Sentences with phrase «out of armed conflict»

Switzerland is home to a largely citizen - sourced militia that supports the stance of «armed neutrality» — the country has stayed neutral and out of armed conflict since 1815.

Not exact matches

Former President Barack Obama, as well as France and Germany, opposed arming Ukraine out of concern that it may inflame the conflict.

Scholars of the doctrine point out that, when appropriately used, armed combat aims to bring about a peaceful and just social order for both sides of the conflict.

This story will go on for ever until the date life ends on Earth... this ever lasting conflict was planted there because ever since it started it created jobs for war arms manufacturers, it has created good business revenue for war and arms lords, made a good business for those con - fis - cat - ing Palestinians lands & olive trees, turning them in to residential areas for imported Jews, gradually removing Palestinians of all faiths further out of range every time...?

For example, the functional paralysis of a middle - aged man's arm expressed the immobilizing conflict between the unconscious desire and the fear of striking out in rage at a person on whom he felt passively de-pendent.

Sentry is an organization based out of the Enough Project and Not on Our Watch and its mission is to «disrupt and dismantle the networks of military officers, government officials, businessmen, arms dealers, bankers and other enablers who benefit financially and politically from Africa's deadliest conflicts,» according to its website.

ICRC's recent publication, Violence and the Use of Force, spells out the legal framework for managing policing and restraint around situations other than armed conflict.

Turkey's military coups 1993 — Claims of a «covert coup» intended to prevent a peace settlement with the Kurdistan Workers» Party (PKK) 1980 — Military coup following armed conflict between right - wing and left - wing groups in the 1970s 1971 — Military coup known as the «coup by memorandum», which the military delivered instead of sending out tanks 1960 — Coup by group of young military officer outside chain of command, against the democratically - elected Democrat Party

Armed conflict has kept developers out of these forests, resulting in vast swathes of intact rainforest and a high diversity of frogs.

The wildlife populations of this spectacular landscape have been subject to heavy poaching during various periods over the past decades, and conservation efforts in the area, carried out thanks to longstanding EU financial support through PDRN, ECOFAC and ECOFAUNE projects, have been negatively impacted by the past three years of armed conflict.

But despite the tension surrounding the matter, exacerbated by the recent release of a Kremlin document suggesting the possibility of armed conflict within a decade, there is growing evidence that any disputes will be worked out through cooperation and not confrontation.

Essentially a band of freedom fighters, Mireles and his soldiers penetrate the Mexican landscape town by town, running the cartels out of them one by one via armed conflict, local intelligence and forced confessions.

He's hired by a cruel Mexican governor (Pedro Armendáriz) to carry out an arms deal that takes him to Texas, where his refusal to help hunt Apaches puts him in conflict with a U.S. Army major (Gary Merrill)-- and into the orbit of the major's unhappy wife (Julie London).

I'm convinced that there's already a latent melancholy in the picture, but armed with just a gloss of Camp David, the Israeli / Egyptian conflict, suddenly all of the picture's travails — being shut out of the Cairo film festival and, at the last minute, the Abu Dhabi fest as well — take on this terrible weight of irony and hopelessness.

In order to hack into, what else, a giant battleship, the two young recruits are first dispatched to a nearby planet with a lavish casino run by rich arms dealers — who, it turns out, profit from supplying weapons to both sides of the galaxy's seemingly eternal good - versus - evil conflict.

Half of out - of - school children globally live in settings of armed conflict, and learning outcomes in these contexts are among the worst in the world.

Shatzkin, in his write, does, in fact, spell out the «perception of conflict,» as we call it in news shops, in this sort of arm's - length hiring of outside author «services» in order to charge writers:

The complaint describes how Afrimex, which traded in the minerals coltan and cassiterite (tin ore) throughout the conflict in the DRC from 1996 onwards, made tax payments to the Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie - Goma (RCD - Goma), an armed rebel group with a well - documented record of carrying out grave human rights abuses, including massacres of civilians, torture and sexual violence.

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).

As a purely legal matter, I found particularly striking his finding that the CAT presumes a general, territorially unlimited obligation of states not to commit torture which also applies in armed conflict — an obligation not spelled out in the Convention, but implied in it.

I point out that though the APs are among the most widely ratified treaties, the list of States not parties to them is practically a list of countries that have been involved in major armed conflicts over the last 30 years.

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.»

Regardless of what side of the arguments you are on in the conflicts that there are in the world, the people in our armed forces truly believe in protecting us from any harm these troubles may cause and they deserve our sincere thanks for setting out to do that.