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Geneva Convention of 1864
The Geneva Convention of 1864, formally the Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, was signed at Geneva on 22 August 1864 by twelve states.
Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War (1929)
The 1929 Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, signed 27 July 1929, was the first detailed POW treaty, complementing the Hague Regulations; it banned reprisals and collective penalties and was replaced by the 1949 Third Geneva Convention.
Geneva Conventions
The Geneva Conventions are four 1949 treaties, core of international humanitarian law, protecting civilians, wounded and prisoners of war; signed by 196 states, expanded by Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005.
Geneva Protocol
1925 Geneva Protocol, signed 17 June 1925, in force 9 May 1926, bans use in war of chemical and bacteriological weapons; not development or possession; basis for BWC and CWC.
Gennady Yanayev
Gennady Yanayev (Геннадий Янаев), 1937–2010, USSR vice president and nominal head of the GKChP, claimed the acting presidency during the failed August 1991 coup against Gorbachev; amnestied 1994.
Genocidal rape
Genocidal rape: use of rape as an act of genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention. Landmark ruling: Akayesu (ICTR, 1998), first international genocide conviction and first ruling that rape can constitute genocide.
Genocide Convention
Genocide Convention (Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide), UN treaty adopted Paris 9 December 1948, in force 12 January 1951; Article II defines genocide, 154 states parties, ICJ and ICC litigation.
Genocides in history
Genocides in history: episodes of group destruction named by Raphael Lemkin in 1944 and codified in the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, from the Holocaust to Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Darfur.
Genovese crime family
The Genovese crime family is one of New York's Five Families of La Cosa Nostra, founded as the Luciano family and renamed for Vito Genovese in 1957; known for secrecy, labor racketeering, and relative freedom from informants.
Gentner Drummond
Gentner Drummond is an American attorney and Republican politician who has served as Oklahoma's Attorney General since 2023, after a career as an Air Force pilot and rancher.
GEO Group
The GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections) is a Boca Raton, Florida-based for-profit operator of prisons, ICE immigration detention centers, and reentry services, with about 95 facilities, 76,000 beds, and $2.4 billion 2024 revenue.
Geoffrey Bowers
Geoffrey F. Bowers, New York lawyer at Baker & McKenzie whose 1986 AIDS discrimination complaint, one of the first in the US, won a record $500,000 NY human rights award in 1993 and inspired the film Philadelphia.
Geoffrey Cox (British politician)
Sir Geoffrey Cox KC, British Conservative barrister-politician; MP for Torridge and West Devon then Torridge and Tavistock since 2024; Attorney General 2018–2020; known for Brexit legal advice and large outside legal earnings.
Geoffrey Fieger
Geoffrey Nels Fieger, Michigan trial lawyer, Kevorkian defense attorney, and 1998 Democratic gubernatorial nominee; founder of Fieger Law in Southfield, known for the $144 million birth-trauma verdict and 2007 federal acquittal.
Geoffrey Howe
Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon (1926–2015), British Conservative chancellor of the Exchequer 1979–83 and foreign secretary 1983–89 under Margaret Thatcher; his 13 November 1990 resignation speech triggered the leadership challenge that ended her premiership.
Geoffrey Ma (马道立)
Geoffrey Ma Tao-li (馬道立), Hong Kong jurist and second Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal (2010 to January 2021), former Chief Judge of the High Court, Queen's Counsel, civil justice reform leader, Grand Bauhinia Medal recipient.
Geoffrey W. Crawford
Geoffrey William Crawford, born 1954, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Vermont, appointed by Obama in 2014 and its chief judge from 2017 to 2024.
Georg Konrad Morgen
Georg Konrad Morgen (1909–1982), SS-Sturmbannführer and SS judge, investigated corruption and unauthorized killings by SS members at Buchenwald, Majdanek, and Auschwitz, convicted commandants, sought Eichmann's arrest, and testified at Nuremberg and the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial.
George A. O'Toole, Jr.
George A. O'Toole, Jr. (born 1947) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Massachusetts since 1995, appointed by Bill Clinton.
George B. Daniels
George B. Daniels, born 1953 in South Carolina, is a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Clinton in 2000.
George C. Hanks, Jr.
George C. Hanks, Jr., also known as George Carol Hanks, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Texas since 2015.
George C. Steeh III
George C. Steeh III, also known as George Caram Steeh, III, is an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
George Conway
George T. Conway III (born 1963), American lawyer, Wachtell Lipton litigation partner, Paula Jones litigator, Lincoln Project co-founder, Society for the Rule of Law founder, and 2026 Democratic House candidate in New York's 12th District; ex-husband of Kellyanne Conway and prominent Trump critic.
George Cornell
George Cornell (George Myers, 1927-1966) was an English criminal and Richardson Gang enforcer, shot dead by Ronnie Kray at the Blind Beggar pub, Whitechapel, on 9 March 1966, leading to Kray's life sentence.
George Eacker
George I. Eacker, New York Republican lawyer, killed Philip Hamilton in a November 23, 1801 duel at Weehawken after a Park Theater confrontation; he died in 1804 around age 30.
George Floyd
George Floyd (1973–2020), Houston-raised Black American killed by Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin on 25 May 2020; death ruled a homicide; his killing sparked the largest US protest wave and George Floyd Square.
George Gascón
George Gascón, Cuban-born former San Francisco police chief and district attorney, served as Los Angeles County's 43rd DA from 2020 to 2024; his first-day reform directives, staff lawsuits, and 20-point 2024 defeat by Nathan Hochman defined his tenure.
George H. Wu
George H. Wu, born 1950 in New York, is a senior United States district judge for the Central District of California, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2007.
George Hodel
George Hill Hodel Jr. (1907–1999) was a Los Angeles physician who became a leading, never-charged suspect in the 1947 Black Dahlia murder of Elizabeth Short.
George Jackson (activist)
George Jackson (1941-1971), American prison activist and author of Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye, a leading voice of the prison movement, shot dead at San Quentin in 1971 during an alleged escape.