using women and children as shield to
protect weapons of war is evil in any civilized society.
Not exact matches
On December 7th the Saïd Business School's Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation hosted a seminar entitled «
Protecting Civilians: Oxford and Oxfam working together on the ethics
of war,
weapons and humanitarian aid.»
In fact,
war in the Congo has directly resulted in crisis level food insecurity (= increased demand for meat from killing forest animals including bonobos), countless numbers
of displaced people who pose added burdens on demand for food, rife levels
of corruption and mismanagement, immeasurable but vast numbers
of weapons and munitions distributed across the country, large - scale break down
of traditional taboos that may have locally
protected some populations
of bonobos, and much, much more.
In a country where where
weapons of war outnumber its citizens, it seems irresponsible for companies to not
protect their workers.
Tony D'Costa
of Pax Christi Ireland warned that the
weapons cross an unacceptable threshold that is most dangerous to our shared morality: «Autonomous
weapons have nothing good to offer us as they threaten global peace and international security» and «undermine the whole landscape
of those basic universal human values which
protect innocent civilians from harm in times
of war or other conflict.»