Translation of "Fait de guerre impliquant l'explosion d'armes navales " (French → English) :

War operations involving nuclear weapons

War operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare

War operations involving biological weapons

When you think about it, there is little moral difference between a person blowing up an airliner full of innocent passengers, and someone putting a bomb in a public place in the course of an armed conflict in another part of the world, which is, technically, a war crime, because it is a deliberate attack on a civilian population.

B. whereas the massacre of the Syrian regime against its population, which has driven the country to the brink of civil war, continues; whereas the report of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria of 15 August 2012 concluded that government forces and Shabbiha fighters had committed crimes against humanity as well as war crimes and gross violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, and that these actions had followed state policy with the involvement at the highest levels of the armed and security forces ...[+++] and the government; whereas the UN Commission also reported that war crimes had been perpetrated by anti-government armed groups, even if these had not been of the same gravity, frequency and scale as those committed by government forces and the Shabbiha; whereas UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has repeatedly called on the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court;

72. Underlines the importance of comprehensive implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions 1325, 1820, 888 and 1889 calling for the participation of women in all phases and at all levels of conflict resolution and the protection of women and girls from sexual violence and discrimination; calls on Member States that do not yet have a National Action Plan for the implementation of the UNSCR 1325 to adopt one as a matter of urgency; strongly condemns rape used as an instrument of war and the recurrent mass rapes occurring in DR Congo; requests full disclosure on the incapacity of the MONUSCO peacekeeping force to put a stop to ...[+++]mass rapes; urges the EU HR/VP, through EUSEC and EUPOL in DRC, to conduct an enquiry and report to the EP on all Congolese and international companies or entities involved in the extractive industries in DRC which pay armed groups and security personnel involved in such mass rapes and other systematic crimes against civilians;

A. whereas ‘explosive remnants of war’ (ERW) refers to unexploded ordnance that has been primed, fused, armed or otherwise prepared for use and used in armed conflict and should have exploded but failed to do so,