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Endorses the framework Fundamental Rights Empowerment Exercise (FREE) for all armed

intervened countries which are in war and are being deprived of their basic fundamental rights
and its four pronged approach which is:

a) Fundamental rights should be given based on the International Humanitarian Law which
would aim to:
i. Set rules for humanitarian reasons to limit the effect of US invasions in Iraq and
Afghanistan;
ii. It would protect people who are not or are no longer participating in the hostilities
and restricts the means and methods of warfare;
iii. It would protect the basic fundamental rights of the no longer hostilities in the
war;
b) Rights of sick and wounded would be safeguarded also based on the International
Humanitarian Law which would:
i. Recognize the definition of the rights of sick and wounded as they are people who
are, because of trauma, disease or other physical or mental disorder or disability,
in need of medical assistance which covers equally new-born babies, maternity
cases and other persons in immediate need of medical assistance;
ii. Protect the sick and wounded in armed conflict as it was the founding principle of
the 1864 Geneva Convention;
iii. Construct health clinics and health camps in the stations of civilians to ensure the
right to life of innocent civilians;
c) Empowerment of the rights of prisoners of war which would aim to:
i. Recognize the definition of prisoners of war as combatants who have fallen into
the hands of the enemy, or specific non-combatants to whom the status of prisoner
of war is granted by international humanitarian law;
ii. Recognizes prisoners of war as those who are:
i. Members of the armed forces of a party to the conflict, including members of
militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces (this includes
members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or
authority not recognized by the Detaining Power);
ii. Members of other militias or other volunteer corps that belong to a party to the
conflict, provided that such groups that are under responsible command, have
a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance, carry arms openly and
conduct operations according to the law of armed conflict;
iii. civilians who accompany the armed forces provided they are authorized by
the armed force they accompany;
iv. members of crews of merchant marine and civilian aircraft of a party to the
conflict who do not benefit from more favourable treatment under
international law;
v. participants in a levée en masse; and
vi. the military wounded, sick and shipwrecked who fall into the hands of an
enemy
iii. Provide a wide range of protection for the prisoners of war as stated in the third
Geneva Convention;
d) Exercise the protection and empowerment of civilians, including those in occupied
territory as stated in the International Humanitarian Law which would aim to:
i. Protect the rights of civilians during armed conflict which is therefore a
cornerstone of international humanitarian law;
ii. Extend its protection to the public and private property;
iii. Identify and protect particularly vulnerable civilian groups such as women,
children and the displaced;

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