Hostages
A hostage is a person seized by a criminal abductor in order to compel another party such as a relative, employer, law enforcement or government to act, or refrain from acting, in a certain way, often under threat of serious physical harm to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum. The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica defines a hostage as "a person who is handed over by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against certain acts of war."A person who seizes …
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RI: Rideau Institute · 26 March 2024 English
Though the resolution fell short of clearly demanding a ceasefire, Moscow and Beijing nevertheless enables Biden to shift the blame to Russia for the Council's inaction, even though Biden has …
"in connection with the release of all remaining hostages." This is an Israeli demand that is not likely … the release of all hostages, effectively making 2 million civilian Gazans hostages as well. Other operative … immediately grant humanitarian access to all remaining hostages," Rejecting "actions that reduce the territory …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 8 March 2024 English
The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …
lawfully convicted participants are now described as hostages by significant personalities inside the GOP. Potential … clearing smaller elements of resistance, finding hostages, and capturing high-level Hamas leaders, however … tried and sentenced in court, are somehow seen as “hostages” or political prisoners by key political players … emotively tied to how it was possible that so many hostages were taken. c) The Netanyahu strategy, which ironically … Strategic Outlook — 2024 in the context of the hostages. The frustration of the hostage families will …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 7 March 2024 English
The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …
lawfully convicted participants are now described as hostages by significant personalities inside the GOP. Potential … clearing smaller elements of resistance, finding hostages, and capturing high-level Hamas leaders, however … tried and sentenced in court, are somehow seen as “hostages” or political prisoners by key political players … emotively tied to how it was possible that so many hostages were taken. c) The Netanyahu strategy, which ironically … Strategic Outlook — 2024 in the context of the hostages. The frustration of the hostage families will …
ICP: Institute for Community Prosperity · 30 January 2024 English
Add to this the killings of thousands in each of the conflicts in Ethiopia, Myanmar and Yemen; the civil war in Sudan, with at least 9,000 killed and another 5.6 …
is now thoroughly obscured (and the rescue of hostages just as thoroughly undermined) by the scale and … of hostages, despite the recent temporary cessation of hos- tilities and the short-lived hostages-for-prisoners …
CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 9 January 2024 English
the contingent’s size, but in the political support it signaled. [...] In the case of the British hostages in Sierra Leone, as the crisis worsened and non-kinetic options fell away, all the necessary precon- … precon- ditions for a rescue operation gradually aligned, and when the threat to the hostages became intolerable, British authorities had a SOF-based option ready to go. [...] To this end, they might consider …
employing precision force that minimized risk to the hostages while neutralizing any pirates who fired their … and wounded ten, and prevented harm to sixteen hostages. Dutch SOF also developed methods to deal with … while respecting a national restriction on harming hostages or their captors. Operators avoided contact with … Afghanistan, Somalia, Niger, the Philippines, and Mali.) Hostages typically include people working in destabilized … lead to a release and that the seven remaining hostages were now in grave danger. A rescue attempt was …
AIC: Agricultural Institute of Canada · 1 January 2024 English
Call for Youth and Adolescent Recommendations on Accelerating the Achievement of Gender Equality and the Empowerment of All Women and Girls by Addressing Poverty and Strengthening Institutions and Financing with …
the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and sustained and unrestricted humanitarian 13 …
Yellowhead Institute · 20 December 2023 English
Since the inception of this project, we have From our perspective, the Legacy Calls to Action are the maintained that we are interested in Indigenous most important because they promise …
Israel-Gaza crisis,’’ as well as “the liberation of all hostages.” the time to deeply review and reect on our commitments …
RI: Rideau Institute · 13 December 2023 English
humanitarian ceasefire to provide access for humanitarian assistance and to call for the release of all hostages. [...] It obtained the affirmative votes of 13 of the 15 Council members but it failed to pass due …
assistance and to call for the release of all hostages. This resolution was co-sponsored by over 100 …
PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 28 November 2023 English
The most recent one is the death of the cameraman of the Al Qahera News channel and the injuries suffered by another journalist in the bombing against the surroundings of …
"I welcome the deal to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist group Hamas during its … supplies to go in and, of course, the release of all hostages. All of that has fallen on deaf ears insofar as … parties. - Fourth, the release of all civilian hostages. - Fifth, the resumption of a comprehensive dialogue … population of Gaza. It is also imperative that all hostages are released. We believe that there is a universal …
PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 19 November 2023 English
Over the past 36 days, the WHO has recorded at least 137 Israeli attacks on health care facilities in Gaza, resulting in the killing of 521 people and the injury …
without uniform [who] hides among the civilians as hostages, there's gonna be suicide bombers, there will … rally "for human rights, for the freedom of the hostages, and for an end to the hate we're facing today … ceasefire without calling for the return of the hostages and for Hamas to surrender. And so we absolutely …