Sentences with phrase «of civilian protection»

Despite the resolution allowing the AU to increase its forces from 8,00 0 to 17,731 it denied AMISOM the right of civilian protection despite pressure from the African Union.

Of course this may change, but if it doesn't, then what is required to achieve the mandate of civilian protection and protection of civilian populated areas is that Gaddafi's forces must not be allowed to take the towns and cities he has lost.

It is all deeply tragic, and we might well feel right to be very pessimistic about the politics of civilian protection.

So we can talk of limited success in developing new norms and practices of civilian protection, and we can celebrate a new international court for such atrocities.

Not exact matches

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

The initiative might well succeed should the commission fail, but the people of Florida shouldn't have to wait two more years for protection from weapons of mass destruction that serve no redeeming civilian purpose.

The leader of Catholics in England and Wales has said the protection of civilians must not be compromised... More

The leader of Catholics in England and Wales has said the protection of civilians must not be compromised at any point in the battle to retake the besieged Iraqi city of Mosul.

«It is vital that protection of civilians, respect for humanitarian conventions and support for those fleeing their homes are at the forefront of this operation.

From the time she denounced Britain's participation in World War II as a girl (because it was plain to her, just months out of her teens, that Britain would be carrying out deliberate attacks on civilians), through her widely publicized opposition as a young don to Oxford's awarding an honorary degree to Harry Truman (on the ground that «having a couple of massacres to his credit» disqualifies a man for public honors), to her recent arrests in her seventies for participation in pro-life actions parallel to those carried out by «Operation Rescue» in the United States (because she found the life of a conceived child as worthy of protection and respect as any other), her life recalls John Paul II's injunction: «Always seek the truth; venerate the truth discovered; obey the truth.

Wars are fought with increasing disrespect for international law established for protection of the civilian population, and war preparations are made with the same disrespect for international law and plain decency.

With all the protection of civilian government that any citizen would get regardless of the delusions they suffer from, of course.

With all the billions spent on your «Defense», you're telling me that the protection of the homeland rests on the shoulders of civilians?

There will be 20 - 30 members of Kakuma's civilian protection group, as well as LWF officials and armed Kenyan police.

Unless these two sets of interests can be permanently aligned in global society, there will continue to be a sort of global postcode lottery that determines the protection you get as a civilian.

In the meantime, the significant expansion of humanitarian aid in recent years is another sign of very practical progress in civilian protection.

NATO, for example, informally expanded its mandate during the Libya intervention in 2011 from the protection of civilians to the removal of Colonel Gaddafi.

As far as I know (and I may be wrong) there is no allegation that the civilians in Western Libya are currently in need of protection.

Civilian protection may be achieved by a stalemate in Libya with Gaddafi in control of the areas he currently controls and the rebels in control of the areas they control.

The U.N. mission will need to coordinate closely with other U.N. agencies and nongovernmental organizations, which will be working on the reintegration process and the protection of civilians.

Dr Hugo Slim is a leading scholar in humanitarian studies with particular expertise in humanitarian ethics, the protection of civilians, conflict resolution, and business ethics.

Some of the objectives of the training as highlighted by the organizers include; to enlighten participants on the legal framework for international human right laws and humanitarian principles, to improve the capacity of law enforcement agents in identification, protection issues in Nigerian human right context, to build the capacity of participants to appreciate their roles in protecting the rights of the civilians.

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.

Securing peace therefore requires the coordination of all security - related government institutions across ministries, in partnership with the UN, and in line with the protection needs of civilians.

Recent partnership between the Armed Forces of Nigeria and the National Human Rights Commission (NHCR) to improve the mainstreaming of Human Rights and civilian protection into Counter Insurgency Operations in the north east is yielding positive results, as troops gathered together today at the reception hall of Dujima Hotel in Maiduguri to receive training on -LSB-...]

A legislative body could expand the concept of arms in «common use» by permitting (or at least not prohibiting) civilian ownership, and if it reached a point where the courts found it to be «common,» then it would fall under Second Amendment protection.

«I think basically, essentially this is a humanitarian mission and it is protection of the civilian population which is top of the order book.

«Civilians are consistently bearing the brunt of this conflict and I urge the Government of Nigeria to step up the protection...

«As I said when I received Amina Ali Nkeki, the rescued Chibok girl, our determination and commitment to the protection of our Children is unshaken, this Government is resolute in our efforts at rescuing all the missing Chibok Girls, the recent rescue of Amina Ali Nkeki and Sarah Luka by our gallant Soldiers and the Civilian JTF is a testimony to our unwavering resolve at defeating Boko Haram terrorists.

According to a short section of the 200 - page book that accompanied the governor's speech Wednesday, the college «will be the first civilian degree - granting college to integrate emergency preparedness, security and counter-terrorism studies through interdisciplinary programs that involve law, public and international affairs, information technology, cyber engineering, critical infrastructure protection and science.»

«The Coalition of CSOs on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Nigeria undertakes review of the ongoing - war on terrorism to ascertain maximum adherence of the military to the rules of engagement by the Nigerian military, enforcement of fundamental human rights of civilians and protection of man's dignity and respect for person and to ensure that the activities of non-state actors are in conformity with the general principles and purposes of the United Nations and other conventions» rights.

While being transported through the scenic rural areas of Washington, Carden's men attempt to spring him out of their protection, and they almost succeed until the U.S. Marshal, knowing he is likely to die but not wanting a dangerous killer like Carden free, hands over custody to a civilian, a high school teacher named Ray Keene and his son, Chris (Anderson).

Dark Rose Valkyrie puts you in the shoes of Asahi Shiramine, who was newly chosen to lead a new team within ACID known as Special Force Valkyrie, meant to be dedicated to the eradication of the Chimera and protection of civilians and Japan.

After Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz was forced to resign from his post after a video surfaced of him likening the agency's approach to the fossil fuel industry to the crucifixion of Turkish civilians during the Roman Empire, the Sierra Club hired him to become its Senior Campaign Representative for the «Beyond Coal» initiative.

It stressed that «[w] hile international humanitarian law is designed, inter alia, to provide protection for civilian populations in a conflict zone -LSB-...], it does not -LSB-...] provide for international protection to be granted to certain civilians who are outside both the conflict zone and the territory of the conflicting parties», as is the object of Directive 2004/83 (para. 23).

Geneva Conventions (to improve, in time of war, the condition of the wounded and sick on the protection of civilians, the treatment of prisoners, the status of refugees) and additional protocols

The National Fire Protection Association estimates home fires kill 2,500 annually (accounting for 93 percent of all civilian structure fire deaths), which breaks down to an average of seven daily.

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Ninety - two percent of all civilian structure fire deaths result from house fires, according to the National Fire Protection Agency.

Drunk driving laws are strictly developed for the protection of civilians from injury or death which may be caused by individuals who drive while intoxicated.

While it is recognizing that there are no fully autonomous armaments yet, technology is moving in that direction and the issue has been central to discussions on the modernization of weapons, ethics in the protection of civilians and respect for the lnternational Humanitarian Law (IHL).

In his tenth report on the protection of civilians in armed conflict issued on 22 November 2013, United Nations Secretary - General has called for international action to address the concerns over fully autonomous weapons or «killer robots.»

CHARLI CARPENTER is an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts — Amherst and the author of two books on the protection of civilians.

These and other systems with high degrees of autonomy must be examined in order to understand how meaningful human control is exercised and how civilians can be afforded adequate and lasting protections.

Griffith, who is Shadow Wales Minister and Vice-Chair for the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Weapons and Protection of Civilians, urged the government to support the call for a pre-emptive and comprehensive ban on fully autonomous weapons, achieved through an international treaty.

The UN Secretary - General made his first remarks on the fully autonomous weapons in his November 2013 report on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, calling for international discussions to begin immediately and «not once the technology has been developed and proliferated» and urging that any process «be inclusive and allow for full engagement by United Nations actors, ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] and civil society.»

This would be the most far - reaching achievement for the CCW ever, with the greatest positive impact not only on protection of civilians, but also on how wars are fought and the way in which we think about our collective humanity.

Docherty's report Losing Humanity outlines how fully autonomous weapons could violate the laws of war and undermine fundamental protections for civilians.

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