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Many experts argue that international law, including the Geneva Conventions, requires that child prisoners be separated from adults and receive education while in detention. U.S. federal law has similar requirements and defines a juvenile as under 18. The Pentagon, which classifies only those younger than 16 as juveniles, has never denied that some Gitmo inmates under 18 were not segregated. Many of these youths were subject to the same conditions and interrogations as the adults. Some still at Gitmo have claimed through their lawyers that they have been beaten or abused...
...dispatched a team of investigators to the area, including experts from the organization's headquarters in Geneva, but they have been unable to find any evidence of contaminated poultry in the village that may have triggered the human infections. "If we can't find an external source that explains all seven confirmed cases, then we have to go with the theory that this is human-to-human," says Peter Cordingley, the spokesperson for the WHO's Western Pacific regional headquarters. Human-to-human transmission within a family is believed to have occurred at least twice before, in Thailand and Vietnam...
...when he flew to his father, who was on a state visit to Burkina Faso, and received his blessing for the initiative. "I will see if we can be friends," he quotes his father saying over a lamb and rice lunch. Gaddafi dispatched foreign intelligence chief Musa Kusa to Geneva in mid-April for a meeting with top MI6 and CIA officials, who traveled secretly to Tripoli in September for a face-to-face with Gaddafi himself. The Libyans agreed in principle to throw its WMD projects wide open to an MI6-CIA team of technical experts. But besides...
...shore up their battered reputation with the international community, which can stymie fund raising among the Tamil diaspora and stop rebel sympathizers from traveling. Last Friday government spokesman Rambukwella told TIME that Norway, which has been acting as mediator, has scheduled fresh talks between Colombo and the L.T.T.E. in Geneva on May 10. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, executive director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives in Colombo, says the situation merely "smells of war." Maybe. But it also smells nothing like peace...
...Geneva, unhcr spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis called the planned change "an unfortunate precedent, being for the first time, to our knowledge, that a country with a fully functioning and credible asylum system, in the absence of anything approximating a mass influx, decides to transfer elsewhere the responsibility to handle claims made actually on the territory of the state." Coming amid tension with Indonesia over the granting of three-year visas to a group of independence activists from West Papua province, the policy shift has brought accusations of appeasement. But it's also raised questions about Australia's commitment...