Sentences with phrase «on civilian casualties»

A few independent organizations, including the United Nations, have published their own reports on civilian casualties in Afghanistan, but only for illustrating broad trends.

John Bohannon's freely available story in this week's Science contains new data on civilian casualties in Afghanistan that were provided exclusively to the magazine:

One current challenge his team is working on is, «How do you take a lot of reporting on civilian casualties in a certain area and then make it into a map - based Web site that both provides a lot of information and is actually a research tool — but doesn't do it in such a way that you basically scare people away from the issue» because it's too complicated or horrific, Bromley says.

Agha's torture is one of many such cases recorded by Mariner for a recent report on civilian casualties of war.

It's notoriously difficult to collect real data on civilian casualties.

If you can't name him right away, check Google... for reliability use Google to find out a report made public by the Johns Hopkins Universiity Blloomberg School of Public Health about the estimated figures on civilian casualties during the Iraq invasion... Just so you be aware that we too in America have our «Hitler», so publicly paraded in San Francisco, Rome and other places in the world during the height of the Iraqi invasion and make your own conclusion...

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Additionally, Iraqi forces have opted to use slower tactics focused on cordoning off and clearing one neighborhood at a time in order to minimize civilian casualties.

«The warning will probably suffice in dissuading the Assad regime from conducting another mass terror, mass casualty attack on civilians using chemical weapons,» Hof wrote on Tuesday.

Since that shift, there's been a significant spike in both civilian casualties and insider attacks; on Oct. 19, the increasingly - emboldened Taliban virtually wiped out a 60 - man Afghan National Army unit like it was nothing.

As reports of civilian casualties mount, we see that, just as Jesus warned, human attempts to «root out evil» on our own, by force, result in the destruction of innocent lives.

One could of course make the argument that limited civilian casualties would be tolerable (assuming adherence to the principles of discrimination and proportionality) to the extent that the air campaign proves successful in forestalling widespread and systematic attacks on civilians.

While parts of this logic make sense in the abstract, and do make an attempt to come to grips with the unusual nature of the threat posed by terrorism, the rationale conforms neither to the experience with drone attacks to date (which have incurred heavy civilian casualties) or to the efforts of other countries, such as Israel (more on this below), to respect the imminence restraint.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

The Labour leader said: «Whether it's the lack of a strategy worth the name, the absence of credible ground troops, the missing diplomatic plan for a Syrian settlement, the failure to address the impact on the terrorist threat, or the refugee crisis and civilian casualties, it's become increasingly clear that the prime minister's proposals for military action simply do not stack up.»

The vote does not compel EU member states to act but it does increase pressure on Riyadh, in the wake of criticism from the UN and growing international alarm over civilian casualties in Yemen.

Allowing so called «rebels» to leave certain territory in order to avoid civilian casualties and further destruction became a norm in Syrian civil war, at least on SAA and Russian side.

«He also expressed concern over the risk of the conflict escalating further and the danger of further civilian casualties on both sides.»

[28][29] Five days later, he defected to the Liberal Democrats on 10 December 2001, citing his disagreements with Labour whips over his opposition to military action in Afghanistan and the resulting civilian casualties.

Giving the figures on 2017 attacks and its casualties, the lawmaker said: «357 civilians were killed during 55 attacks.»

Of course, the organization in the best position to directly record civilian casualties is the military itself, with nearly 150,000 observers on the ground witnessing the violence every day.

Following on from the several civilian casualties during a mission in Nigeria, the ethics of the Avengers is put into question, and they're posed with the idea of being Government run, to cut down on the collateral.

With three months to go before his enlistment period ends and he returns to civilian life, Montgomery is redeployed to the casualty notification team under the formidable command of Captain Tony Stone, played by Woody Harrelson: they will be a two - man outfit whose job is to show up in uniform at the houses of next of kin and inform them that their sons and husbands and wives and daughters have been killed on active service.

But, as RBSS and others has cautioned, civilian casualties have been high and the fighting goes on.

His violent behavior still seems to be condonable though, as evidenced in the dozens of on - screen and off - screen shootings, hard - hitting hand - to - hand confrontations and car chases — all of which place no value on the lives of innocent background civilians who become collateral casualties amidst the mayhem.

Cory Doctorow commented pretty extensively on what this means, here: Amazon and Macmillan go to war: readers and writers are the civilian casualties

Medina successfully mixes suspense with disturbing glimpses of civilian mine casualties and a fascinating primer on armaments.

This includes data visualizations from civilian casualties in the drone war, video documentation from acts of terrorism, tracking the impact of invasive species on local ecosystems and crime scene studies from mass shootings.

And the IHL concept of proportionality — that attack on a military target is permissible even if there will be civilian casualties as long as the civilian casualties are «proportional» to the military value of the target — is expressly utilitarian and inconsistent with Kant.

At the Chatham House conference, there were several panelists that were quite open that the value of human dignity required a human in the loop on such a momentous decision as who to kill that the ban should be in place even at a time when fewer civilian casualties would result from use of autonomous weapons.

While a utilitarian would be focused on whether civilian (and military) casualties would be less if autonomous weapons were used, a Kantian would object to the removal of humans from the lethal decisionmaking altogether.