Geneva Conventions

The Geneva Conventions, which is for the treatment not only of uniformed but also enemy combatants, prohibit such treatment as well.

CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2009 2009

That same year, a 128-nation conference in Geneva promulgated another in a set of rules—the so-called Geneva Conventions—on the humane treatment of prisoners of war.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

Quibbling with the Geneva Conventions is the wrong signal, by the wrong administration, at the wrong time.

Questions For The Interrogators 2007

But, if the Geneva Conventions is the international standard by which warfare would be conducted and prisoners cared for, so if the United States unilaterally moved forward, I mean, what would be the international response?

CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2006 2006

Basically it's because the Geneva Conventions are a written treaty that apply between nations that have signed it or countries or armed forces that agree to follow them in combat.

YID With LID 2010

And he's "liberated" us from that constitutionally-enacted international treaty called the Geneva Conventions as well as other statutory prohibitions against torture.

Think Progress 2009

MCCAIN: Senator Graham and Senator Lieberman and I had worked very hard to make sure that we didn't torture any prisoners, that we didn't mistreat them, that we abided by the Geneva Conventions which is -- applies to all prisoners.

CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2008 2008

The narrator's sister and father were critically wounded by weapons banned under the Geneva Conventions.

I Am a Chechen! by German Sadulaev, translated by Anna Gunin – review 2011

By putting them at Guantanamo, the United States, meant to be beyond the jurisdiction of both the Geneva Conventions and U.S. courts.

Carlos Harrison: Unhappy Anniversary, Guantanamo! Carlos Harrison 2012

By putting them at Guantanamo, the United States, meant to be beyond the jurisdiction of both the Geneva Conventions and U.S. courts.

Carlos Harrison: Unhappy Anniversary, Guantanamo! Carlos Harrison 2012