What does that mean, outrages upon human dignity ?

Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions bars, among other things, "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment."

"Outrages upon personal dignity is something like Abu Ghraib or parading our soldiers in Vietnam before the television cameras," he said.

It was also mentioned in the 1949 Geneva Conventions (but demurely, as an "outrage upon personal dignity" in civil wars).

And their impersonal detachment, their very disregard of us, was like a chilly blast upon human dignity.

Beatrice knew this was the truth, so she fell back upon dignity.

However, the judges did not find that there was sufficient evidence to try him for torture and outrages upon personal dignity.

It prohibits murder, hostage-taking, "outrages upon personal dignity" and extrajudicial executions.

That provision bars, among other practices, "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment."

Common Article 3 prohibits "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment" of detainees.