• Warren drew attention to the recent spate of civilian casualties in Yemen as a result of Saudi airstrikes against the region. (rt.com)
  • Is this man insane?US @CENTCOM chief Gen Votel: 'The U.S. should continue supplying fuel, intelligence & munitions to #Saudi Arabia for the war in #Yemen so we can influence Riyadh toward limiting and investigating Yemeni civilian casualties. (rt.com)
  • Speaking of the grave impact of the intensifying war on civilians, the High Representative said that according to the UN human rights office ( OHCHR ), from the beginning of the invasion in February 2022 to 18 June this year, there have been 24,862 civilian casualties in Ukraine, with 9,083 killed and 15,779 injured. (un.org)
  • The majority of civilian casualties have resulted from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas, she explained. (un.org)
  • The term "civilian casualties" is sometimes used in non-military situations, for example to distinguish casualties to police vs. to criminals such as bank robbers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Civilian casualties present particular difficulties. (wikipedia.org)
  • To make effective use of such statistics as there are about civilian casualties of war, it is necessary to be explicit about the criteria for inclusion. (wikipedia.org)
  • All too often, there is a lack of clarity about which of the following categories of civilian casualties are included in any given set of figures. (wikipedia.org)
  • Apart from a brief spike in 2011, the average number of UN-recorded civilian casualties per airstrike has fallen every year since. (truthout.org)
  • From 24 February 2022, which marked the start of the large-scale armed attack by the Russian Federation, to 1 May 2023, OHCHR recorded 23,375 civilian casualties in the country: 8,709 killed and 14,666 injured. (ohchr.org)
  • Since 2014, OHCHR has been documenting civilian casualties in Ukraine. (ohchr.org)
  • This may mean that conclusions on civilian casualties may be revised as more information becomes available and numbers may change as new information emerges over time. (ohchr.org)
  • This does not mean, however, that any attack that results in civilian casualties or damage to civilian objects is illegal. (lu.se)
  • The High Representative reminded that International humanitarian law prohibits targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure during armed conflicts, and emphasized the need for parties involved "to take all feasible precautions in the conduct of military operations to avoid, or at least minimize, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects. (un.org)
  • Most civilian deaths and damage to civilian objects in recent conflicts have occurred in the context of sieges, including those in Aleppo, Eastern Ghouta, Raqqa, Mosul, Hodeidah, Taiz, Donetsk and Marawi. (ceasefire.org)
  • Assessments of expected civilian deaths or injury or damage to civilian objects should include not just immediate direct effects but also the medium and longer-term effects of explosive remnants of war,and the reverberating effects of damage to vital civilian infrastructure. (ceasefire.org)
  • The basic rule is that the parties to the conflict must distinguish between combatants and civilians, and between military objectives and civilian objects. (lu.se)
  • The document proposes moving Gaza's civilian population to tent cities in northern Sinai, then building permanent cities and an undefined humanitarian corridor. (nbc4i.com)
  • Following allegations of a chemical attack on August 21st by Syrian government forces, Center for Civilians in Conflict urges the Syrian government to give the UN chemical weapons team, currently in Damascus, immediate and unfettered access to the area. (civiliansinconflict.org)
  • Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC)'s mission is to improve protection for civilians caught in conflicts around the world. (civiliansinconflict.org)
  • Annie Shiel, U.S. advocacy director at the Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), called the initiative 'an important step' but added that 'of course, its impact will come down to the details of implementation. (commondreams.org)
  • Over 10,000 Yemeni civilians have died in the conflict since 2015. (rt.com)
  • The purpose of its use is to curb the escalation of conflict where it is undesirable or prohibited to use lethal weapons. (transparencymarketresearch.com)
  • Over 20,000 civilians were killed or injured by explosive weapons in 2018, according to the 2019 report of the UN Secretary-General on protection of civilians in armed conflict. (ceasefire.org)
  • The Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights works directly with civilians affected by conflict, including in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and South Sudan, many of whom have suffered from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas. (ceasefire.org)
  • The declaration should reiterate that parties to conflict, including but not limited to parties on the ground, have a duty to carry out or otherwise facilitate effective, prompt, thorough and impartial investigations into civilian deaths and award reparation to civilians who have suffered violations. (ceasefire.org)
  • Civilians harmed in conflict, whether by conventional or chemical weapons, often live with the lasting consequences of their injuries for years to come. (civiliansinconflict.org)
  • This thesis examines how nonviolent action can be used to protect civilians in violent conflict. (edu.au)
  • [Show more] actors to better understand how they understand, practise, and experience unarmed civilian protection in violent conflict. (edu.au)
  • By attending to violent conflict and civilian protection as relational systems, comprising a multiplicity of entry points and actors, unarmed civilian protection practitioners can identify opportunities for protection and repair that are otherwise overlooked. (edu.au)
  • Civilian-led nonviolent action emerges as a form of protection, recasting protective power as communal praxis, as opposed to protection that is provided to or for conflict-affected communities. (edu.au)
  • This more holistic understanding of protection then enables political action, focused on transformation of unequal power relations and redress of persistent harms that characterise efforts to protect civilians experiencing violent conflict. (edu.au)
  • During periods of armed conflict, there are structures, actors, and processes at a number of levels that affect the likelihood of violence against civilians. (wikipedia.org)
  • In times of armed conflict, despite numerous advancements in technology, the European Union's European Security Strategy, adopted by the European Council in Brussels in December 2003, stated that since 1990, almost 4 million people have died in wars, 90% of them civilians. (wikipedia.org)
  • On the surface, the definition of a civilian, at least in the context of international armed conflicts, is relatively simple: a civilian is any person who is not a member of the armed forces and is not a combatant in situation of armed conflict. (wikipedia.org)
  • Incendiary weapons have been used most recently in the armed conflict in Ukraine, which began with Russia's full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022. (hrw.org)
  • North Korea is engaged in the seemingly inexorable pursuit of nuclear weapons capable of menacing the United States, and Syria's civil war continues to unleash fresh barbarities even as the conflict is poised to enter its eighth year. (latimes.com)
  • WHO is extremely alarmed by the use of chemical weapons in Mosul, where innocent civilians are already facing unimaginable suffering as a result of the ongoing conflict. (who.int)
  • In the early days of the conflict, the Ukranian president called upon the people of Ukraine to resist the invaders and began to distribute weapons to civilians. (lu.se)
  • Protocol III to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), which has 117 states parties, seeks to protect civilians from the use of these weapons. (hrw.org)
  • Protect civilians. (syriauk.org)
  • What the UK has not done is protect civilians. (syriauk.org)
  • Read about how the UK can help to protect civilians in Syria. (syriauk.org)
  • These weapons cause no or minimal harm to the assailant and is mostly used for self defense by the civilians. (transparencymarketresearch.com)
  • however,they frequently violate the duty to take all feasible precautions to avoid or minimise civilian harm and/or deploy unguided bombs or projectiles or other explosive weapons with wide area effect in populated areas whose effect is indiscriminate. (ceasefire.org)
  • We call on and advise international organizations, governments, militaries, and armed non-state actors to adopt and implement policies to prevent civilian harm. (civiliansinconflict.org)
  • When civilians are harmed we advocate for the provision of amends and post-harm assistance. (civiliansinconflict.org)
  • The protocol has weaker restrictions for ground-launched incendiary weapons than air-dropped versions, even though the harm caused is the same. (losservatorio.org)
  • The United States clearly has a vested interest in knowing what harm its weapons sales and security assistance cause to civilians,' Human Rights Watch (HRW) deputy Washington director Nicole Widdersheim told the newspaper. (commondreams.org)
  • on accountability for harm caused by U.S.-supplied weapons. (commondreams.org)
  • The U.S. State Department, which is leading the program with the help of 'personnel from the Pentagon, intelligence community, and other agencies,' announced the Civilian Harm Incident Response Guidance (CHIRG) in an August 23 cable to American embassies and consulates, according to the Post . (commondreams.org)
  • A State Department spokesperson told the Middle East Eye on Wednesday that 'CHIRG establishes a process to respond to new incidents of civilian harm and prevent them from recurring, and to drive partners to conduct military operations in accordance with international law,' but declined to say whether the probes will be made public. (commondreams.org)
  • The new initiative resembles a Defense Department effort launched last year that focuses on injuries and deaths of noncombatants caused by American forces-one which Shiel said at the time 'offers opportunities to address long-standing structural flaws in U.S. policy and practice, prevent future harm, and provide civilians harmed by U.S. operations with the recognition and response they deserve. (commondreams.org)
  • This statement, that includes genocidal language, appears as an admission of intent to commit war crimes and other grave international crimes against the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. (alhaq.org)
  • In its report, the Intelligence Ministry - a junior ministry that conducts research but does not set policy - offered three alternatives "to effect a significant change in the civilian reality in the Gaza Strip in light of the Hamas crimes that led to the Sword of Iron war. (nbc4i.com)
  • The blockade has also caused environmental disasters in many parts of the Gaza Strip, the latest of which had affected many civilians in the Bedouin village of "Um el Nasr" in the northern part of the Gaza Strip which was submerged by sewage as a result of the collapse of the water evacuation system there. (who.int)
  • The Assad regime has once again used chemical weapons to massacre civilians in Eastern Ghouta. (syriauk.org)
  • Since then the Assad regime has repeatedly used chlorine chemical weapons in attacks on civilians, including in Eastern Ghouta. (syriauk.org)
  • On April 7, probably the last attempt to stage a chemical weapons attack in Eastern Ghouta was made. (tass.com)
  • Terrorists have failed to fake any chemical weapon attacks against civilians in Eastern Ghouta, he added. (tass.com)
  • During the humanitarian operation, the illegal armed units fighting in Eastern Ghouta have incessantly attempted to organize provocations involving the alleged use of toxic chemicals so as to put the blame for the use of chemical weapons on the Syrian government forces," he said. (tass.com)
  • Since the beginning of the humanitarian operation in Eastern Ghouta terrorists have failed to fake a single so-called chemical weapon attack against the civilian population," the general said. (tass.com)
  • Human Rights Watch has reviewed visual evidence showing that there were at least 82 attacks in Ukraine using surface-fired incendiary weapons between February 2022 and April 2023. (hrw.org)
  • Protocol III prohibits the use of air-dropped incendiary weapons in concentrations of civilians, but the provision on ground-launched incendiary weapons includes several caveats that weaken it. (hrw.org)
  • We continue to closely follow disturbing reports on April 7 regarding another alleged chemical weapons attack, this time targeting a hospital in Douma, Syria. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • The United States continues to use all efforts available to hold those who use chemical weapons, in Syria and otherwise, accountable. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Russia, with its unwavering support for the regime, ultimately bears responsibility for these brutal attacks, targeting of countless civilians, and the suffocation of Syria s most vulnerable communities with chemical weapons. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • We have seen the normalisation of chemical weapons use in Syria be followed by the use of chemical weapons within the UK. (syriauk.org)
  • The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) and the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) have documented nearly 200 uses of chemical weapons in Syria since 2012. (syriauk.org)
  • Previous United Nations Security Council Resolutions on this matter have failed in stopping the use of chemical weapons in Syria. (syriauk.org)
  • Documenting the harrowing accounts of victims in Afghanistan, Gaza and Syria, the report details the extensive use of incendiary weapons, including white phosphorous (WP), in warfare today, describing their immediate and long-term effects to civilians, and sheds light on the failures of international law as a humanitarian instrument which is intended to protect them. (losservatorio.org)
  • An incendiary report that North Korea has been providing Syria with material that could be used to make chemical weapons marks the merging of a pair of dangerous storylines involving two of the world's prime powder kegs. (latimes.com)
  • North Korean missile technicians have also reportedly been seen working at weapons facilities inside Syria. (latimes.com)
  • State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Tuesday that the United States has "had concerns for a long time " about the possibility of North Korea providing chemical weapons components to Syria, although she said she had not seen the U.N. report and could not comment on it directly. (latimes.com)
  • The U.N. investigators' reported findings underscore a dual danger: Illicit shipments from North Korea could allow Syria to maintain and shore up a cache of chemical weapons, while North Korea gets a badly needed infusion of cash to continue racing toward its nuclear and ballistic goals. (latimes.com)
  • But the imperial CW narrative has now shifted because the West has now admitted1, somewhat inadvertently, that, yes "extremist groups" in Syria do use chemical weapons. (marktaliano.net)
  • Regardless of that fact, on Sunday, when asked about the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria, Trump blamed Russia and Iran for supporting Assad's regime. (tass.com)
  • Based on this experience, Ceasefire's guidelines have been drawn up to support the international agreement of a strong political declaration on explosive weapons which will be effective in improving civilian protection. (ceasefire.org)
  • The protection of civilians should remain the top priority amid the continued full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and strict control over weapons supplies is needed to prevent diversion, the UN disarmament chief told the Security Council on Thursday. (un.org)
  • Ms. Nakamitsu added that there were also alarming accounts of weapons transfers to the Russian armed forces for use in Ukraine, including uncrewed combat aerial vehicles and ammunition. (un.org)
  • Reiterating the UN's strong condemnation of attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure, she called for their immediate cessation and reaffirmed commitment to support any meaningful efforts aimed at achieving a just and sustainable peace in Ukraine. (un.org)
  • Biden warns Putin may resort to using chemical weapons in Ukraine. (cbc.ca)
  • Following its decision in July to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions, the Biden Administration is this month sending a second consignment of these weapons, which are banned by the Oslo Convention. (humanity-inclusion.org.uk)
  • The discovery of large numbers of apparently executed civilians after Russian forces retreated from cities and towns around the capital, Kyiv, already has prompted widespread condemnation and claims that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine. (cityam.com)
  • NATO used weaponized white phosphorous against civilians in Mosul, Iraq, for example, and NATO proxy ground troops who call themselves al Qaeda, al Nusra Front, Daesh, FSA, and a host of other names, also use chemical weapons against civilians. (marktaliano.net)
  • 3 March 2017 - Following the reported use of chemical weapons agents in East Mosul, Iraq, WHO, partners and local health authorities have activated an emergency response plan to safely treat men, women and children who may be exposed to the highly toxic chemical. (who.int)
  • Since the beginning of the Mosul crisis, WHO has been taking concrete steps to ensure preparedness for the potential use of chemical weapons, together with local health authorities. (who.int)
  • Plan and allocate resources and medical expertise to care for victims with immediate and lasting injuries, including those who may experience the after-effects of chemical weapons. (civiliansinconflict.org)
  • Scores of innocent victims are mowed down like blades of grass with these weapons of war. (thevalleystarnews.com)
  • [1] This report documents the impact on civilian victims of the use of antipersonnel landmines in Colombia, as well as the assistance the government provides to such survivors. (hrw.org)
  • When bombing take place in cities, 90% of the victims are civilians. (humanity-inclusion.org.uk)
  • Since civilian victims exposed to CWAs are likely to flee to the nearest hospital, emergency physicians play a key role in preparing emergency departments for the treatment of persons exposed to CWAs. (medscape.com)
  • A civilian casualty occurs when a civilian is killed or injured by non-civilians, mostly law enforcement officers, military personnel, rebel group forces, or terrorists. (wikipedia.org)
  • Research by the Bureau shows that on average a civilian was killed every fourth drone or jet strike in 2015 - up from one in 11 attacks the year before and the first time the casualty rate has risen since 2011. (truthout.org)
  • Chris Woods, director of the monitoring group Airwars , said "hard-won" lessons from 2009 onwards, when serious efforts to reduce the civilian casualty rate from international airstrikes began, were being lost. (truthout.org)
  • Excluding these two single attacks from the casualty total would 47 dead in 409 attacks - a rate of one civilian dead for every nine strikes. (truthout.org)
  • Statistics presented in the current update are based on individual civilian casualty records where the "reasonable grounds to believe" standard of proof was met, namely where, based on a body of verified information, an ordinarily prudent observer would have reasonable grounds to believe that the casualty took place as described. (ohchr.org)
  • In 1977, Protocol I was adopted as an amendment to the Geneva Conventions, prohibiting the deliberate or indiscriminate attack of civilians and civilian objects in the war-zone and the attacking force must take precautions and steps to spare the lives of civilians and civilian objects as possible. (wikipedia.org)
  • The biggest users of antipersonnel landmines in Colombia, as well as other indiscriminate weapons such as gas cylinder bombs, are Colombia's two largest guerrilla groups: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) and the smaller National Liberation Army (ELN). (hrw.org)
  • Areas of Ghouta in the suburbs of Damascus were the site of the Assad regime's deadliest chemical weapons attack in 2013 when at least 1,400 people were killed with Sarin nerve agent. (syriauk.org)
  • Assad's government has long denied using any chemical weapons, though it stands accused of using sarin gas in Ghouta in 2013. (latimes.com)
  • The missile attack in central Kramatorsk on 27 June which killed 12 people is a case in point ," said Ms. Nakamitsu and reminded ambassadors of the political declaration adopted last November to strengthen the protection of civilians from the humanitarian consequences of explosives being used in urban areas. (un.org)
  • White phosphorous is often used on battlefields to create smoke screens, generate illumination and mark targets, and as such, is not covered by the definition, despite its devastating, and often fatal, effects to civilians caught in the crossfire. (losservatorio.org)
  • At least 10,000 Yemeni civilians have died and the country is experiencing a devastating famine and a cholera epidemic, according to Oxfam. (rt.com)
  • As Russian troops killed more than 10,000 civilians over the past six weeks in their unsuccessful fight to capture the strategic southern port of Mariupol, the city's major said this morning that corpses are now "carpeted through the streets" of the regional hub. (cityam.com)
  • The year before, the number of civilians killed or injured by explosive weapons was over twice as great. (ceasefire.org)
  • Last Monday in Geneva, more than 70 States met for the second round of negotiations for a political declaration against the use of explosive weapons in urban areas. (humanity-inclusion.org.uk)
  • A recent report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) illustrates the horrific human cost of incendiary weapons, demanding that governments revise the international treaties governing their use. (losservatorio.org)
  • She asked whether Centcom is able to ascertain whether US fuel or munitions were used as part of Saudi strikes that killed civilians. (rt.com)
  • By describing incendiary weapons as those "primarily designed" to set fires or burn humans, Protocol III's definition of incendiary weapons excludes most multipurpose incendiary munitions. (hrw.org)
  • White phosphorus munitions produce similarly cruel injuries to other weapons with incendiary effects, despite falling outside the definition of incendiary weapons under Protocol III to the Convention on Conventional Weapons. (hrw.org)
  • The design-based criterion arguably excludes from the definition of an incendiary weapon, and, hence, from the scope of the protocol, certain multipurpose munitions with incidental incendiary effects. (losservatorio.org)
  • Military personnel and civilians can be exposed to metal aerosols generated during firing or impact, or after injury with retained embedded munitions fragments. (who.int)
  • Weapons-grade tungsten (with nickel and cobalt) alloy is used in armour-penetrating munitions. (who.int)
  • At the Vienna Conference on Protecting Civilians in Urban Warfare in October 2019, participating states supported the initiative of a political declaration aimed at strengthening protection for civilians from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas, and a series of international consultations to draft the declaration are currently taking place. (ceasefire.org)
  • When you carry a weapon, you also carry responsibility for the people who are innocent - helpless civilians," Ben Ami said to Ynet. (allisrael.com)
  • NATO terrorists use chemical weapons against innocent civilians as policy. (marktaliano.net)
  • These weapons are being used to kill innocent people, including our children. (medscape.com)
  • Permits for the purchase of civilian and service weapons and ammunition for them to legal entities, or a reasoned response to refuse to provide public services. (egov.kz)
  • Marines and civilians with Ammunition Platoon, Supply Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 15, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), are redeploying these weapon systems into the Iraqi Army, turning insurgent resources into coalition assets. (marines.mil)
  • Equip any civilian and yourself from a box of ammunition. (bistudio.com)
  • The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam is possibly the most significant incident of damage to civilian infrastructure since the start of the war ," believes Ms. Nakamitsu. (un.org)
  • The attacks on the capital, while striking some infrastructure, also appeared specifically targeted at civilian objectives, including a children's playground , a university and a pedestrian bridge. (worldcrunch.com)
  • The rate at which civilians are being killed by US airstrikes in Afghanistan is at its highest point since 2008, an analysis of newly published UN data reveals. (truthout.org)
  • For the past 48 hours, the Israeli military has carried out a relentless series of attacks against the civilian population in Gaza, destroying dozens of family homes, residential and commercial buildings-often without issuing precautionary warnings-and wiping out entire Palestinian families. (alhaq.org)
  • Another Israeli civilian, who managed to stop a terrorist attack in Beersheva at the height of a terror wave across the country in March, saw his weapon taken away after a confrontation with police. (allisrael.com)
  • The south-eastern port city of Mariupol has seen some of the heaviest attacks and civilian suffering in the six-week war, but the land, sea and air assaults by Russian forces fighting to capture it have increasingly limited information on circumstances inside the city. (cityam.com)
  • Intentionally targeting a civilian population, on the other hand, is both a violation of IHL, giving rise to state responsibility, and also a war crime, for which the individual perpetrator bears criminal responsibility. (lu.se)
  • Soldiers and civilian authorities on both sides of the border tightly control access to Guinea. (doctorswithoutborders.org)
  • Australians always look forward to celebrating Anzac Day, but this year it will be different because a pall of shame has fallen over our armed forces thanks to a jaw-dropping TV expose aired this week that showed elite Aussie soldiers murdering Afghan civilians in cold blood when they were supposed to be protecting them from the Taliban. (rt.com)
  • If the civilians shoots in the soldiers of NATO or FIA or CSAT, then these soldiers do not react to the attack! (bistudio.com)
  • For unknown reason, only AAF soldiers begin to shoot In civilians, who attacked them! (bistudio.com)
  • Civilian AI, automatically will be to attack enemy soldiers and you also can shoot them. (bistudio.com)
  • By turns, are soldiers will die, but no one soldier not fired in civilians, who attacking them. (bistudio.com)
  • Yes, maybe soldiers should not respond on civilian with a weapon in hand, but if this civilians attacked the soldiers, then should be an adequate response! (bistudio.com)
  • You're right about the reaction to armed civilians, soldiers should react in a proper way, but as stated before, the game works in a way that the civilian side would always be the 'no threat' side, you shouldn't take the meaning of 'civilian' literally. (bistudio.com)
  • The last, and only, time semiautomatic assault weapons were banned was in 1994 with the Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act. (thevalleystarnews.com)
  • The Act banned 20 types of semiautomatic assault weapons, large capacity magazines, various accessories, gun modifications, and gave a definition of what an assault weapon was, but unfortunately the act grandfathered in weapons and LCM magazines that were purchased before the ban was enacted. (thevalleystarnews.com)
  • However, a study by the National Center for Biotechnology Information found, "Mass-shooting related homicides in the United States were reduced during the years of the federal assault weapons ban of 1994 to 2004. (thevalleystarnews.com)
  • The new 2019 assault weapons ban proposed by congress is similar to the 1994 ban and even has the same loopholes. (thevalleystarnews.com)
  • The lethality of assault weapons outfitted with large capacity magazines, the Dayton, Ohio killer who had a drum magazine that held 100 rounds and killed nine people in 32 seconds, is obvious in Axios' study. (thevalleystarnews.com)
  • Why Do Civilians Need Assault Weapons? (frjohnpeck.com)
  • The two strongest reasons for civilians to own assault weapons are self-defense and defense against tyranny. (frjohnpeck.com)
  • When there's no law and order - only chaos - that's when civilians need assault weapons. (frjohnpeck.com)
  • Assault weapons are used by people who are assigned for general security of the people. (hubpages.com)
  • Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) said he would pursue an assault weapons ban after a mass shooting killed at least 18 people in his hometown of Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday. (fox2now.com)
  • She noted that she supported the original 1995 Federal Assault Weapons Ban and an effort to renew it, but she opposed later, more expansive efforts. (fox2now.com)
  • The regime s history of using chemical weapons against its own people is not in dispute, and in fact nearly one year ago on April 4, 2017, Assad s forces conducted a sarin gas attack on Khan Sheikhoun, which killed approximately 100 Syrians. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Other times, the delineation between targetable and non-targetable individuals, and between military objectives and civilian objects, can get a bit murky. (lu.se)
  • It figures a regime that puts people in deadly prison camps for their parents' political opposition [North Korea] would have no qualms helping Assad gas Syrian civilians," tweeted Kenneth Roth, the executive director of New York-based Human Rights Watch. (latimes.com)
  • The chemical weapons attack on civilians in the Syrian town of Douma was staged and filmed by members of the White Helmets organization, First Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff's Main Operations Department Lieutenant General Viktor Poznikhir told reporters on Wednesday. (tass.com)
  • Biden reiterated accusations that Putin is considering resorting to using chemical or biological weapons, though Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. has seen no evidence to suggest that such an escalation is imminent. (cbc.ca)
  • Her in Asia are teetering on the brink of a Biological Weapons chapter on the epidemiology of HIV violent explosion. (cdc.gov)
  • The U.S. national civilian vulnerability to the deliberate use of biological and chemical agents has been highlighted by recognition of substantial biological weapons development programs and arsenals in foreign countries, attempts to acquire or possess biological agents by militants, and high-profile terrorist attacks. (cdc.gov)
  • Given complementary calls by Israel's Prime Minister to reduce Gaza to "rubble", such a widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population may amount to a crime against humanity, and is reminiscent of the 'scorched earth' policy prosecuted at Nuremberg. (alhaq.org)
  • CDC recommendations for civilian communities near chemical weapons depots: guidelines for medical preparedness--CDC. (cdc.gov)
  • Concise, bulleted summary of recommendations from the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense. (cdc.gov)
  • However, we do know that civilians are held up at gun point frequently, so the benefits of teaching gun defenses definitely outweigh the downsides. (kravmaga.com)
  • Although the Fourth Geneva Convention attempted to erect some legal defenses for civilians in time of war, the bulk of the Fourth Convention devoted to explicating civilian rights in occupied territories, and no explicit attention is paid to the problems of bombardment and the hazardous effects in the combat-zone. (wikipedia.org)
  • Joseph Vince, a former special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who now works as a gun crime consultant said in an interview with NPR, "You're talking, really, a weapon of mass destruction that you're giving over the counter to anybody. (thevalleystarnews.com)
  • These are weapons of mass destruction and should not be available or sold to just anyone. (thevalleystarnews.com)
  • Despite the fact that the chemical weapons/Weapons of Mass Destruction meme was found to be as fake as the "incubator story" hatched by the Hill and Knowlton PR firm as a pretext for the illegal invasion of Iraq, projecting the chemical weapons lie onto target nations is still somewhat effective, given the success of MSM media to inoculate western consumers against the truth. (marktaliano.net)
  • [ 1 ] As potential weapons of mass destruction, CWAs are capable of causing a catastrophic medical disaster that could overwhelm any healthcare system. (medscape.com)
  • While it is often difficult to determine with certainty who laid any given antipersonnel landmine, most of the civilian survivors who spoke to Human Rights Watch for this report placed the blame for their injuries squarely on the guerrilla groups, which in many cases had been in the area right before the landmine incident. (hrw.org)
  • The civilian death toll from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas is due first and foremost to a failure to implement existing international law duties, including (but not limited to) those under the Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional Protocols, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Chemical Weapons Convention, and customary international law. (ceasefire.org)
  • Due to the incendiary nature of white phosphorus, mortar bombs, shells, rockets and grenades containing this chemical fall within the ambit of Protocol III to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), the only legal instrument which regulates the use of incendiary weapons. (losservatorio.org)
  • All this has led to a serious deterioration in Palestinian civilians' living standards, and their humanitarian situation, which has become critical on account of high levels of unemployment and poverty. (who.int)
  • Mr Hunt specified that temporary relief assistance provided by donor countries through a variety of channels other than the elected Palestinian Government cannot provide for the needs of the health sector in order to ensure basic health services for civilians. (who.int)
  • Hence, aerial delivery, in the conduct of hostilities, of incendiary weapons containing WP within a concentration of civilians is prohibited. (losservatorio.org)
  • This protection is afforded to civilians, "unless and for such time as they take a direct part in hostilities. (lu.se)
  • In its latest annual report published at the weekend, Unama said there had been 103 civilian deaths from US air actions in Afghanistan in 2015. (truthout.org)
  • Of the 103 civilian deaths recorded by the UN in 2015, the gunship attack on a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz in October accounted for 42 of the total. (truthout.org)
  • In addition, as a highly detailed four-month investigation published by the Bureau today shows, the UN has also classified 14 people killed in a counter-terrorism strike in Khost province in June as civilian deaths. (truthout.org)
  • Semi automatic assault rifles in the civilian world are called modern sporting rifles - a rather benign sounding name for weapons of war. (thevalleystarnews.com)
  • In just over a quarter of the shootings the weapons of choice were semiautomatic rifles. (thevalleystarnews.com)
  • The armed Korean store owners successfully defended themselves because assault rifles are the pre-eminent self-defense weapons. (frjohnpeck.com)
  • Two facts can't be ignored: one, assault rifles are the best weapon against multiple attackers, and two, eight minutes is the average police response time for life-threatening calls in medium-size cities. (frjohnpeck.com)
  • Our Founding Fathers gave us the most profound justification for civilians owning assault rifles: protection from tyranny. (frjohnpeck.com)
  • Thousands of weapons, mostly AK-47 assault rifles, have been brought to the ASP where a team of specialists inspects the recovered items to determine which are still operational. (marines.mil)
  • I've seen Egyptian, German and Czechoslovakian Mausers," said Garner, referring to some of the rifles he's seen since the weapons started coming in. (marines.mil)
  • Close Protocol III's loopholes and further stigmatize the use of incendiary weapons. (hrw.org)
  • A growing number of weapon manufacturers are not confined to the requirements of law enforcement or military personnel but have become aware of the growing needs in civilians. (transparencymarketresearch.com)
  • Consideration of the effects of explosive weapons in populated areas should be undertaken in the context of the wider military operation(s) of which they form part. (ceasefire.org)
  • Three of the seven specialists are civilian contractors with prior military service. (marines.mil)
  • On April 9, Russian military chemists visited the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, including the health facility shown in the White Helmets' footage, but found neither cases of exposure to chemical weapons nor traces of toxic agents. (tass.com)
  • The Iraqi military also used chemical weapons against the Iraqi Kurds during the second Persian Gulf War. (medscape.com)
  • We have created a public health hazard by allowing virtually everyone access to military-grade weapons. (medscape.com)
  • Military weapons have evolved into a lethal firepower the framers of the constitution never imagined. (medscape.com)
  • Using a relational approach, it provides a multi-sited ethnographic account of how communities and organisations practise unarmed civilian protection to protect themselves, their families, friends, and neighbours against the threat of violence. (edu.au)
  • Drawing on examples of unarmed civilian protection from around the world, from South Sudan to Myanmar to the United States, the thesis critically explores how the practice both challenges, and sometimes inadvertently reinforces, the power structures and assumptions that underscore conventional civilian protection practices contingent on the use of force. (edu.au)
  • Exploring how the protection of civilians is possible without the use of force, the thesis argues that unarmed civilian protection works by and through co-constituted relations. (edu.au)
  • By decentring the state and force-centric approaches as the primary referents for protection practice, the approach also reorients power and agency in civilian-led, nonviolent action. (edu.au)
  • To observe these entanglements, it is necessary to explore the power of unarmed civilian protection as it is enacted in the world. (edu.au)
  • These observations enable understanding of the power that animates unarmed civilian protection, and how it is distinctive from other forms of protection contingent on the use of force. (edu.au)
  • Through their joint report, HRW and IHRC urge governments to carry out the necessary groundwork on incendiary weapons now, in preparation to take concrete action at the 2021 CCW Review Conference. (losservatorio.org)
  • Il s'agit d'une étude rétrospective descriptive et analytique, multicentrique portant sur des patients de moins de 5ans pris en charge pour une affection neurochirurgicale de Janvier 2019 à Décembre 2021 à Libreville. (bvsalud.org)
  • At the same time, many civilian survivors feel they have been ignored by the Colombian government in its policies and funding. (hrw.org)
  • However, it is a fact that civilian survivors often do not receive adequate support. (hrw.org)
  • The use and possession of fatal, conventional weapons by civilians is prohibited in most of the countries around the world through national laws. (transparencymarketresearch.com)
  • Since her last briefing in May, said Izumi Nakamitsu, the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, reports from open sources indicate an influx in the transfer of heavy conventional weapons, including battle tanks, combat aircraft, artillery and missile systems. (un.org)
  • White phosphorus is notorious for the severity of the injuries it causes and almost all States Parties to the Convention on Conventional Weapons have voiced their concern and are calling for the review and strengthening of CCW Protocol III, expressing their desire for dedicated discussions at international level. (losservatorio.org)
  • Although the Chemical Weapons Convention and a number of international treaties have banned the development, production, and stockpiling of those CWAs with only a warfare use, these agents reportedly still are being produced or stockpiled in several countries. (medscape.com)
  • These include the Hague Declaration concerning Asphyxiating Gases, the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). (who.int)
  • They (also) seriously injured several other civilians who were dispatched for urgent care," he said. (bigcountryhomepage.com)
  • There is an urgent need for political action: We must control the use of explosive weapons that have no place in the cities which have become today's battlefields. (humanity-inclusion.org.uk)
  • 2. A more ambitious one to recognise the urgent need to limit the use of explosive weapons in urban are as. (humanity-inclusion.org.uk)
  • A team of Marines and civilians inspect recovered Iraqi weapons before redeploying them to the Iraqi Army. (marines.mil)
  • Human rights advocates and some congressional Democrats on Wednesday cautiously welcomed Washington Post reporting that the Biden administration has created a program to track and investigate allegations of foreign forces harming or killing civilians with weapons provided by the United States. (commondreams.org)
  • Good argument, but again, should we possibly put officer's lives at risk so that a small minority of the law-abiding population can learn weapon retention. (kravmaga.com)
  • Civilians in North America are showing a consistent increase in concern over personal safety, especially for the feminine population. (transparencymarketresearch.com)
  • Gaza has a civilian population of over two million Palestinians, half of whom are children. (alhaq.org)
  • This is the case where starvation is imposed as part of "a mass killing of members of a civilian population" according to the ICC's Elements of Crimes. (alhaq.org)
  • Shortly thereafter, weapons were confiscated, followed by genocide of the Jewish population. (frjohnpeck.com)
  • And with most people in cities and suburbs, population density makes the misuse of these weapons even more dangerous. (medscape.com)
  • 51(2), "The civilian population as such, as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack. (lu.se)
  • Incendiary weapons are notorious for their horrific human cost. (hrw.org)