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Your search for: geneva AND convention AND 1949


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  • Geneva Conventions
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    GENEVA CONVENTIONS series of treaties signed (1864 1949) in Geneva, Switzerland, providing...civilians in wartime. The first convention, signed by 16 nations, covered...conventions were adopted in 1949 to strengthen and codify earlier...
     
  • Hostage
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...hostages were executed throughout Europe by the German authorities in an attempt to crush resistance movements. The Geneva Convention of 1949 forbade entirely the taking of civilian hostages. Criminals, especially when confronted by police, sometimes...
     
  • Internment
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...United States detained persons of Japanese ancestry and German or Italian citizenship in relocation centers . The Geneva Convention of 1949 on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War provides for the unrestricted departure of enemy aliens...
     
  • Prisoners of War
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...honored the Geneva Convention throughout the...worst. The 1949 Geneva Convention The changed...was signed at Geneva in 1949 and subsequently...respect the Geneva Convention in the Korean...parties to the 1949 Geneva Convention...
     
  • Military Government
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...violated the rules laid down by the Hague Conventions. Allied Military Government (AMG...experiences of World War II, a new convention covering military occupation was signed in Geneva in 1949. In recent years, the most prominent...
     

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