Sentence examples for Common article from inspiring English sources

Common Article 3 does not define exactly what constitutes violations of personal dignity or degrading treatment.

Common Article 3 guarantees humane treatment to combatants seized during wartime.

Common Article 3, which prohibits cruel treatment and humiliation, is an inflexible standard.

Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions bars, among other things, "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment".

(a) Common Article 3 Standards as a Minimum Baseline.

The new legislation makes a list of nine "serious violations" of Common Article 3 federal crimes.

It has been a common article of clothing in most parts of the world since antiquity.

The provision, known as Common Article Three, guarantees rights to prisoners.

Congress, he said, could "help by defining our obligations" under the provision, known as Common Article Three.

It also might expose Administration officials to charges of war crimes: if Common Article Three became the standard for treatment, then it might become a crime to violate it.

To emphasize his position, he took out a copy of the text of U.S. Code 18.2441, the War Crimes Act, which forbids the violation of Common Article Three, and read from it.