Children and paramedics were among at least 80 civilians killed in the incident, Declassified can reveal.

A multinational group meets this week at NATO headquarters in Belgium to discuss protections for civilians during combat. Even though the U.S. co-founded this effort, no American delegation will be in...

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.

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...

Attacks against dual-use objects could also be analysed under the more developed law on dual-purpose attacks.

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 UK government has been careful in not directly supporting the ongoing US-Israeli use of force against Iran. This is at least partly because (I’m sure) the internal view within the government is th...

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...

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 ...

Tribunal ruling follows Airwars investigation into Britain’s conduct in bombing campaign against IS in Syria and Iraq

Collection page gathering crucial resources on military actions during the Trump second term, and the impact on civilians

A refugee who blew the whistle on human trafficking argues that the refugee system prefers silence.

ACLED’s conflict data shed light on how governments and armed groups are changing the global political landscape.

For five months, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was the main distributor of food in Gaza. Backed by the United States and Israel, more than 1,000 people were allegedly killed seeking aid at it...

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 ...

Historical precedent and financial leverage indicate a negotiated route to delivering reparations for civilian harm in Ukraine is possible.

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In the third episode of the mini-series on Civilian Harm in Conflict, host Mae Thompson is joined by Erin Bijl (PAX, Dutch NGO) and Major Steven van de Put (Royal Netherlands Air Force, former student...

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

In the second episode of the mini-series on Civilian Harm in Conflict, host Mae Thompson from Ceasefire, the Center for Civilian Rights, explores the issue of reparations for victims of military actio...

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...