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Geneva Convention (which the U.S. openly ignores). Today, Guantanamo Bay holds prisoners who have been held for six years and never charged with a crime! It is a violation of both domestic and international law, and that's why the Bush Administration chose to kidnap and imprison these people on non-U.S. land -- it was a way to attempt to avoid adhering to U.S. laws establishing the basic rights of those charged with criminal acts. (Yes, even criminals have basic rights, like the right to legal representation and the right to know what crime they're being charged with.) The behavior of the U.S.

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Iraq is, itself, a weapon of mass destruction that is being used in clear violation of the geneva convention, and that will create lingering radiation throughout the Iraqi nation for generations to come. Depleted uranium is not at all selective in who it radiates. By its very nature, it is a weapon of mass destruction. It's all the more ironic, it seems, since Bush's promised WMDs never showed up in Iraq in the first place -- so the U.S.

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With respect to safety, the geneva convention of August 1949, an international agreement on the protection of civilians during armed conflict, expressly prohibited deliberate destruction or pollution of agriculture or of supplies of food and water. These broader meanings derived from work in international development, where it was necessary to distinguish the physical sensation of hunger (which can be temporary or voluntary), from the chronic, involuntary lack of food that results from economic inequities, resource constraints, or political disruption.

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The first geneva convention was drawn up in the late nineteenth century, and concerned only the sick and wounded in war. It has been revised several times since to accommodate new wartime conditions. genocide The deliberate destruction of an entire race or nation. The Holocaust conducted by the Nazis in Germany and the Armenian massacres in Turkey are examples of attempts at genocide. glasnost A Russian word meaning "openness," which describes the policy of Mikhail Gorbachev, premier of the Soviet Union.

Red Cross, International An international organization, founded under the terms of the first geneva convention. Its original duty was to care for those who were wounded, sick, or homeless in wartime. Today, it also attends to victims of natural disasters. red tape Administrative procedures, especially in a bureaucracy, that are marked by complexity and delay: "Red tape delayed his passport." referendum A vote by the general public, rather than by governmental bodies, on a bill or some other important issue; a plebiscite.

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The first geneva convention was drawn up in the late nineteenth century, and concerned only the sick and wounded in war. It has been revised several times since to accommodate new wartime conditions. genocide (jEN-uh-seyed) The deliberate destruction of an entire race or nation. The Holocaust conducted by the Nazis in Germany and the Armenian massacres in Turkey are examples of attempts at genocide. glasnost (glahs-nuhst, glas-nost, glaz-nost) A Russian word meaning "openness," which describes the policy of Mikhail Gorbachev, premier of the former Soviet Union.

Red Cross, International An international organization, founded under the terms of the first geneva convention. Its original duty was to care for those who were wounded, sick, or homeless in wartime. Today, it also attends to victims of natural disasters. red tape Administrative procedures, especially in a bureaucracy, that are marked by complexity and delay: "Red tape delayed his passport." referendum (ref-uh-ren-duhm) A vote by the general public, rather than by governmental bodies, on a bill or some other important issue; a plebiscite. (See under "American Politics.") Refugees.

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