Sentences with phrase «non-international armed conflicts»
This means that from that date, AP II (which applies to non-international armed conflicts) will apply to the conflict in Afghanistan (i) in so far the conflict takes place between the forces of the government of Afghanistan and insurgents; and (2) in so far as the Taleban and other insurgents «exercise such control over a part of [Afghanistan's] territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations and to implement this Protocol.»
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But the Syrian government is deeply suspicious of international agencies and is determined to limit the presence of international NGOs like Medecins sans Frontieres, Oxfam, Care, Save the Children and the International Organisation of the Red Cross, who one would normally see operating en masse at this point in a non-international armed conflict.
The Supreme Court in its judgment of 23 October 2013, and in an enhanced bench of seven judges, unanimously held that the definition of terrorism in the Terrorism Act 2000 was intended to be wide and could thus include acts by insurgents against the armed forces of a state anywhere in the world in the context of a non-international armed conflict.
Recent international humanitarian law such as the Geneva conventions draw a sharp distinction between international armed conflict (IAC) and non-international armed conflict (NIAC).
The question for the CJEU now was whether to equate the concepts of an «internal armed conflict» from Directive 2004 / 83 / EC and of a «non-international armed conflict» from IHL for the purpose of interpreting EU law, and consequently for the application of the law of the Member States in conformity with EU law.
First, the Federal Prosecutor characterized the situation in Afghanistan as a non-international armed conflict.
It is, however, among the report's least surprising positions that should be seen as most significant: like its past two predecessors, the Trump Administration has embraced the notion that the United States is engaged in a singular, global non-international armed conflict against a shifting set of terrorist groups.