Hull Stop the War Coalition

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Geneva Conventions turn 60 years old

Today the Geneva Conventions turn 60 years old. Despite the fact that 194 states have ratified them, it still faces a struggle for respect. (news.bbc.co.uk)

More than 300 UK children a day are being put on to the DNA database, around one in six are likely to have never been convicted of any crime. (telegraph.co.uk)

Sibel Edmonds offers details of Turkey’s covert operations in U.S. (reporter.am)

Another U.S. Missile Kills at Least 10 in Pakistan Tribal Area (nytimes.com)

University researchers get Sequoia e-voting machine, reverse engineer ROM, demonstrate vote-count altering hack (theregister.co.uk)

Nosocomial infections are infections which are a result of treatment in a hospital or a healthcare service unit, but secondary to the patient's original condition.
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