Warring parties have terrorized populations into leaving specific areas.

Warring parties seek to terrorize populations into leaving specific areas.

5. Warring parties should be encouraged to agree on at least a minimum of decent behaviour.

Formerly warring parties in southern Sudan have signed a peace accord and entered a period of reconciliation.

During his papacy the Church played a key role in bringing together warring parties to achieve reconciliation.

2. Stresses that the responsibility for the humanitarian crisis lies with all warring parties, in particular with the Taliban

Only in that way will it be possible to determine whether or not warring parties have complied with humanitarian conventions.

The warring parties habitually use the rape of women as a weapon of war, so as to humiliate and terrorize the population.

Most post cold war conflicts are civil wars in which front lines are not always clear and warring parties not easily identified.

8. Calls upon all warring parties in Afghanistan to refrain from detaining foreign nationals and urge their captors to release them immediately

Massive population displacements result from these violations how to ensure respect for international humanitarian law by warring parties is a growing challenge.

(c) The civilian massacres involving reprisal killings and summary executions following, in recent years, the taking and retaking of particular areas by warring parties

Despite attempts by various parties, and the occasional truce, efforts to bring all the warring factions to the negotiation table have yet to succeed.

Past experience has shown that respect for human rights is a prerequisite for mutual trust between warring parties to ignore them would be a tragic mistake.

The proliferation of inexpensive weapons had also helped to change warfare, since it allowed the warring parties to maintain a state of armed conflict almost indefinitely.

An immediate and durable ceasefire among the Afghan parties, to be supervised by a commission composed of representatives of all the warring parties, facilitated by the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference

A ceasefire agreement between the warring parties the Bougainville Revolutionary Army and Papua New Guinea was signed in 1998, followed three years later by a peace agreement.

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This would be a strong incentive to go to Geneva. Warring parties start to negotiate seriously only if and when they know that other alternatives are out of reach.

Too often, however, the warring parties, one or more of which may be irregular militias or self proclaimed authorities, make it difficult or impossible for them to do so.

Although MONUC has established a humanitarian zone between the warring parties to allow the distribution of aid, the situation is a worrying one with serious consequences for the human rights situation.

The abuses and violations that were occurring almost throughout the world were the result of lack of will among the warring parties or among Governments to apply the relevant legal forms.

In the strongest way possible, international pressure must be brought to bear on all warring parties to respect the human rights of civilians, including relief workers, in situations of armed conflict.

Representatives of the warring factions met on 8 November 1996 in Islamabad.

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There is also a need to continue to exert pressure on the warring parties to make them fulfil their obligations and to ensure that they arrive at a political settlement of the conflict.

In order to make warring parties more accountable for their actions, I recommend that combatants be held financially liable to their victims under international law where civilians are made the deliberate target of aggression.

28. Despite intensified fighting in parts of the country, notably Bahr Al Ghazal, western Upper Nile and the eastern border, there appeared to be little change in the strategic balance between the warring parties.

The demobilized members of the various warring forces numbered in the hundreds of thousands.

Training was the best guarantee that operations would be conducted in compliance with the law, and that United Nations contingents would be in a position to ensure that the warring parties complied with the law.

Any strategy must intend to avert or limit mass population displacement and also seek to reduce the scale of violence committed by warring parties and to safeguard civilian populations from the effects of the conflict.

35. UNSMA continues to maintain useful contacts with other, non warring Afghan factions and personalities.

13. Urges all parties to the civil war in the Sudan to seek a negotiated settlement to the conflict immediately, and encourages the parties to cooperate with efforts by the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development to assist the warring parties to put an end to the conflict and hasten a return of Sudanese refugees residing in neighbouring countries

It must be remembered that such protection, which presupposed ongoing dialogue between the warring parties, was becoming increasingly complex and dangerous owing to the effects of the political, legal and moral vacuum which Ms. Machel had denounced.

10. Reiterates its call upon all Afghans, especially the leaders of warring parties, to cooperate fully with the broad based authoritative council, priority being given to the implementation of the steps referred to in paragraph 8 above

The ongoing risk of conflict has demonstrated, further, how access to resources by warring parties can foster violence, and has highlighted the impact that international business interests can have on the success or failure of peace efforts.

It had also signed peace agreements with some of the warring parties in the south of the country to restore stability to the Sudan and eliminate the causes of population displacements, of which children were the main victims.

It was agreed that the United Nations would continue to insist that minimum operational standards be adhered to by the warring parties, including use of appropriate communications equipment, if humanitarian operations in conflict zones were to be maintained.

To create and control a national security force to provide for security throughout the country and oversee the demobilization of all the warring parties through the collection and safeguarding of all heavy weapons in the country, and to stop the flow of arms and of equipment related to arms production to the parties

6. During the consolidation phase, a period of cantonment is necessary to deter the disarmed combatants from returning to their respective warring parties and to facilitate the process of reintegration. The duration of cantonment should be specified in the peace agreement.

While urging him to continue his noble efforts, we regret the deterioration of the situation and above all the fact that no cease fire has been accepted by the warring parties, which has prevented the establishment of an African interposition force.

Despite the meetings held in New York by the group of eight concerned countries, and the best efforts of the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan, the warring Afghan parties have continued to pursue the military option at great humanitarian cost.

(d) The existence of many internal armed conflicts, some of them attributable to ethnic mistrust and resistance, which extend to the regional level and in which the warring parties resort to the hiring of mercenaries to boost their military potential

He also agreed that the proliferation of arms in Burundi had served to fuel the civil strife and that there was a need to stem the flow of arms to that country by means of an international arms embargo against the warring parties.

Civilians are no longer caught up in a conflict between warring parties they become the targeted enemy, as are all those who work to assist and bring relief to them and who might become the unwitting witnesses to atrocities committed against civilian populations.