Sentence examples for Two geneva from inspiring English sources

Every missile shot by Hamas is a blunt violation of two Geneva Convention articles: shooting missiles from inside civilian population centers, and shooting them indiscriminately at Israeli population centers.

We see film of diplomats scurrying and hear about the two Geneva Conventions (1929 and 1949), in which the signing countries laid out the rules governing prisoners of war.

Mr. Berezovsky is under investigation by the Swiss prosecutor's office on evidence that he used two Geneva companies to channel revenue out of Russia from Aeroflot, the national airline, in which he owns a stake.

On the Continent uniformity between the French and the German approach was first achieved at two conferences held at The Hague in 1910 and 1912 and finally by two Geneva conventions of 1930 and 1931 on uniform laws for drafts, promissory notes, and checks.

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What is the connection between the "two Genevas" - the one concerned with nuclear talks with Iran and the one concerned with forming a fully empowered political body to achieve the transition from the current regime in Damascus to a new system of government?

It would "go into hibernation", says one Geneva official, and the multilateral trading system might wither.

The four Geneva Conventions signed in 1949 were intended to avoid the mass abuses of civilians and of military prisoners that took place during World War II.

The four Geneva Conventions that are in effect today — covering the treatment of the wounded on land and at sea, prisoners of war, and civilians in time of war — were drafted in 1949, in the aftermath of the Second World War.

But these were narrowly drawn, endorsed by a smallish number of countries, and comprehensively ignored in the second world war, as they had not been in the first.Today the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, with 188 signatories, together with the Genocide Convention of 1948, are among the most widely ratified international treaties.

Even if Mr Pinochet really was fighting a civil war, as he claimed, the four Geneva Conventions make it illegal in an internal conflict for a government to murder or torture anyone not taking active part in hostilities, who has laid down their arms or is sick, wounded or in detention.