The members of the Security Council reiterated their demand that all parties to armed conflict immediately cease completely all forms of sexual violence and all human rights abuses against the civilian population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in particular gender-based violence including rape and other forms of sexual abuse.
Kaspersky Labs' namesake Eugene Kaspersky is worried that widely distributed and potentially state-sponsored malware like Flame and Stuxnet pose dire threats to often lightly protected infrastructure like communication and power plants -- whatever your nationality, it's clearly bad for the civilian population of a given country to suffer even collateral damage from cyberattacks.
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The entire civilian population of the village was ordered to leave in December 1943 to provide a training area for American troops preparing for the invasion of Europe during World War II.
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"Though the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent are doing everything possible to assist civilians affected by the violence, it is up to the parties to the conflict to take every feasible measure to spare the civilian population the effects of the fighting, " said Marianne Gasser, the head of the ICRC delegation in Syria.
But with only one in five bombs landing within five square miles (13 sq km) of its target, the local civilian population bore most of the damage, as they also did in Europe.
The authorities were seriously concerned about the effect of heavy bombing on the civilian population, but Hull did not crack and the raids produced many examples of heroism.
India supported military action against Tamil Tiger rebels for most of the Sri Lankan war, but always cautioned Colombo about protecting the rights of the Tamil civilian population and ensuring their welfare.
And the idea of 1973 in part was to protect those citizens and the civilian population areas from that exercise of violence.
Peacekeepers have a special duty to show that the United Nations respects and protects human rights, and protect the lives of the civilian population.
Armed forces should employ intelligence to not only identify potential threats, but also to understand the civilian population in the area of operations (something they already do).
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The Lebanese government is negotiating with the U.N. to secure a humanitarian corridors for the delivery of supplies to the civilian population.
Lets stop producing bombs and using our military technology for the benefit of our civilian population.
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The exhibit's introduction cites the government's definition of terrorism -- "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives" -- and says its aim is to address how and when Americans felt under threat, and from whom.
Last year, some 3, 000 Afghan civilians died in the Afghan War out of a population of 30 million, which makes the civilian death rate from the Afghan war 1 in 10, 000.
The United States is the country with the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world. (The second highest is Yemen, where the rate is nevertheless only half that of the U.S.) No civilian population is more powerfully armed.
You should go to NATO to ask NATO about the specific decisions in terms of bombing missions, but the mission -- the goal of the mission is clear: protect the civilian population, enforce the no-fly zone, enforce the arms embargo.
Angola faces the daunting tasks of rebuilding its infrastructure, retrieving weapons from its heavily-armed civilian population and resettling tens of thousands of refugees who fled the fighting.
"Unless such restrictions are stopped, the civilian population will continued to suffer from shortages of medical care, food and shelter materials, " the statement said.
The World Conference on Human Rights is deeply concerned about violations of human rights during armed conflicts, affecting the civilian population, especially women, children, the elderly and the disabled.
"Lifting the restrictions will ease (the situation) for the Palestinian population, " the army said, adding it had no intention of making civilian life difficult.
We keep getting this message every day about how they want to get the civilian population on their side and this is part of that battle.
"For offenses that take place in a country in which we operate alongside the civilian population, it is critical that our system of military justice be efficient, fair, dependable and credible, " he added.
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UNITA, evaluating the strength of the government's build-up and air power, opted for a tactical withdrawal, taking most of its heavy weapons, and the civilian population, with it.
Much of its code is simply camouflage -- 3, 000 lines of programming that make it hard to understand and even harder for an enemy team of coders or even hackers in the civilian population to copy and use themselves.
More important, the aim of military operations should be to protect the civilian population and win its trust, not to kill as many insurgents as possible.
One of the aims of aerial bombing in the second world war was to terrorise the civilian population into surrender.
It also said Israel must comply with the Fourth Geneva Convention, which states that occupying powers shouldn't transfer parts of its civilian population into territory it occupies.
Nikolic was found guilty of "breaking international rules of war by killing two ethnic Albanian civilians, committing war crimes against the civilian population, " said judge Dragan Tacic, delivering the sentence.
The army intervened at Nudo de Paramillo not only out of constitutional duty but also in response to a request by the local mayor to protect the civilian population.
The agency "remains gravely concerned about the safety of the Palestine refugee population in Syria and appeals to all parties to refrain from actions that endanger civilian lives and property, " it said.
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