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Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons
Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons Article I The States Parties to this Convention undertake: a. Not to practice, permit, or tolerate the forced disappearance of persons, even in states of emergency or suspension of individual guarantees; b. To punish within their jurisdictions, those persons who commit or attempt to commit the crime…
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Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons
Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons Article I The States Parties to this Convention undertake: a. Not to practice, permit, or tolerate the forced disappearance of persons, even in states of emergency or suspension of individual guarantees; b. To punish within their jurisdictions, those persons who commit or attempt to commit the crime…
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Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery SECTION I INSTITUTIONS AND PRACTICES SIMILAR TO SLAVERY Article 1 Each of the States Parties to this Convention shall take all practicable and necessary legislative and other measures to bring about progressively and as soon as possible the complete abolition or abandonment of the following institutions and…
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Geneva Convention (IV) 6
Geneva Convention (IV) PART IV EXECUTION OF THE CONVENTION SECTION I General Provisions Art. 142. Subject to the measures which the Detaining Powers may consider essential to ensure their security or to meet any other reasonable need, the representatives of religious organizations, relief societies, or any other organizations assisting the protected persons, shall receive…
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Geneva Convention (IV) 2
Geneva Convention (IV) CHAPTER VIII Relations with the Exterior Art. 105. Immediately upon interning protected persons, the Detaining Powers shall inform them, the Power to which they owe allegiance and their Protecting Power of the measures taken for executing the provisions of the present Chapter. The Detaining Powers shall likewise inform the Parties concerned…
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Geneva Convention (IV) 13
Geneva Convention (IV) CHAPTER III Food and Clothing Art. 89. Daily food rations for internees shall be sufficient in quantity, quality and variety to keep internees in a good state of health and prevent the development of nutritional deficiencies. Account shall also be taken of the customary diet of the internees. Internees shall also…
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Geneva Convention (IV) 13
Geneva Convention (IV) CHAPTER III Food and Clothing Art. 89. Daily food rations for internees shall be sufficient in quantity, quality and variety to keep internees in a good state of health and prevent the development of nutritional deficiencies. Account shall also be taken of the customary diet of the internees. Internees shall also…
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Geneva Convention (IV) 9
Geneva Convention (IV) SECTION III Occupied Territories Art. 47. Protected persons who are in occupied territory shall not be deprived, in any case or in any manner whatsoever, of the benefits of the present Convention by any change introduced, as the result of the occupation of a territory, into the institutions or government of…
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Geneva Convention (IV) 8
Geneva Convention (IV) PART III STATUS AND TREATMENT OF PROTECTED PERSONS SECTION I Provisions Common to the Territories of the Parties to the Conflict and to Occupied Territories Art. 27. Protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons, their honour, their family rights, their religious convictions and practices, and their…
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Geneva Convention (II) 2
Geneva Convention (II) Chapter VIII Repression of Abuses and Infractions Article 50 The High Contracting Parties undertake to enact any legislation necessary to provide effective penal sanctions for persons committing, or ordering to be committed, any of the grave breaches of the present Convention defined in the following Article. Each High Contracting Party shall…
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Geneva Convention (II) 3
Geneva Convention (II) Article 20 Parties to the conflict shall ensure that burial at sea of the dead, carried out individually as far as circumstances permit, is preceded by a careful examination, if possible by a medical examination, of the bodies, with a view to confirming death, establishing identity and enabling a report to…
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Geneva Convention (I) 5
Geneva Convention (I) Art. 37. Subject to the provisions of the second paragraph, medical aircraft of Parties to the conflict may fly over the territory of neutral Powers, land on it in case of necessity, or use it as a port of call. They shall give the neutral Powers previous notice of their passage…
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Geneva Convention (I) 3
Geneva Convention (I) CHAPTER III Medical Units and Establishments Art. 19. Fixed establishments and mobile medical units of the Medical Service may in no circumstances be attacked, but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the conflict. Should they fall into the hands of the adverse Party, their personnel…
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Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery
Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery Article 1. For the purpose of the present Convention, the following definitions are agreed upon: (1) Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised. (2) The slave trade includes…