Sentences with phrase «report on civilian»

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

These disturbing instances have coincided with a Human Rights Watch report released on Saturday saying that Turkish border guards are indiscriminately shooting at civilians trying to flee Afrin and returning the asylum - seekers.

Multiple civilians were also killed in more than 150 airstrikes in Idlib on Sunday, which Moscow neglected to report.

MOSCOW (AP)-- A new report released on Thursday condemned both Ukrainian authorities and separatist rebels for wide - spread torture and detentions of civilians in the country's east torn by a separatist war.

April 10 Bank of America Corp plans to stop lending to companies that make military - style firearms for civilians, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, making it the second major U.S. lender to address gun sales after the Florida high school shooting that left 17 dead in February.

The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilities in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China.

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...

ISIS militants massacred more than 200 civilians, according to a disturbing report, when they raided the small, mostly Kurdish town of Kobani on the Syrian border late last week.

The Iraqi Christian Relief Council reported on Twitter that: «Kurdish Peshmerga have been shooting indiscriminately... to make it appear as though the Iraqi Army is injuring civilians».

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.

A disturbing new investigation from the United Nations (UN) and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and first reported by Reuters, has determined that Syrian government forces used deadly chlorine gas during attacks on its civilians.

In contrast to the Franck report, the decision to drop the bomb on civilian populations was governed mainly by immediate military considerations.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

On Wednesday, the Air Force released a statement which said that it's «review of its reporting processes to civilian law enforcement in the Devin P. Kelley case has prompted immediate actions to correct reporting deficiencies and prevent future occurrences».

In contrast, about four - in - ten veterans (39 %) who reported that deployments had a positive or no impact on their marriage say they had problems re-entering civilian life.»

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) hit back today over media reports on Ministry of Defence (MoD) bonuses and accused the Conservatives of misrepresenting civilian defence staff to score political points.

A Civilian Complaint Review Board report on the use of Tasers by the New York Police Department was scrubbed of language highlighting a central finding in an earlier - circulated draft report: that in most Taser encounters reviewed, officers used the stun guns on unarmed people.

«Whilst we recognise the need to ensure the safety of the armed forces and civilians in conflict, it is very disappointing to see the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory report a rise in the number of animals it is using in scientific procedures year on year since 2009,» Kailah Eglington, Chief Executive of the Dr Hadwen Trust, told politics.co.uk.

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 groups conducted numerous attacks on government and civilian targets that resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries, widespread destruction, the internal displacement of approximately 1.8 million persons, and external displacement of an estimated 205,000 Nigerian refugees to neighboring countries, principally Cameroon, Chad, and Niger,» the report said.

Eighteen of the 20 uniformed and civilian employees whose laziness, incompetence and dereliction who were cited in the state IG's report for enabling two convicted killers to escape from Clinton Correctional Facility last summer are still on the job and won't be criminally prosecuted.

«On Sept. 12, 2016, we got an intelligence report by our civilian JTF in Gwange area in the town and we mandated them to arrest a woman who delivered a baby boy and came home without the baby.

«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 causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's 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 report recommends foreign policy follows five guiding principles: to actively work to protect civilians; to challenge abuses of humanitarian law and human rights; to deliver on policies like the Arms Trade Treaty which save lives through international agreement; to meet the challenges of the modern world, including new threats like terrorism; and strengthening multilateral institutions, with the UK taking the lead to reunite the UN.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office on Thursday released its first report on his office's role in reviewing, investigating and prosecuting cases in which police kill unarmed civilians.

Elsewhere in the Mail interview, which comes just days after a report claimed 655,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed since military action in March 2003, he criticised reconstruction plans as «poor, probably based more on optimism than sound planning».

Even more distressing is the Navy's report on its investigation into the collisions with civilian vessels this year in the Pacific theater by the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain.

Three other bills, requiring the Police Department to report certain data on the use of force and deployment of officers with substantiated civilian complaints, were expected to be adopted by the Council on Thursday.

Bratton said the report actually focuses on a pattern under his predecessor, former Commissioner Ray Kelly, of rejecting recommendations of harsh punishment from the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

The News on Monday reported that Art Palmer, 56, filed a grievance with the Civilian Complaint Review Board after he said he was surrounded by NYPD cops outside Macy's Herald Square store after making a legitimate purchase of shirts and ties on April 24.

The head of the sergeant's union took issue with a tweet by the Civilian Complaint Review Board on reporting unconstitutional searches.

As of 1997, significant pay differences existed between federally employed men and women in botany: The Commission of Professionals in Science and Technology's (CPST's) October 1998 edition of the Salaries of Scientists, Engineers, and Technicians reported that while the average salary for civilian botanists was $ 43,372, women took home an annual wage that was on average $ 7700 less ($ 39,664 vs. $ 47,385) than their male counterparts.

These fires destroyed more than 648 structures, killed six civilians, burned more than 384,803 acres and have caused at least $ 538 million in property losses,» according to a preliminary report on the season by the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control.

Kill focusing on drone operators is something we haven't seen before and it's shocking because you'd expect it to be one of more difficult jobs considering all the reports of civilians and children getting caught in the crossfire.

During the blackout there was great fear of a blood bath as the Assad regime could act with impunity and continue its bombardment of civilians, as no longer would they have the world's eyes on them and atrocities could not be reported and transmitted to a global audience.

Several school officials reported difficulties conducting school activities such as open houses and sporting events because each base had a limit on the number of security passes for civilians.»

All eight of the charter schools now on military bases are behind base security gates, according to the GAO report, «requiring civilians to complete a background check and show a pass.

«You can feel the difference on regular roads at civilian speeds,» Edmunds reports.

Many Lenders Offering Military Loans Many folks have taken dings on their credit reports, service members, veterans and civilians alike.

Many folks have taken dings on their credit reports, service members, veterans and civilians alike.

The relentless onslaught against the groundbreaking but controversial work of Leigh Day and Public Interest Lawyers on behalf of Iraqi civilians went into overdrive last month when David Cameron joined the fray and «ordered ministers», as it was reported, to prevent lawyers pursuing claims against veterans.

The Independent Civilian Review into Matters Relating to the G20 Summit released its final report on Friday, and is available for download here.

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.»

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.»

Highlights Monitor the progress of various clients and institute adjustments when necessary Effectively communicate with parolees, fellow parole officers and representatives of the court Compile and analyze various court reports Ensure full compliance with State regulations and standard operation procedures of the facility Apply strong problem solving skills in different situations Assist parolees in securing jobs and other necessary resources to transition into civilian life Strong public relations skills Proficient in Microsoft Office Experience Probation Officer 1/1/2010 — Present Central Offender Services — Augusta, GA Manage the cases of several different parolees simultaneously Ensure that parolees have access to needed resources to make a successful transition out of the system Maintain an in - depth understanding of the criminal justice system and current and pending laws Hold periodic meetings with paroles to ensure that they are meeting all requirements for their parole Analyze various court reports to determine appropriate courses of action with clients Receive and address parolee issues to help keep them on the right path

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