Sentences with phrase «armed conflicts not»

In case of armed conflicts not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply the prohibitions and restrictions of this Protocol.

In IHL, Common Article 3 to the Geneva Conventions uses the concept of «armed conflict not of an international character», but does not define that term further.

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«It is an outrage that some nations would not only trade with such a regime, but arm, supply, and financially support a country that imperils the world with nuclear conflict,» Trump said.

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I was not referring only to halal slaughter, indeed, I was mentioning HERE the only justification for armed conflict within Islam.

If that support ceased, perhaps armed conflict would not even be needed to end the present state of affairs....

Johnson focuses on four aspects of contemporary armed conflict that, while not unprecedented, have become special concerns: the legitimacy of intervention, the place of noncombatants, the significance of cultural differences, and procedures for dealing with war crimes and achieving reconciliation after conflict.

Although this scenario might sound painfully familiar, the year in question is 1095, not 2004; the leader is Pope Urban II, not President George W. Hush; and the call to arms initiates not a war in Iraq but the long and bloody conflict between Islam and the West know as the Crusades.

[God does NOT change, and God Himself oft instructed our true Israelite forebears in armed conflict, including annihilation of the ungodly.

In addition, there is not simply divergence, but conflict and armed struggle.

Sentry is an organization based out of the Enough Project and Not on Our Watch and its mission is to «disrupt and dismantle the networks of military officers, government officials, businessmen, arms dealers, bankers and other enablers who benefit financially and politically from Africa's deadliest conflicts,» according to its website.

«He's not afraid of conflict or confrontation and at the same time he's going to put his arm around you.»

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.

Selling weapons to an aggressive country you might be involved in an armed conflict with doesn't make sense.

Which invalidates the Fort Hood shooting as an armed conflict, it being an isolated act of violence, and thus the military personnel involved were not combatants.

So to answer your question, military personnel are not combatants when they are not actively engaged in an «armed conflict» as defined above.

Also, the definition above actually contains a third exception on its face: members of the armed forces of a nation that is not a party to the conflict.

While the UK is not currently - outside of Syria - engaged in armed conflict, war is ever present in the vernacular of Brexit - supporting politicians and newspapers.

However, this does not apply to ordinary disturbances, such as riots, but only to armed conflict (such as civil war):

When the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions made inquiries into drone attacks in 2002, and again in 2005, the U.S. responded by claiming that such incidents do not fall within the jurisdiction of the rapporteur, given that the applicable law is the international law of armed conflict.

As long as tensions do not escalate, there should be no risk of armed conflict.

«We have to be able to maintain full stability and the full confidence of the people who work for us, not least because we're in a very dangerous armed conflict,» he told the Sunday Times newspaper.

That money will not be used to fight terrorism but to arm the terrorists in preparation for the conflict that lies ahead.

It is also angling for the document to only apply during peace time and not during armed conflict.

They should not be looking at a nation where thousands are killed by armed conflict every year and declaring it safe.

While all combatants are obliged to comply with the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, violations of these rules shall not deprive a combatant of his right to be a combatant or, if he falls into the power of an adverse Party, of his right to be a prisoner of war, except as provided in paragraphs 3 and 4.

«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.»

Having re-read the answer, one part stands out as extremely weak - you gave zero evidence that «Conflict escalation» is an actual reason and concern for not arming.

Options of returning to conflict and armed action must remain on the table «or diplomacy won't work», said Paddy Ashdown.

And when I say «war» in this post, I mean also militarism, the culture of war, the armies, arms, industries, policies, plans, propaganda, prejudices, rationalizations that make lethal group conflict not only possible but also likely

«The bottom line is the United States does not want conflict in outer space,» says Frank Rose, assistant secretary of state for arms control, verification and compliance, who has led American diplomatic efforts to prevent a space arms race.

Although droughts can lead to violence, such as in urban areas; this was found not to be the case for rural areas, where the majority of armed conflicts occurred where food crops were abundant.

While dangerous pathogens will not mobilise armies nor annex land, they can, if unchecked, inflict human costs rivalling those of armed conflict.

But despite the tension surrounding the matter, exacerbated by the recent release of a Kremlin document suggesting the possibility of armed conflict within a decade, there is growing evidence that any disputes will be worked out through cooperation and not confrontation.

This more complex picture shows that during and after the height of a conflict, sexual andother types of violence are not solely perpetrated by armed combatants, but also by husbands and other civilian men.

But polio doesn't balk in the face of armed conflict.

A group of aid workers tries to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone: Sophie (Thierry) is a newcomer, she wants to help; Mambrú (Del Toro) has seen it all and wants to go home; Katya (Kurylenko) once wanted Mambrú; Damir (Stukan) wants the war to end, and B (Robbins) doesn't know what he wants.

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So this begs the question, how come the international legal order is not predicated on the need to address such crimes even though many are expressly prohibited in international law and all of them within armed conflicts?

What's the use of education if it becomes a weapon to destroy others through armed conflicts, technology and desire to control and dominate; as well as a weapon to destroy ourselves — and I mean not just through suicidal attempts.

Terrorism and armed conflict depend on the ability to see fellow humans not as individuals, but as members of a group with the presumed characteristics of that group.

However, since the new generation of politicians is the first one that hasn't been exposed directly to the shock of war and the atomic explosion, for the first time after WWII, Japan seems inclined to reconsider its constitutional provisions regarding the involvement in armed conflicts.

Investments in foreign issues could be affected by other factors not present in the United States, including expropriation, armed conflict, confiscatory taxation, and potential difficulties in enforcing contractual obligations.

Artist Statement «Armed conflicts affect its inhabitants, especially the younger generations, as millions of children do not attend school because they are destroyed or closed, marginalizing their present and destroying...

Some of these find a weak relationship, some find no relationship, and collectively the research does not conclude that there is a strong positive relationship between warming and armed conflict (Theisen et al., 2013).

That means sourcing raw materials that don't fund armed forces or violent conflicts, from mines that treat people like the human beings they are.

[U] nder customary international law as it presently stands, a State is not deprived of immunity by reason of the fact that it is accused of serious violations of international human rights law or the international law of armed conflict.

He said the doctrine of combat immunity should be «narrowly construed» and not «extended from actual or imminent armed conflict» to earlier failures.

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.

As the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court made clear in relation to allegations of war crimes violations on the part of the United States in Iraq, the threshold of whether civilian casulaties are «clearly excessive» to the military advantage to be gained is a high one, the mere «death of civilians during an armed conflict, no matter how grave and regrettable, does not in itself constitute a war crime».