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2022 brought new wars and the continuation of old ones. But it also brought some real advances in the protection of civilian rights. Here are ten of the most important, many of which involved efforts from @CeasefireCentre over the last 3 years:
#PoC #IHL #NotATarget
#PoC #IHL #NotATarget
1. For decades the poor cousin of criminal prosecutions, #reparations awards took centre stage in 2022, incl. a ground-breaking #ICJ judgment in Feb ordering Uganda to pay $325m for armed activities and mass violations on territory of #DRCongo
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Tonight we will join @scottishwilpf, along with @iainoverton and @msominogue to examine what should happen next on #EWIPA, after 80 states signed on to an international declaration aimed at limiting their use in November
By signing on to the declaration, each state recognised the extremely harmful effects such weapons have on civilians. Our recent project mapping
urban conflict have shown, once again, just how harmful #EWIPA are to civilians caught in conflict
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urban conflict have shown, once again, just how harmful #EWIPA are to civilians caught in conflict
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Yet any declaration is only as good as its implementation and now comes the time for states and nations to incorporate the declaration into their national policy frameworks.
Our incoming director @Emily_4319 addresses the #EWIPA delegations on the final day of this round of consultations
Underpinning these negotiations is an international acknowledgement that we must move beyond a status quo where 'collateral damage' is an accepted and inevitable consequence of modern conflict, without a critical understanding of what this means for those civilians on the ground.
We have also heard throughout these negotiations a call for a declaration that is “realistic”; But with a lack of a shared mechanism for tracking and monitoring the civilian harm from military action, how can we know what the reality is?
Day 3, the final day, of this round of crucial #EWIPA talks in Geneva.
This thread, updated by our team of
@Emily_4319 Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen, @sanjanamv
and @georgiaedwardz will keep you up to date on the final day of these crucial talks.
This thread, updated by our team of
@Emily_4319 Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen, @sanjanamv
and @georgiaedwardz will keep you up to date on the final day of these crucial talks.
You can also catch up on our Day 2 coverage here -
Our head of research and incoming director @Emily_4319 speaks during the #EWIPA negotiations : "Civilians know when harm takes place and often are able to identify who is the perpetrator of that harm ; they are reporting on it at scale and in real time."
"Ukraine is just one example of how civilians are reporting on and documenting the horrors of war, even as they are living under it."
"To date, our organisation alone has assessed and archived over 100,000 unique local sources across eight conflicts alleging civilian harm resulting from the use of EW, many of which happened in populated areas."
Day 2 of crucial #EWIPA talks in Geneva.
This thread, updated by our team of @Emily_4319 Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen, @sanjanamv and @georgiaedwardz will keep you up to date on the second day of these crucial talks.
This thread, updated by our team of @Emily_4319 Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen, @sanjanamv and @georgiaedwardz will keep you up to date on the second day of these crucial talks.
You can find Day 1 of our coverage here -
The first delegation to speak is the UK, saying, "The UK would like to clarify that there isn’t a general obligation in international law to hold accountable those responsible for violations."
Day 1 of crucial #EWIPA talks in Geneva.
This thread, updated by our team of @Emily_4319 Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen, @sanjanamv and @georgiaedwardz will keep you up to date on the crucial talks
This thread, updated by our team of @Emily_4319 Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen, @sanjanamv and @georgiaedwardz will keep you up to date on the crucial talks
@Emily_4319 @sanjanamv @georgiaedwardz Nujeen Mustafa, a Syrian who fled Aleppo after it was largely destroyed by explosive weapons, addresses delegates:
“While you’ve been negotiating whether a declaration should be made, 11,076 people have fallen victim to these weapons" she says
“While you’ve been negotiating whether a declaration should be made, 11,076 people have fallen victim to these weapons" she says
Ukraine is the first nation to speak to the delegations at #EWIPA, saying “Ukraine is on everyone’s mind these days…Entire cites and towns have been turned into ash because of use of explosive weapons in populated areas.”
We're seeing increasingly heavy shelling of residential areas in #Ukarine. Alongside the massive civilian costs of the use of explosive force in cities, we also need to consider how this indiscriminate practice impacts the environment, and as a result, human health. 🧵🔽 1/x
2/x When buildings are hit, building materials are pulverised, generating large volumes of dust. PBM dusts are typically a heterogeneous mixture of materials, such as cement, metals, PCBs, silica, asbestos and other synthetic fibres. ceobs.org/conflict-rubbl…
3/x In spite of this being an issue in every conflict where heavy weapons are used in populated areas, research on these dusts and exposures is largely absent, as with most chronic health exposures linked to conflict.
Explosive weapons w/wide-area effects used in populated areas cont. to cause immediate & long-term harm to civilians.
@hrw's latest report on violations by Houthi forces in #Yemen's Marib governorate lays bare the devastating consequences of #EWIPA
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@hrw's latest report on violations by Houthi forces in #Yemen's Marib governorate lays bare the devastating consequences of #EWIPA
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.@hrw details how Houthis fired artillery & ballistic missiles indiscriminately into populated areas in Marib. The attacks
▪️ Killed/injured scores of civilians
▪️ Destroyed/damaged: homes, the only major hospital in Al-Abdiya district & telecomm cables
▪️ Triggered displacement
▪️ Killed/injured scores of civilians
▪️ Destroyed/damaged: homes, the only major hospital in Al-Abdiya district & telecomm cables
▪️ Triggered displacement
The death and devastation caused by these attacks was no anomaly.
@hrw, members of the @explosiveweapon network, and more, have repeatedly documented similar harm both in Yemen and elsewhere when #EWIPA with wide-area effects are used in populated areas.
@hrw, members of the @explosiveweapon network, and more, have repeatedly documented similar harm both in Yemen and elsewhere when #EWIPA with wide-area effects are used in populated areas.
In focusing on the security risks of #ClimateChange have we neglected to ask how conflicts affect emissions? Our new overview explores how the environmental and social changes that occur in war influence emissions, and why we need to track them ceobs.org/how-does-war-c… 🔽 1/7
The direct emissions in conflict are the most obvious, for example attacks on oil infrastructure, or scorched earth policies. But we also see significant changes to land use that have a major bearing on whether areas store or release carbon. 2/7
Peace can also generate emissions, we almost always see spikes in deforestation, and we need to factor in the emissions costs of managing conflict debris and of reconstruction. Conflicts impede environmental governance, which also has a bearing on emissions. 3/7 #EWIPA
2020 was a busy year for Airwars EU Advocacy. In the Netherlands we began a so-called Roadmap Process with the Dutch MoD, engaged with Belgium and spoke with Dutch, French & German MPs on the reverberating effects of explosive weapons in populated areas. airwars.org/news-and-inves…
In the Netherlands, Airwars followed the Hawija airstrike accountability process & reviewed declassified information released by MoD that a Dutch official was aware that the expected damage from the strike could be greater than Collateral Damage Estimate.
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Airwars with NGOs, academics & Dutch Defensie drafted a Roadmap through which Defensie might review and improve transparency & accountability on civilian harm. The starting session took place in November and will be followed by four practical sessions.
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