Prepared By: Veronica Mihajlovic Diana Sellars Aaron Wilson GM520 Legal‚ Political‚ and Ethical Dimensions of Business Table of Contents Introduction 1 United States Constitution 1 Geneva Convention 2 Third Convention 3 Enemy Prisoner of War 3 Retained Personnel 3 Fourth Convention 3 Protected Persons 3 Guantanamo Bay 4 Memorandums 5 Abu Ghraib 6 Uniform Code of Military Justice 9 Conspiracy 9 Cruelty and Maltreatment 9 Assault 9 Indecent Acts with Another
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Humanitarian ‘Multinational’ Organisation Home base: Geneva‚ Switzerland Orgn Values – Neutrality‚ Independence‚ Discretion & Humanism Total Workforce – (2008) over 14‚000 over 100 nationalities Until recently – ICRC is very Swiss ‚ very Genevoise Expatriate – open to all nationalities but 93% is westerners (1992) Changing expatriate composition – expatriates number increasing – Africa‚ Asia & Latin America HR Policy – recruitment from Geneva – sent to field with ‘learning by doing’‚ operate under
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athlete‚ Louis Zamperini. Louis Zamperini is used to show how Japanese officials deprived Prisoners of War‚ of their human rights. In making effort to deny prisoners their human rights‚ the Japanese officials obeyed by the provisions of the 1929 Geneva Convention. Just prior to the war‚ the Japanese sought to get control of Nauru because of its natural resources. The Japanese were cornered with “fifty thousand tons of high-grade phosphate that lay under the feet of the grass-skirted natives”(pg 93)
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and biological weapons‚ blinding laser weapons and anti-personnel mines. IHL is part of international law‚ which is the body of rules governing relations between States. International law is contained in agreements between States (treaties or conventions)‚ in customary rules‚ which consist of State practise considered by them as legally binding‚ and in general principles. IHL applies to armed conflicts. It does not regulate whether a State may actually use force; this is governed by an important
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How is the Term "Armed Conflict" Defined in International Humanitarian Law? International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Opinion Paper‚ March 2008 The States parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventions have entrusted the ICRC‚ through the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement‚ "to work for the understanding and dissemination of knowledge of international humanitarian law applicable in armed conflicts and to prepare any development thereof"1. It is on this basis that
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Armed Conflict Coursework 2011/2012 A) Explain and critically discuss the differences in the scope and applicability of Common Article 3 to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Article 3 is applicable in case of armed conflicts that are not of an international character‚ but that are in the territory of one of the Contracting Parties to the 1949 conventions. It also applies to circumstances where the conflict is within the State‚ between the Government and the rebel forces or between the rebel forces themselves
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Power after September 11 in the United States (2004)‚ World Report‚ Human Rights Watch. Report 2004‚ War on Global values (May 26‚ 2004)‚ Amnesty International. International Convention for the Supression of the Financing of Terrorism‚ United Nations General Assembly‚ Resolution 54/109‚ December 9‚ 1999. Four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their two Additional Protocols of 1977.
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was formed in 1864 with the origin from the Red Cross and the Red Crescent movements. The body was formed and established in the Swiss land (Switzerland) so as to be a custodian of the International Humanitarian Law. The ICRC has its headquarters in Geneva in Switzerland (Kim & Schneider 2009). Through independency‚ impartiality and neutrality‚ ICRC slowly became an international organization now with over two hundred states being members. ICRC CULTURE ICRC is very distinct organization
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In the beginning of the documentary it showed an experiment that was conducted in 1961‚ by a psychologist from Yale University named Dr. Stanley Milgram. The purpose of this “obedience study” was to observe an individual’s willingness to inflict pain when ordered to do so. The participants were required to use a machine to shock other person in a different room. What the participants did not know that the shocks were fake and the victim was an actor. Despite the fact that the participants knew that
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Handbook of International Humanitarian Law (New York‚ 2008) Gardan‚ Judith Gail ICRC‚ Commentary on IV Geneva Convention (Geneva‚ 1958) Rieff‚ David International Treaties Geneva Convention I (1949) Geneva Convention II (1949) Geneva Convention III (1949) Geneva Convention IV (1949) Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I (1977) Geneva Convention Additional Protocol II (1977) United Nations Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel (1994) UN Security Council Resolution 1296
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