New blog post: The war in Tigray led to the death of up to 600,000 Tigrayans. Nearly four years after the signing of a peace agreement, millions face humanitarian crisis and continue to wait for justice. Hanna Hagos discusses the agreement's failures and the need for stronger international support.

A slow death for Tigray with no peace dividend?

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...

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HAPPENING TOMORROW: In-person event on women and girls living under occupation. With brilliant speakers Margaret Owen OBE, Amira Nimerawi, Dr. Eva Khair, Alisa Kovalenko and Simav Hasan. Last few spots: www.eventbrite.com/e/women-girl...

🗓️ In-person event at our London office on 30 June. Join Ceasefire and @newlinesinst.bsky.social to hear from speakers from four conflict situations to discuss the unique challenges of living under occupation. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/women-girl...

From Mitiga to The Hague. A new piece I wrote for @ceasefirecentre.bsky.social on the El Hishri case, victim participation, and accountability in Libya after years of impunity. I also reflect on attending the hearings firsthand. Read here: www.ceasefire.org/from-mitiga-...

From Mitiga to The Hague: What Does the El Hishri Case Mean for Libya’s Victims? - The Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights

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...

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🗓️ May 20! Join us for an event at #POCWeek2026: Centring Civilian Agency and Community-Led Protection in an Era of Constraints, Austerity and Impunity ⬇️ Register before May 18: tinyurl.com/5n8ytm84 #NotATarget #ActForHumanity

UK Ministry of Defence's own report released after FOI request by Ceasefire: MoD has no system to detect civilian deaths caused by military

MoD has no system to detect civilian deaths caused by military, study shows

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

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UK MoD has released to Ceasefire and @airwars.bsky.social a summary of an independent review of its civilian harm framework, confirming our concerns: no unified CHMR policy, no civilian harm tracking, no formalised investigation procedures and no operational amends mechanisms.

UK MoD review recommends strengthening procedures on civilian harm mitigation and response - The Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights

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...

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Yes! We still have a long way to go on Ukraine #reparations, but this is major step forward

Mark Lattimer@mglattimer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: Compensation to harmed individuals now formally included in the EUR 90 billion Ukraine support loan just agreed by EU. Recall that the loan is only repayable on receipt of war #reparations from Russia, giving the EU a direct interest in Russia paying up. www.consilium.europa.eu/fr/press/pre...

We’re told we must accept much higher civilian casualties in large-scale combat operations. But what if that is based on a false assumption? My latest for @articlesofwar.bsky.social lieber.westpoint.edu/challenging-...

Challenging Common Assumptions About Civilian Protection in Large-Scale Combat Operations - Lieber Institute West Point

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

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Writing on International Women's Day last week, Meyss Sattouf reflects on the strength and resilience of women affected by conflict around the world. '...women living through conflict, crisis and marginalisation are not passive victims. They are active agents of survival and change...'

One suitcase, one tent, one world: On International Women’s Day

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 ...

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AWS in the Cross-Hairs: Data Centres as Targets - what are the legal obligations in targeting data centres? #IHL #IranWar opiniojuris.org/2026/03/12/a...

AWS in the Cross-Hairs: Data Centres as Targets

[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…

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The only certainty in the war between US/Israel and Iran is mass civilian harm www.ceasefire.org/mass-civilia...

Mass civilian harm the only certainty in war between US/Israel and Iran

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...

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As Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, the immense civilian toll continues to grow. Writing for our blog, Ukrainian artist and activist Anna Moskalets shares how these four years have altered her life, her art, and her understanding of resistance.

War must not become the new normal: Art, solidarity and resistance four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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...

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Assassinating Justice in Libya My latest piece for @ceasefirecentre.bsky.social Read it here 👇🏽 www.ceasefire.org/assassinatin...

Assassinating justice in Libya

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...

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The laws of war exist to protect civilians. But even when the rules are followed, civilians are harmed. That's why we're calling on the UK government to strengthen its approach to civilian harm mitigation and response.

UK military has no comprehensive system to mitigate or respond to civilian harm caused by its own operations. See our full report ‘Civilian harm mitigation in large-scale combat operations: Lessons fo...

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.

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I sat in on the Defence Committee last week as former ministers were questioned about the MoD's Afghan data breach. In my latest blog post for @ceasefirecentre.bsky.social, I consider what the data breach and superinjunction reveal about the culture inside the MoD and what needs to change.

In a world of rising conflict, Ceasefire exists to protect and promote civilian rights. Will you help us to achieve more? Please consider donating this #GivingTuesday.

20 years after 24 Iraqi civilians were killed by US Marines in Haditha, new blog post by Alannah Travers remembers the victims and reflects both on the need for justice and to address the dynamics that enabled the atrocity, as well as on how new tech risks deepening patterns of dehumanisation.

Afghan Inquiry publishes redacted evidence from closed hearings in 2024 involving former Special Forces members, after refusing the MoD’s request to delay release. Newly published docs reveal the Inquiry was told UKSF leadership suppressed evidence of possible war crimes.

Special Forces heads suppressed SAS war crime evidence, inquiry hears

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

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Can civil justice, operational learning and civilian agency help close the IHL enforcement gap? Our new IRRC article explores the role of redress in upholding IHL principles and preventing civilian harm. Read it in full: doi.org/10.1017/S181...

A new report by @ceasefirecentre.bsky.social finds the UK is ill-prepared to protect civilians from harm during future UK military operations. Airwars’ Policy Specialist lays out noticeable gaps in the UK approach to tracking, mitigating, & responding to such harm. airwars.org/civilian-har...

OUT NOW: Our new report finds UK defence is ill-prepared to protect civilians from harm from UK military operations. Full report: www.ceasefire.org/uk-defence-i...

We've joined almost 300 organisations to express our support for the ECHR 🔽

Liberty@libertyhq.bsky.social · 9mo ago

75 years since the European Convention on Human Rights was signed, it’s still protecting us all. That’s why almost 300 organisations are calling on our government and politicians to REJECT the harmful claim that human rights aren’t in the public interest. #echr #humanrights

How can the UK prepare to protect civilians from its military actions in a volatile world? Join us this Wednesday for the launch of our new report. ▶️ QUB Moot Court, 5 November @ 5pm RSVP: bit.ly/4ntCRDS @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @airwars.bsky.social

Join us as we launch our latest report for a discussion at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social on how the UK can prepare to protect civilians from its own actions in a volatile world. ▶️ Moot Court, 5 November @ 5pm RSVP: bit.ly/4ntCRDS

We join survivors and survivor-led organisations in calling for the UNSG to list the Russian state actors responsible for well-documented patterns of sexual violence in his Annual Report.

All Survivors Project@allsurvivorspro.bsky.social · 9mo ago

ASP joins 26 other organisations to urge the Secretary General of the UN to list Russian state actors in the annex of the forthcoming Annual Report on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence. 🔗Read the full letter: allsurvivorsproject.org/urgent-call-...

With civilians in #Ukraine facing renewed attacks and peace talks still uncertain, how can the UK ensure its support is truly victim-centred? New blog post by Samantha Perren out now: www.ceasefire.org/how-can-the-...

Important call that we have joined 🔽 Reparations are a right.

Global Survivors Fund@glsurvivorsfund.bsky.social · 10mo ago

As the EU considers using seized Russian assets for a reparations loan to Ukraine, GSF and allies urge that at least 2% be allocated to survivors of conflict-related sexual violence and other human rights violations. Read the full call to action here: www.globalsurvivorsfund.org/latest/artic...

Important call that we have joined 🔽 Reparations are a right.

Global Survivors Fund@glsurvivorsfund.bsky.social · 10mo ago

As the EU considers using seized Russian assets for a reparations loan to Ukraine, GSF and allies urge that at least 2% be allocated to survivors of conflict-related sexual violence and other human rights violations. Read the full call to action here: www.globalsurvivorsfund.org/latest/artic...

As RSF attacks on Sudan's besieged city of El Fasher intensify, Yousif Mohamed argues that remote and civilian-led monitoring and documentation efforts should be supported and used to guide policy responses. New blog post out now: