Civilian Harm

Weapons' use and impact on civilians and combatants varies across genders - meaning States must undertake gender-sensitive reviews of new weapons.

Tactical, short-sighted measures are not sufficient to prevent further worsening of conditions. A new approach is needed to meet the moment.

Геноцид і масові звірства є руйнівними, але відворотними.

With a new strategy and advances in early warning analysis, efforts to identify and respond to atrocity risks can help save future lives.

Failing to ensure reparations for civilian harm is choosing to impose the war’s costs on those who had no say in the decision to go to war.

Mechanisms are needed to assess civilian harm resulting from U.S. arms sales to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.

On June 17, states gathered at the United Nations (U.N.) in Geneva to discuss the final draft of a potentially ground-breaking political declaration that sets new and express standards…

Recent escalation of violence in eastern DRC has already displaced over 150,000 civilians and killed at least 23.

A book by former UN Special Representative Ian Martin offers lessons from a decade-old intervention that remain relevant today.

A singular focus by the US and partners on power-sharing and elections to end the war has instead bred famine and a violent kleptocracy.

Any policy on civilian protection that lack a robust plan for working with partners would be incomplete. New frameworks, tools, and capabilities are needed to support partners…

A media-human rights investigation shows the US may be ignoring data showing the likelihood that its aid went to units implicated in abuses.