Sentences with phrase «on civilian protection»
From 2003 - 2007 he was Chief Scholar at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva, leading policy work on civilian protection and political mediation.
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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.
With all the billions spent on your «Defense», you're telling me that the protection of the homeland rests on the shoulders of civilians?
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.
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.
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-...]
«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.
The focus is on protection more than destruction: saving civilian - filled buildings from demolition by the invaders, or indeed from your own stray shots is more important than either eradicating the bugs or keeping your own mechs alive.
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
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.
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.