News Roundup – 18 February 2013

Abu Sayyaf ADF ADF-NALU administration of justice Afghanistan Africa African Union Afrin Agnes Taylor Ahrar-al-Sham aiding and abetting Al-Nusra Al-Qaida Al-Shabaa Al-Shabaab Al-Shabab Al-Shabba Algeria Al Qaeda amnesty anit-balaka Ansar Dine Ansar Eddine Ansaru anti-balaka anti-tank guided weapons anti-terrorism legislation APCLS APII appeals decision Applicable Law AQAP AQIM Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army armed actors armed conflict armed groups arms control arms trade Arms Trade Treaty arms treaty Army of Islam article 96(3) artificial intelligence asylum attacks on schools autonomous weapons Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement Barisan Revolusi Nasional Baru Bemba Bemba Gombo Benghazi bodies Boko Haram Bosco Ntaganda Brasil Brazil BRN Burkina Faso Burma Burma/Myanmar Burundi business Camberoon Cambodia Cameroon Canada CAR Caucasus Emirate ceasefires Central African Republic Central Sahel Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue Chad Charles Taylor Chechnya chemical weapons child and armed conflict children and armed conflict children in armed conflict child soldiers China civilian Civilian Protection Cluster munitions CNDP Codes of Conduct COIN Colombia Commission of Inquiry Common Article 3 Compliance conduct of hostilities conflict minerals conflict qualification control of territory counter-terrorism counterinsurgency courts COVID-19 crimes against humanity Cuba cultural property cyber warfare Damascus Darfur DDR DDRR de-escalation zones Deeds of Commitment de facto entities Democratic Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo derogations detainees Detention deterrence digital media digital media in armed conflict disabilities disarmament demobilization and reintegration disaster law dissemination dissmeination Doku Umarov Dominic Ongwen DRC drones drug cartels drugs Duko Umarov ECCC ECHR Economic dimensions of armed groups ECOWAS Ecuador education Egypt ELN El Salvador enforced disappearances Engagement environment Equality Eritrea ERN ETA Ethiopia EU everyday life extrajudicial killings extraterritorial application of human rights fair trial FARC FARD FDC FDLR Forces Nouvelles foreign fighters FPRC fragmentation France Frank Dodd Free Men of Syria Brigade Free Syrian Army FSA Fundamental Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace funding G8 Gaza gender Geneva Call Geneva Conventions Geneva II genocide geography Georgia Germany Ghana girls Goma governance Guantanamo Bay Guatemala guided light weapons Hamas Haqqani network Harakah al-Yaqin Hayat Tahrir al-Sham HCUA Hendu Hezb-e-Islami Hezbollah Hizbollah Homs hostilities Houthi Houthis HTs humanitarian access humanitarian assistance humanitarian dialogue human rights Human Rights Council human rights law human rights obligations IAC ICC ICRC ICTJ ICTR ICTY Idlib IHFFC IHL India Indonensia Indonesia informers intelligence intenrational human rights law international armed conflict international criminal court international criminal justice international criminal law international humanitarian law international human rights law internment Internvention Brigade Intervention Brigade IRA Iran Iraq Ireland IS ISIL ISIL. Iraq ISIL. ISIS ISIL. Turkey ISIS ISIS. Sri Lanka Islam and international humanitarian law Islamic Jihad Union Islamic law Islamic Movement of Azawad Islamic State Islamic State in Iraq and Levant Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Islamic State of Iraq Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Israel Ituri Ivory Coast Janjaweed Jaysh-al-Islam JEM job vacancy Jordan Joseph Kony journalists Jund al-Sham jus ad bellum Kabul Kachin Karen Karenni National Progressive Party/Karenni Army Kashmir Katanga Kenya khorasan KLA KNLA KNU/KNLA Kordofan Kosovo KRG Kurdistan Kurds landmines Latin America Lebanon Lebanon Tribunal legal basis Libay Liberia Libya limitations LNA LOAC localisation lower threshold LRA LTTE Lubanga Lubanga Trial M23 MAA Machar Mai-Mai Kifuafua Mai-Mai Nyatura Mai-Mai Simba Mai Mai Mai Mai Katanga Malaysia Mali Malia man-portable air defence systems Maoists Mau Mau Mayi Mayi Mayi Mayi Bakata Katanga mediation MEND mental health Mexico MH17 MIA MILF Minbar Ansar Deen mines Misrata Revolutionary Brigades MLC MNLA MNLF Mokhtar Belmokhtar MONUSCO Morocco Moro National Liberation Front Mozambique Mozamique MRM MRTA MUJAO MUJWA MUNUSMA Muslim Brotherhood Myanmar Myanmar/Burma Mynamar/ Burma National Army (Syria) National Democratic Front of the Philippines National Liberation Army National Salvation Front NATO natural resources NDC-R Nepal NES New Mon State Party/ Mon National Liberation Army New People's Army New Zealand nexus Ngudjolo Chui NIAC Nicaragua Niger Nigeria NOC non-international armed conflict non-lethal assistance North Caucasus Northern Ireland Norway NPA NPFL Ntaganda occupation Ogaden National Liberation Front OHCHR oil online event OPCW Organisation Osama Bin Laden OTP own forces Pakistan Pakistan Taliban Pakistqan Palestine Palestinian Authority Papua Papua New-Guinea Paraguay paramilitaries PARECO Participation in Development of Law peace agreement peace agreements peace agreemnt peacekeeping peace process peace processes People on War Peru Philippies Philippine Philippines pillage Pillay piracy PKK PLO Polisario Front positive obligations Prize protection Protection of Civilians protection of civilians in armed conflict protracted armed conflict protractedness requirement PULO Qatar QSIS qualification R2P radicalisation Raia Mutomboki ransoms Rapid Support Forces RCD-Goma rebel governance recognition reconciliation recruitment Red Shirts religion Ren Renama Renamo Renema reparation Reparations reprations restrictions right to peace RNSF Rohingas Rohingya Rohingyas RPF RUF Russia Rwanda S safe zones Sahel sanctions san remo satellites Saudi Saudi Arabia schools SCSL SDF Security Council Seleka self-defence Senegal Serbia Serdar Mohammed sexual violence Sharia Shining Path Sierra Leone Sinai SLA-AK SLA-AW SLA-MM SLM-AW SLM-MM small arms Small Arms Survey SNC Somali Somalia Somalia. Al-Shabaab South-Sudan South Africa Southern Transitional Council South Sudan South Sudan Democratic Movement/Army Spain special agreements SPLA SPLM SPLM-N SPLM-North SPM Abdelwahed SRF Sri Lanka SSA Sudan Sudanese Revolutionary Front Sudan Liberation Army Sudan Revolutionary Front Suriname Syira Syria Syria; Iraq Syria Revolutionary Front Syrican Commission of Inquiry Tajikistan Taliban Tamils Tanzania targeted killings Tehreek-e-Taliban terrorism Thailand the Netherlands threshold torture training transnational companies truth commissions Tuareg Tunesia Tunisia Turkey U.K. U.S U.S. Boko Haram U.S. Philippines UAE Uganda UK Ukraine ULFA ULIMO UN UNAMA UNAMID UNICEF unilateral declarations United Kingdom United States universal jurisdiction universities UN peacekeepers UNSC UNWRA UPC urban US USA Use of Force usufruct Venezuela victims victims' rights violence against healthcare violence against women war crimes water West Bank Western Sahara women women and armed conflict Yarmouk Martyrs Brigades Yazidis Yeman Yemen YPG