Sentences with phrase «armed groups»

Then there are the country's other armed groups.

During conflict, schools are often destroyed or become unsafe because they get occupied by armed groups or become a target of violence and conflict.

But I think what we see in this film is that when armed groups rise up and they're operating outside the law, you can't control where they go or what happens.

This is only the latest in the alphabet soup of armed groups in Eastern Congo (ADFL, UPC, RCD, FDLR, ALIR, CNDP, and so on ad nauseam).

The UN Group of Experts on the DR Congo leaked an addendum to their report in June in which they alleged that Rwanda is providing extensive support to M23 and six other armed groups in Eastern Congo.

Divisions within the Nigerian polity have seen a spike in the clamour for a fundamental restructuring of the country to make it a true federation and end institutionalised injustice: some fringe groups insist on outright secession, while the truce brokered with armed groups in the Niger Delta region, shaky at best, has virtually broken down.

In the years that followed, armed groups from both sides of Colombia's civil war have intensified their incursions in pursuit of their cut of the profit, including the introduction of illicit crops such as coca, causing terrible and widespread devastation.

All panelists agreed that keeping killer robots in the hands of responsible governments and out of the hands of non-state armed groups will be challenging if not impossible.

The unprecedented US$ 23.7 million (RAND 255 million), three - year initiative will combat rhino poaching in Kruger National Park and test anti-poaching tactics that can be applied in other regions of Africa, where poaching can be a source of funding for armed groups.

Abba's lawyer, Clement Nakong, told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that Abba, who has been jailed since July 2015 in relation to his reporting on the regional armed group Boko Haram, could face the death penalty on the first charge and a maximum of five years in prison on the second charge at a sentencing hearing scheduled for April 24.

Article 1 of Additional Protocol II of 1977 to the Geneva Convention applies to «armed conflicts -LSB-...] which take place in the territory of a High Contracting Party between its armed forces and dissident armed forces or other organised armed groups which, under responsible command, exercise such control over a part of its territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations and to implement this Protocol» (para. 1).

These could come from armed groups such as the ELN, or one of the many right - wing and criminal groups involved in the illicit drug trade and other forms of transnational organised crime that plague the country.

The UN Security Council recently passed a resolution paving the way for the imposition of asset freezes and travel bans on companies that support armed groups in eastern Congo via the illicit mineral trade.

There is a direct causal link between the metals trade in eastern DRC and atrocities perpetrated by armed groups against Congolese civilians.

Design and operation of a security mechanism with mobile rapid intervention capacity to detect, deter, disrupt, and stop armed groups involved in poaching and other illegal natural resource exploitation

While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a police officer takes action to protect his child and the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.

Known as the conflict minerals provision, Section 1502 requires US - listed companies that use conflict minerals — tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold — to determine whether their mineral purchases inadvertently fund armed groups in the DRC or surrounding countries.

In an effort to reinforce the value of Canadian citizenship, proposed amendments would enable the government to revoke Canadian citizenship from dual citizens for membership in an armed force or organized armed group engaged in armed conflict with Canada, and deny citizenship to permanent residents for the same reasons.

«Heinous crimes are being committed by various armed groups, including murder, rape, kidnapping, pillaging, and the destruction of houses.

Any potential peace agreement with the FARC therefore raises a number of questions: What will happen to all those other armed groups who operate in Colombian territory and across the borders?

According to President Akufo - Addo, countries such as Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin have joined Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram, with the leaders of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso, known as the G5 du Sahel, launching a multinational force to fight armed groups in the Sahel region

It has boosted the power of illegal armed groups, deeply undermined the effectiveness of international aid, and weakened both the legitimacy of the government and its capacity to act.

The legislation, aimed at breaking the links between the vast mineral wealth in the DRC and violent armed groups who prey on and profit from the region's mineral trade, has already changed the way that many companies view their supply chain and has catalyzed important reforms in the Great Lakes region.

The conflict minerals provision has begun to establish much needed transparency and scrutiny of Congo's mineral sector whose opacity has for too long benefitted predatory armed groups.

By Majeed Dahiru There are about 20 armed groups operating in Nigeria, necessitating a string of military operations and exercises in about 30 out 36...

Enough aims to counter rights - abusing armed groups and violent regimes that are fueled by grand corruption, crime and terror, and the pillaging and trafficking of minerals and other natural resources.

Reconstruction remains slow more than eight months after the brutal armed group was pushed out of the Iraqi city.

Archbishop Sako responded to the letter and said: «Our Christian community in Iraq has endured massacres, atrocities and other human rights abuses by the terrorist armed group calling itself the «Islamic State» (IS), for the reason of their Faith... we ask your Highness to encourage the international community to preserve the lives and dignity of the huge number of people affected by this disaster.»

Over the course of three seasons, the crew also questioned American Imperialism when the crew arms a group of vulnerable primitive aliens with flintlock rifles, possibly sparking generations of conflict, and one cast member even references botched foreign policy «of the early 20th century.»

In 2012, shortly before Hugo Chávez was re-elected president of Venezuela, I interviewed members of colectivos, pro-government armed groups in Caracas.

@gerrit: There are indeed many similarities to the Irish - vs English case: A different religion of the colonizers; a history including a period of not - genocide - but - not - incredibly - far - from it; and the fact that Irish armed groups never (to my knowledge) targeted Protestants from other countries.

Población local activism flourished throughout the 1970s and 80s, supported by the Vicariate of Solidarity — progressive branches of the Catholic Church — internationally funded NGOs, left - wing political parties, and radical armed groups (such as the FPMR and the Lautaro Youth Movement).

In southern Colombia, armed groups exert strong social control over large areas, impeding any information, including on human rights violations, from leaving the region.

This is especially so in the case of Syria, with multiple non-state armed groups interacting with each other, multiple foreign state actors, and no legitimate government.

In a situation where the state has failed and armed groups proliferate, events on the ground could escalate in such a way, which no doubt is one of the factors prompting the speedy assertion of Russian military control in Crimea.

Stories about whole people / groups who were disarmed and suffered massively being unable to resist armed groups or government violence (there's plenty of those throughout human history).

«Very big armed groups are being formed in Sadr City, backed up by the Interior Ministry, to kill great numbers of the citizens of Baghdad once the curfew is lifted.

The proliferation of armed groups means that it is often impossible at any given point to tell who is «winning», or what the future course of the war is likely to be.

Focusing in on M23, it's fair to say that the group has a narrower social base than previous armed groups.

Without the FARC's protection, civilians» lives are at risk if they are exposed to violence from any of the other armed groups still active in Colombia.

Third, the Bolivarian Forces of Liberation (FBL), a left - wing armed group primarily functioning in the Venezuelan states of Apure, Barinas and Zulia might intensify the use of violence (for more information on the various types of violent non-state actors present in the Colombian - Venezuelan borderlands see my recent article in Perspectives on Terrorism).

Despite these criticisms, Duterte's regime, confronted by another challenging issue, has extended another form of «martial law» by declaring war against the Islamist armed group Maute, aligned with the Islamic State, in the city of Marawi.

Corruption breeds unequal societies, renders vulnerable groups prone to human trafficking, as well as recruitment into armed groups and militia.

The shipwreck occurred off the town of Sabratha, a hub for illegal migration to Europe that has seen violent clashes between rival armed groups since Sunday.

It shares a northern border with Mali, which has long battled armed groups.

A Turkish restaurant came under attack late on Sunday as heavy gunfire erupted in the capital of Burkina Faso, which has seen a surge in violence by armed groups over the past few years.