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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Day 2 of the Second International Follow-Up Conference on EWIPA kicks off in San José We’re about to start Session 4: From policy to action, focused on operational practices and training to strengthen civilian protection — moderated by @annieshiel.bsky.social. #StopBombingCivilians #EWIPA

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Today marks Day 1 of the Second International EWIPA Follow-Up Conference in San José, Costa Rica. INEW stands with states, international organizations, and civil society to advance the Political Declaration and reduce civilian harm. #StopBombingCivilians

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

We’re about to begin the Protection Forum in Costa Rica, a space to discuss civilian harm, share experiences, and strengthen action under EWIPA. Stay tuned for updates, speakers’ insights, and highlights throughout the day. #StopBombingCivilians

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

1/2 Muhannad Alnajjar was 14 years old when explosive violence began in Syria in 2012. Throughout the war, the Syrian government and other parties to conflict made extensive use of #explosiveweapons in urban areas.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 23/06/2025

A Russian missile and drone attack killed at least 10 people in Ukraine’s Kyiv and Kyiv region on June 23, 2025. Targeted and deliberately indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian objects are war crimes.

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

To save lives from the use of #ExplosiveWeapons In Populated Areas #EWIPA, we must act before, during & after conflict. On June 11-12, @hi-federation.bsky.social held an impactful workshop on Explosive Ordnance Risk Education #EORE and Conflict Preparedness and Protection #CPP in EWIPA settings 1/3

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

1/5 📅 Today is World Refugee Day The use of #explosiveweapons in populated areas is a key driver of displacement, owing to the devastating consequences on civilians and civilian infrastructure that is essential to their survival. #WorldRefugeeDay

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

1/3 Remarks from UNICEF on “Protecting Water in Armed Conflict” and “Protecting Civilian Lives” said that "Water infrastructure is especially vulnerable when conflict parties use #explosiveweapons in populated areas.”

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

1/4 Missile strikes between #Israel and #Iran over the past five days have resulted in the death of many civilians. Iranian missile strikes on 15 June hit Tel Aviv Haifa and Bat Yam and Israeli airstrikes on 13 and 14 June hit residential buildings in Tehran.

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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

2/2 #InsecurityInsight recorded incidents affecting aid operations and workers in 16 countries and territories - 90% of which occurred in Palestine. ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu

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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

1/2 #Explosiveweapons were used in at least 1,631 attacks affecting humanitarian aid operations, aid workers and camps in 2024 - nearly five times more than the previous year. #EWIPA

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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Almost two-thirds of all civilian deaths globally from explosive weapons in 2024 occurred in Palestine where civilians continued to be killed at a high rate following a year of unprecedented civilian death and injury in 2023. #EWIPA ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

1/3 The UN Secretary General’s 2025 Protection of Civilians Report, highlights widespread harm caused to civilian and civilian infrastructure, including from the use of heavy explosive areas in populated areas and as a result of unexploded ordnance and improvised explosive devices. #PoCWeek2025

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Join the #PoCWeek2025 Side Event TODAY on Protecting Civilians from the Humanitarian Consequences of the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas (EWIPA) ➡️ bit.ly/poc2025ewipa #StopBombingCivilians #NotATarget

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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It remains a critical humanitarian priority to bring the #EWIPA Declaration into effect to prevent and reduce harm to civilians, finds @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social #EWM2024. To do so, states should endorse and implement the Declaration and avoid the use of #EWIPA. ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024

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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

@WeaponsMonitor finds alarming levels of civilian harm from the use of explosive weapons in 2024, with harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure occurring in at least 74 countries and territories. ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu #InsecurityInsight

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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🔔 New Report! Explosive Weapons Monitor 2024 This report takes stock of harm to civilians from the use of explosive weapons across the globe in 2024 and identifies state and non-state actors reportedly responsible for this use. ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu #InsecurityInsight

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

1/4 The humanitarian situation in Gaza has been significantly exacerbated as a result of the use of #explosiveweapons in populated areas. A new offensive has resulted in devastating harm to civilians and vital infrastructure they depend on.

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

💥#Children are vulnerable to #MentalHealth impacts of #ExplosiveWeapons, which disrupt their development. ❌ The chaos of conflict also hinders their #AccessToHealth, incl vaccines, treatments for childhood diseases, malnutrition, & water-borne illnesses. #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments

Visual (c)HI: In Ukraine, an estimated 1.5 million children are at risk of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. (AOAV, 2023)

Visual (c)HI: #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments

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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

📢 1/4 Vol. 3, Issue 1 of Fragments: Explosive Weapons Monitor Quarterly is out now! bit.ly/4iZpaua

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

📢 Local #HealthWorkers are vital to deliver healthcare in areas impacted by #ExplosiveWeapons. To support them, govts, donors & humanitarian actors must prioritize ✅Protection from attacks ✅#MentalHealth support ✅Inclusion of local actors in coordination #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments

Visual (c)HI: Y.Nateel/HI. In Jabila Camp, Gaza, a physical therapist provides rehabilitation services to a child injured by shrapnel from a tank shell.

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#HealthWorkers, especially local professionals and volunteers, are on the front lines in areas where #ExplosiveWeapons are used. 🚨Yet, their security risks & mental health challenges often go unaddressed in response efforts. #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments #AccessToHealth

Visual (c)HI: In 2023, local staff represented 84% of health workers killed by explosive weapons globally. (Insecurity Insight, 2024)

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

🚑#HealthWorkers are directly affected by the use of #ExplosiveWeapons, facing threats as civilians & medical staff working in dire conditions. 🔴 Their killing, mental trauma, displacement undermine health systems' capacities to respond to populations' needs. #EwipaDeclaration #RightToHealth

Visuel (c)HI: “I have a family. I am working in unsafe circumstances. My colleagues and I are being targeted to destroy the health systems. I'm a refugee now, I'm displaced, so (…) I need to stand in a queue for water, to search for food, or for different things to provide my family with the minimum living conditions that they require every day in this situation. (…).” (KII, Gaza, September 2024)

Visuel (c)HI: #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

In April, the Russian Federation significantly intensified missile strikes on densely populated cities of Ukraine. Sustained large-scale attacks by armed forces have killed and injured civilians. #EWIPA #StopBombingCivilians Read here ⬇️

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

📢Populations affected by #ExplosiveWeapons need #MentalHealth support. ✅ Governments and donors must invest in stronger policies and funding to integrate long-term mental health services into healthcare responses. #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments #RightToHealth

Visual (c)HI: Soudanese women, refugees in Chad, attend a discussion group to receive psychosocial first aid and deal with their trauma due to armed conflict. M.Monier/HI

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

When #ExplosiveWeapons are used, affected population need #MentalHealth support. Yet it is very limited or absent in conflict settings, because of: ❌ pre-existing lack of services /specialists, 💥 extreme service disruption, ⚠️ stigma &discrimination. #EwipaDeclaration #RightToHealth

Visual (c)HI: "In Gaza, one of the only two psychiatrists was killed during the conflict. (Think Global Health, 2024)"

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Relentless bombing causes long-term damage to #MentalHealth. 🚨 Injuries, loss of loved ones, fear, lack of shelter, and the invisible threat of unexploded ordnance are sources of extreme distress. 🚨 Children are particularly impacted. #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments

Visuel (c)HI: "There is a Gaza syndrome. It is more than PTSD, more than depression, more than trauma.” (KII, Gaza, September 2024)"

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

“The city of Sumy in north-eastern Ukraine is constantly hit by attacks. #Shelling and sheltering are a part of daily life for children in this city scarred by #bombardment.” ➡️ www.unicef.org/ukraine/en/s... #StopBombingCivilians #EWIPA

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“I was hit by a piece of shrapnel.”

Children in Sumy injured by a deadly Palm Sunday attack

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

#Rehabilitation & #AssistiveTechnologies must be priorities! 📢 Govts, donors, humanitarian actors must: ✅ Recognize rehab as a critical part of humanitarian response, ✅ Provide it for all those in need, ✅Connect trauma care, rehab & long-term support. #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments

© A. Rahhal / HI: Mohamed, in the province of Idleb. In 2020, while he was playing in his garden, a remaining explosive device exploded under his feet. His lower right leg had to be amputated. He is undergoing rehabilitation at the Aqrabat hospital, an HI partner in Syria.

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

#ExplosiveWeapons cause complex injuries that demand urgent #rehabilitation & #AssistiveTechnologies, like brain & spinal trauma, amputations... 💣After conflicts, unexploded ordnance continues to harm civilians. 📢 #RehabMatters ! #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments

Visuel (c)HI: Approx. 3 million Syrians have been injured, and almost half of them have permanent impairments, including 86,000 amputations. (HI and WHO, 2017)

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

#ExplosiveWeapons devastate already underfunded #Rehabilitation services: destroying facilities, endangering specialists, leaving survivors without care. 🚨 Often, #rehab is overlooked in emergency responses, despite its life-changing impact. #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments #RehabMatters

Visuel (c)HI: In Gaza, 84% of health and rehabilitation facilities have been damaged. (Protection Cluster oPt, 2024)

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

1/6 In the last week, Israeli #airstrikes have further exacerbated already limited access to healthcare and medical treatment in #Gaza. #explosiveweapons

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

⚠#ExplosiveWeapons are the 1st cause of civilian deaths in conflict. They: ➡️ destroy hospitals & block #AccessToHealth ➡️ cause injuries, needing lifelong rehabilitation ➡️ cause severe mental health issues ➡️ create lasting danger, due to unexploded ordnance #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments

Visuel (c)HI: "I got to the hospital in a normal car but there was no room for me so I was taken to another hospital. (…) It took 12 hours to get there due to the multiple roadblocks and security checks. (…) Surgeries were done in every empty space available at the hospital, it was covered in blood. Doctors have to deal with war injuries but they are not prepared as it is not something that they have learnt.” (Marwa Almbaed, Survivor advocate, Syria, November 2024)

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

📢 Governments must take action! ✅ Condemn attacks on health infrastructure & workers ✅ Strengthen international efforts to protect healthcare in conflict zones ✅ Support survivors & their communities ✅ Provide flexible funding to meet health needs #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments

Visual (c)HI : Maternity wing of Raqqa hospital in Syria. The destructions show the consequences of the use of explosive weapons in urban area.

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

1/2 In a joint press release by the UN Special Representatives of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and on Violence against Children, Virginia Gamba and Najat Maalla M’jid have stated the need for “urgent protection and security.”

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Displaced, starved, killed, robbed of a childhood: children in Sudan are paying the highest price of two years of brutal conflict – Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for C...

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

1/2 The missile strikes on Palm Sunday in Sumy, Ukraine have killed 35 people with 129 injured. The attack came just over a week after a similarly devastating strike in Kryvyi Rih that killed 19 people including nine children. #EWIPA #StopBombingCivilians

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UN denounces deadly Palm Sunday attack in Ukraine

The United Nations has condemned the Russian attack on the city of Sumy, Ukraine, on Sunday which reportedly killed at least 34 people, including two children, and injured more than 100 others.

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Humanity & Inclusion - Advocacy @hi-advocacy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

📢 Civilians are not a target! @hi-federation.bsky.social deplores the increase of bombings on populated areas in Ukraine. We condemn these attacks which violate intl. humanitarian and intl. human rights law. Read our statement following yesterday's deadly strike: @explosiveweapon.bsky.social

HI condemns the deadly missile strikes in Sumy, Ukraine on Palm Day. Yesterday, Sunday 13 April, a Russian missile strike killed at least 34 people and injured around 100 people, including children, in Sumy, Ukraine, according to local emergency services. The missiles hit two buildings: the University of Sumy and a supermarket, at a time when they were very busy as families were celebrating Palm Sunday. This is the second attack in less than a month on this city. On 24 March, a previous missile strike injured 74 civilians, a quarter of whom were children.

In recent months, there has been an increase in the number of bombings on populated areas in Ukraine. The consequences on civilians are terrible: serious injuries and even death, destruction of vital infrastructure, long-term psychological trauma.
HI strongly denounces the harm caused to civilians by bombing and shelling of towns and cities taking place in the current Russian/Ukrainian war as they are all violations to international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
Civilians are not a target. Their protection is our priority.

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

1/6 Today marks two years of conflict in #Sudan where civilians continue to bear the brunt. The indiscriminate bombardment of civilian areas has further exacerbated the humanitarian crisis, leading to destruction of civilian infrastructure and provision of essential services.

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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

1/2 The UN has issued a call for urgent, continued action to tackle the explosive ordnance crisis in Sudan, to protect civilians. The use of #explosiveweapons in populated areas poses a threat and risk long after initial impact and can affect civilians for generations.

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