International Committee of the Red Cross

telecommunications network based in Canada. Governments have an eye on him, but brush off their concerns when Nortel drops the charges in exchange for a fine. As the governments focus elsewhere, Assange slips off to Sweden and begins a spiral of international controversy. By the year 2007, the website Assange is responsible for officially launches. With its first success of leaked information on Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, Assange knows there is no going back. WikiLeaks has taken hold, and…

Amnesty International publically denounced the treatment of the detainees in October 2004. A report from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), that occurred in 2007, revealed that the interrogation techniques used were torture. However, this information was not made public until March 2009 as the United States rejected…

Prison conditions are worsening all across the world, especially within African countries, such as Rwanda. Rwandan prisons have an unhealthy environment — lack of space, mistreatment, and neglect — for the inmates that are locked up. The effects of the destructive conditions that inmates experience range in severity, from infected feet to death. In addition, these problems are not recent occurrences; these complications have been around for over 20 years. By looking at this issue from an ethical…

types of hazards or ensuring the interoperability of communication during emergencies (Public Safety Canada, 2011b). This time, municipalities are mentioned as part of potential partners that also includes universities, the private sector, and international organizations (MREM, 2011). The federal government made some further changes to its emergency management policies in 2011. The government issued an official statement on Canada’s National Emergency Response System (Public Safety Canada…

1.1 Background The need for an international criminal court came about by the fact that international community did not have adequate instruments to punish those who committed serious international crimes. Abuse of human rights law at the international level went unpunished due to the lack of legal structure and therefore punishment for these international crimes was left to domestic courts. The problem with the domestic courts was that they were used as agents of the criminals. They were…

Torture as an Anti-Terrorist Strategy In 2005, the Detainee Treatment act was passed, which banned the military from engaging in torture as well as requiring the International Committee of the Red Cross to have access to prisoners being held by the U.S. government. In June of 2015, Senate voted to expand this law to prevent the military and all other government agencies from using torture during interrogations of prisoners, codifying a ban President Barack Obama issued by executive order…

Anyone who fought back against the Japanese were considered Chinese or terrorists and then they would either be killed or taking a work camp or death camp. In many cases if a random civilian would try to attack a soldier they would exterminate the person before they caused harm to a soldier (Chang2 199). In conclusion, the Japanese would interrogate anyone they encountered and would only harm the Chinese. There are no reports to date that the Japanese symbolized the Chinese. When Japan first…

It is difficult to comprehend that Adolf Hitler was not always an antisemite, right? Well, according to his autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf (My Struggle), it was not even until he moved to Vienna that he opened up to the idea of anti-semitism. That seems peculiar, considering the fact that today, Hitler is most famously known as the heinous totalitarian dictator of Nazi Germany, and the core of an immense amount of drastic atrocities, including the Holocaust. Born in Austria, Hitler grew…

the treatment of POW’s, Article 26, the food rations, and labour and article 53 about the legal and moral purpose of this issue and its strategic/security importance. Throughout, there will be many references to ICRC, which is the International committee of the Red Cross. Firstly, we need to define what a POW is. A POW is defined as a member of an armed force adding to a conflict, including militias or volunteer corps (ICRC, 1949 convention 3). They can be either in or outside of their own…

also causes “Drought”. According to the studies, along with the increase in precipitation global warming relocates the precipitation and the greatest hits of these drought conditions were Darfur and Niger in the African continent. The International Rescue Committee aided 84,000 Darfuri refugees in three camps in eastern Chad and offered services to 33,000 Chadians living nearby. The IRC runs schools, health centers and water and sanitation programs in the camps. The next piece is about the…