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1. Geneva Conventions

The Geneva Conventions And Their Additional Protocols Are A Series Of Treaties Enumerating The Laws Of Armed Conflict That Date From 1864 To 1977. The Geneva Conventions Deal With The Treatment Of Prisoners Of War - Civilians And Sailors In Times Of Conflict. The Conventions Are The Foremost - But Not The Only - International Documents Governing The Conduct Of Warring States. The Most Widely Adhered To Conventions Are The Four Geneva Conventions Of 1949 And Their Two Additional Protocols - Which Regulate Most Aspects Of Armed Interstate Conflict And Address The Need To Accord Humane Treatment To Combatants In Noninternational Conflicts Through The Conventions' Common Article 3. The Second Additional Protocol Of 1977 Addresses More Aspects Of Noninterstate Conflict - Including The Noninvolvement Of Civilians. The Provisions Of The Four Geneva Conventions Of 1949 Have Been Ratified By 192 States And Are Accepted As Customary International Law. The Two Additional Protocols Have Been Ratified By More Than 160 Countries - But Not By The United States.Collective Political Action By A Section Of Society Outside The Realm Of Established Parties - Interest Groups - And Power Elites. These Goals Are Often Adopted By Parties And Interest Groups - And They Can Be Co-opted By Power Elites.Continental Shelf Dispute - Norway Claims Fishing Areas Around Svalbard Islands.1945-46: International Military Tribunal Tried High Nazi Officials For Actions Committed During World War Ii That Contravened The Accepted Laws Of War. Among The Practices Condemned Were Plotting And Waging Aggressive War - Using Slave Labor - Looting Occupied Countries - And Abusing And Murdering Civilians (Especially The Jews) And Prisoners Of War. The Allies' Decision To Try Major Axis Officials For War Crimes Had Been Announced In October 1943 - When The American - British - And Russian Foreign Ministers Met In Moscow. Planning For The Trials Began Soon After V-j Day - And The Tribunal Opened In Nuremberg - Germany - On November 20 - 1945 - Before A Board Of Distinguished Judges From The Allied Countries. Adolf Hitler - Heinrich Himmler - And Josef Goebbels Had Committed Suicide By That Time - But Hermann Goering - Joachim Ribbentrop - Wilhelm Keitel - Alfred Jodl - Ernst Kaltenbrunner - Julius Streicher - Hjalmar Schacht - Martin Bormann (In Absentia) - And Sixteen Others Were Tried One By One For Individually Specified Crimes.

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