article 5 for a competent tribunal to determine status, and mandates treatment as a POW until the tribunal is held.
		Convention, until such time as their status is determined by a competent tribunal.
	lawofwar.org /logical_nexus_between_the_decisi.htm (7839 words)

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		And having applied the third Geneva Convention to the Taliban individuals simply make a determination that having applied the provisions of the third Geneva Convention, these individuals do not meet the requirements of the third Geneva Convention and therefore are not POWs.
		The present convention should apply to the persons referred to in Article IV from the time they fall into the power of the enemy until their final release and repatriation.
		So that every detainee in Iraq was covered by one of two Geneva Conventions: if they were prisoners of war, they were covered by the third Geneva Convention; if they were civilians, they were covered by the fourth Geneva Conventions that deals with the protections of civilians during times of armed conflict.
	www.virginia.edu /uvanewsmakers/newsmakers/grahamde.html (3460 words)

	Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
		For this purpose, each of the Protecting Powers may, either at the invitation of one Party or on its own initiative, -propose to the Parties to the conflict a meeting of their representatives, and in particular of the authorities responsible for prisoners of war, possibly on neutral territory suitably chosen.
		The amounts due to the prisoner or received by him as advances of pay, as working pay or derived from any other source; the sums in the currency of the Detaining Power which were taken from him; the sums taken from him and converted at his request into the currency of the said Power.
		A prisoner of war undergoing confinement as a disciplinary punishment, shall continue to enjoy the benefits of the provisions of this Convention except in so far as these are necessarily rendered inapplicable by the mere fact that he is confined.
	lawofwar.org /geneva_prisoner_war_convention.htm (16516 words)

	The Gonzales Indictment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Defendant GONZALES wrote that the Third Geneva Convention should not apply to members of the Taliban and Al Qaeda who were captured after the United States invaded Afghanistan in October 2001.
		Article 84 of the Third Geneva Convention provides that prisoners of war shall be tried in the same types of courts (military or civilian) as members of the armed forces of the Detaining Power.
		Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions prohibits “the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.”
	www.gnn.tv /headlines/headline.php?id=834 (1147 words)

	POW TV - Why Rumsfeld should be careful about lecturing Saddam about the Geneva Conventions. By Jack Shafer
		The "insults and public curiosity" language sounds archaic, but it wasn't that long ago prisoners of war were routinely dragged through the streets by their captors in shackles, ridiculed and often beaten—a fate far worse than being videotaped in a compromising position after surrender.
		The Geneva Conventions must be understood as a human rights treaty, say Byers, created to protect individuals and not the state that signed it.
		Under Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention, military tribunals—not Donald Rumsfeld—should determine which prisoners should be prosecuted as criminal suspects and which should be accorded prisoner of war status.
	www.slate.com /id/2080616 (928 words)

	Violating the Geneva Convention, by TrogL - Democratic Underground
		The four Geneva Conventions, drawn up in 1949, and ratified by most countries, specifically and dogmatically direct the identification, housing and treatment of people caught up in war.
		Under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, prisoners of war are entitled to be visited by international monitors in a private setting.
		This violates Article 26 of the Third Geneva Convention - "Account shall also be taken of the habitual diet of the prisoners...Prisoners of war shall, as far as possible, be associated with the preparation of their meals;...they shall be given the means of preparing, themselves, the additional food in their possession.
	www.democraticunderground.com /articles/02/01/28_geneva.html (2193 words)

	Prisoner of War Protection Act of 2003
		(3) The Third Geneva Convention mandates that prisoners of war must at all times be treated humanely, and that the willful killing, torture, or inhuman treatment or willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health are `grave breaches' of the Convention.
		(16) Other nations have not absolved Iraq of its state obligations under the Third Geneva Convention arising from the First Gulf War and other sources, and the torture and inhuman treatment of United States prisoners of war during the First Gulf War are, in any event, a `non-absolvable liability' of the state of Iraq.
		In this Act, the term `Third Geneva Convention' means the Geneva Convention of 1949 relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
	www.theorator.com /bills108/hr2224.html (874 words)

	World war Two - Geneva Convention - Quick Quiz
		The second Geneva Convention extended provision to those wounded at sea.
		The third Geneva Convention was concerned with prisoners of war.
		The USSR was one of the 46 countries that signed the third Convention
	www.historyonthenet.com /WW2/genevaconventionquickquiz.htm (162 words)

	Report on Terrorism and Human Rights - o
		It is also augmented by the grave breach provisions of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I, including Article 129 of the Third Geneva Convention, Article 146 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and Article 85 of Additional Protocol I, which require states parties,
		These provisions ensure that prisoners of war or internees are able to exercise their rights both in the country of detention or internment and, particularly in the case of prisoners of war, in his or her country of origin or domicile.
		With regard to recourse to competent courts or tribunals, certain provisions of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I prescribe specific review mechanisms that must be made available to persons protected under these treaties under certain circumstances.
	www.cidh.oas.org /Terrorism/Eng/part.o.htm (1594 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wall Street Journal makes the interesting point that it is a violation of the Geneva Convention to interrogate enemy prisoners at all-- whether using force or not.
		Under the Geneva Convention, soldiers are not to be asked about past or present military operations.
		But of course the Third Geneva Convention does not apply to anyone who was not captured in uniform (loosely speaking-- an "Al Qaeda" T-shirt would suffice).
	www.rasmusen.org /w/04.05.18b.htm (487 words)

	International Humanitarian Law - Third 1949 Geneva Convention
		Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
		In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following
		The present Convention is established in English and in French.
	www.icrc.org /ihl.nsf/7c4d08d9b287a42141256739003e636b/6fef854a3517b75ac125641e004a9e68?OpenDocument (17421 words)

	Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They shall, however, receive as a minimum the benefits and protection of the present Convention, and shall also be granted all facilities necessary to provide for the medical care of, and religious inistration to, prisoners of war.
		A fine which shall not exceed 50 per cent of the advances of pay and working pay which the prisoner of war would otherwise receive under the provisions of Articles 60 and 62 during a period of not more than thirty days.
		The present Convention replaces the Convention of 27 July 1929, in relations between the High Contracting Parties.
	www.unhchr.ch /html/menu3/b/91.htm (16450 words)

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