Sentences with phrase «armed conflict in»

Bukavu Official University, The situation of the Indigenous women on Armed Conflict in Western of DRCongo,

The 2014 experts meeting concentrated on the role played by autonomous weapons systems in situations of armed conflict in part because their possible use in law enforcement and other situations is seen as a matter better suited to the Human Rights Council.

«An armed conflict in space would be catastrophic for all players,» she added, «including neutral states, commercial actors and international civil society.»

The present crisis arising from armed conflict in the Middle East has led to vast population movements on a scale seldom seen since the Second World War.

Hence, as long as the government's armed forces are not involved, and as long as a certain threshold of intensity is not reached, there is no armed conflict in the sense of IHL.

Over the last 15 years, Global Witness has investigated the links between the lucrative trade in tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold and armed conflict in eastern Congo.

During the Gulf Oil Spill we reminded readers that while massive oil spills make all the headlines in the United States, in Nigeria large spills are tragically commonplace (photo above)-- so much so that it is one of the major factors behind armed conflict in the Niger River delta.

Following the armed conflict in the Donbass, Ukraine was cut off from half of coal and all of its anthracite extraction, dropping Ukrainian coal production by 22 percent in 2014.

In fact, climate change has the potential of igniting armed conflict in much of the Muslim world.

The kinds of natural disasters that global warming will create more of — droughts, cyclones, forest fires — seem to trigger armed conflict in countries that are already ethnically factionalized, he said.

As the Mobile World Congress opens in Barcelona on 16 February, Global Witness is calling on mobile phone manufacturers to audit their supply chains in order to exclude minerals financing the armed conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

All the hoses pass through drawings of black holes to connect to the other side of the paper creating a complex circulatory system that allude to the intricacy of the armed conflict in Colombia.

Baik Art presents Bearing Witness, a solo exhibition by Regina José Galindo, contemporary Guatemalan performance artist born in 1974, 14 years into the bloody, 36 - year armed conflict in Guatemala.

The hoses pass through the sheet onto the reverse side where there is another complicated system of hoses, both sides alluding to the interconnected intricacy of the armed conflict in Colombia.

This poster was produced by the Provisional Irish Republican Army during the period of armed conflict in Northern Ireland popularly known as «The Troubles».

Space and military law experts from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have joined forces to take the lead on understanding how our Earth - bound laws will be applied in times of armed conflict in outer space.

The massive destruction of cultural heritage during the Second World War prompted the adoption of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict in 1954 at The Hague in the Netherlands.

Indeed, armed conflict in that nation prohibits outside scientist from visiting to safely conduct any kind of field research.

To examine how the availability of food may have affected armed conflict in Africa, the study relies on PRIO - Grid data from over 10,600 grid cells in Africa from 1998 to 2008, new agricultural yields data from EarthStat and Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casualties.

Buratai identified Nigeria's weak industrial base, the effect of climate change on the environment and Nigeria's porous borders as some of the factors fuelling armed conflict in Nigeria.

«The Nigerian Army through this action want to assure the nation and international community that we shall not condone cases of violation of laws of armed conflict in the discharge of our constitutional responsibilities.»

Her current work is on migration and identity formation of Bengal «kayasthas», the practice of democracy in India, and the roots of long - term armed conflict in the frontier areas of India and Pakistan.

The admission by the UK government that the Saudi - led coalition used UK - made BL - 755 cluster munitions during the armed conflict in Yemen, comes months after Amnesty International and British media outlets reported that these weapons had been used in the country.

Some lack the necessary land or resources to produce crops and many farmers have been displaced by the armed conflict in the country.

It has been a terrible price, and here I think Magnes was eternally right: in the particular circumstances, the decision to establish a Jewish state was bound to bring armed conflict in a continuing spiral.

Sinn Fein has since ended it armed conflict in favor of having full representation (of course they never show up..).

Hence in social terms the disorderly turmoil of individuals pursuing conflicting and egotistical aims; and, on the national scale, the chaos of armed conflict in which, for want of a better object, the excess of accumulated energy is destructively released... «Idleness, mother of all vices.»

Some lack the necessary land or resources to produce crops and many farmers have been displaced by the armed conflict in the country.

The latest research has put the price tag for the War on Terror at an exorbitant $ 4 - 6 trillion, more than any armed conflict in U.S. history.

Israels problems are internal, not external, and none of the armed conflicts in the region are targetting them now that the Iran issue has been defused for the forseeable future.

However, Article 1 of Protocol I includes a clarification that it does apply to intra-state «armed conflicts in which peoples are fighting against colonial domination and alien occupation and against racist regimes in the exercise of their right of self - determination».

The armed conflicts in Syria can in many instances be traced back to lack of water for farming due to less water in the rivers of Euphrates and Tigris in combination with long and severe droughts.

Not exact matches

After discussing the arms sales, Trump suggested that the United States could soon extricate itself from Middle East conflicts after years of involvement in Iraq and Syria.

Sen. Mike Lee, R - Utah, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I - Vt., and Sen. Chris Murphy, D - Conn., introduced a bill in February to withdraw U.S. armed forces from the Yemen conflict, where they have provided limited intelligence and refueling for warplanes.

«And then we have a legal review that says that engaging this target comports with the laws of armed conflict and that engaging in these circumstances is permissible according to those laws, and once we've established all of those things we go to the government of Iraq and ask them for permission to strike that building, and they'll say yes or no, and they do say both, depending on the structure.

Armed flying drones have been taking to the skies in Afghanistan and Iraq for the better part of a decade, while Israel is currently using armed ground robots such as the Guardium, likely in its current conflict in Armed flying drones have been taking to the skies in Afghanistan and Iraq for the better part of a decade, while Israel is currently using armed ground robots such as the Guardium, likely in its current conflict in armed ground robots such as the Guardium, likely in its current conflict in Gaza.

The conflict in Ukraine also posed a huge stumbling block to de-escalation of tensions between Russia and the West, the report said, noting that a US decision to provide lethal arms to Ukraine would probably cement the current stalemate.

The United States, Britain and France have all participated in the Syrian conflict for years, arming rebels, bombing Islamic State fighters and deploying troops on the ground to fight that group.

Whether it's a mistake in armed conflict or in business, there are egos, lives and livelihoods at stake when decisions go awry.

The International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland, appears to be acting as a go - between for Bergdahl and his family, part of its mission is to protect victims of armed conflict and other violent situations and provide them with assistance.

Decades of armed conflict continue to undermine veterinary services in South Sudan.

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But in the absence of such means, the tradition of just war views armed conflict as an appropriate way to resist evil, protect innocent lives and restore just social relationships.

WHEREAS, conditions in various parts of the Muslim World have deteriorated dangerously due to the use of violence and armed struggle as a tool for settling conflicts and imposing one's point of view;

Electricity is on for four hours a day, water in many areas of Gaza is undrinkable and there have been reports of Hamas fighters being armed for further conflict.

This story will go on for ever until the date life ends on Earth... this ever lasting conflict was planted there because ever since it started it created jobs for war arms manufacturers, it has created good business revenue for war and arms lords, made a good business for those con - fis - cat - ing Palestinians lands & olive trees, turning them in to residential areas for imported Jews, gradually removing Palestinians of all faiths further out of range every time...?

YOU feel that the government has trampled your rights so severly that you think we should engage in armed conflict that pits Americans against each other and draws nothing but our own blood?

Johnson's thesis is that much of American literature and thought about war in the 20th century is of limited relevance to the typical forms of contemporary armed conflict and the changing shape of the international order.

«Recent UN figures show that there were at least 14,500 grave violations against children in armed conflict last year, including recruitment, sexual violence and abductions.»

The first, which we all know and long for, is that the very excess of destructive power placed in our hands must render all armed conflict impossible.