In June 2023, around 400 armed settlers stormed my town, Turmus Ayya, while Israeli soldiers stood by for at least fifteen minutes before entering. The settlers torched more than thirty homes and sixt...

Hegseth’s U-turn on decades of CHMR progress has contributed to more civilian casualties and left victims without access to repair and amends.

Is the Tigray peace agreement dead? Signed in 2022 under the auspices of the African Union, the Pretoria Agreement brought the armed conflict in Tigray to an end but has since failed to achieve meanin...

For more than a decade, many perpetrators of human rights abuses and international crimes in Libya behaved as though accountability simply did not apply to them. In a country fractured by division, do...

Revelation comes after report commissioned by department released in response to charity’s FoI request

A Ministry of Defence (MoD) review of the UK’s civilian harm framework has recommended new procedures to track and investigate harm to civilians in UK operations, strengthened use of open-source intel...

Preparations for LSCOs have led to a debate about whether the conduct of such operations requires modifying the prevailing approach to civilian protection.

International Women’s Day is often filled with celebration. Flowers. Panels. Campaigns. Words like empowerment and leadership. And those things matter. But today, I want to sit with something quieter ...

[Professor Luke Moffet is chair of human rights and international humanitarian law at Queen’s University Belfast and author of Algorithms of War (BUP 2026). Alannah Travers is a PhD student a…

The only certainty in the rapidly escalating conflict between the United States/ Israel and Iran is civilian harm on a mass scale, said Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights in a statement.With the sco...

Today marks four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, escalating an armed aggression ongoing since 2014. On this grim anniversary, Ukrainian artist and activist Anna Moskale...

On 3 February, Libyan presidential candidate Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was shot dead by a team of four masked gunmen in Zintan. His killing cannot be read as an isolated security incident, nor as merely a...

As the UK increases its defence spending and readiness for military deployment, it needs to be well prepared to mitigate and respond to civilian harm.

In Portcullis House on Tuesday, former Secretary of State for Defence Rt Hon Sir Ben Wallace told the Defence Committee that ‘there is always a danger with that organisation that they confuse elitism ...

The movement for human rights and justice has been growing around the world. But it has failed to reach some of those who need it most: civilians living under armed conflict or with governments that a...

On the twentieth anniversary of the Haditha massacre, justice for the victims is still out of reach. The way wars are fought may be changing, but the evasion of accountability remains a defining featu...

An officer tells the Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan UK Special Forces leadership was

Upholding humanity: The role of redress in preventing and responding to civilian harm

While the possibility of peace negotiations remains uncertain, Russia’s bombardment of Ukraine continues, with Ukrainian civilians coming under renewed attack. Civilians harmed by the conflict have a ...

by Yousif Mohamed - Sudan’s civil war, now in its third year, has torn the country apart. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), backed by foreign powers and ...

Blog Search Our blog aims to provide an inclusive platform for commentary and analysis which centres the rights, perspectives and lived realities of civilians affected by conflict. Posts reflect the v...

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Calls follow news that attorney general advised government to limit its involvement to defending allies

In the Israel-Hamas conflict, Israel has acknowledged that its attacks caused civilian casualties but has defended conduct as lawful on the basis that such casu

Ahead of the publication of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC), the Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights has signed a joint letter, published to...

Ahead of the annual Security Council Open Debate on Protection of Civilians on 22 May, the Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights and 20 other NGOs have released a joint statement calling on the interna...

Veterans who served with the SAS and SBS give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged executions.