crisis, and yet the world has spent too much time closing its eyes to three years of atrocities and death “Prolonged armed conflict in Sudan has led to the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, caused the deaths of tens of thousands of Sudanese civilians and created a deteriorating regional security environment The SAF and allied militias—including entrenched Islamist elements—have likewise targeted civilians through

and Security Russian aerial attacks continue to intensify across Ukraine, exacting a rising toll on civilians Citing figures from the UN human rights office, OHCHR , he said civilian casualties reached a three-year high in June, with 6,754 civilians killed or injured in the first half of 2025 alone. Strikes in Russia The senior UN officials also expressed concern over reported civilian casualties from Jenča reiterated that “international law clearly prohibits attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure

, 2024, there was a further escalation, with continuous artillery bombardment leading to the tragic death Civilians must be protected under international laws. The deliberate engagement of conflict within civilian villages violates these principles. military or the Arakan Army to urgently address this issue and refrain from creating battlegrounds within civilian

Ali Report finds paramilitary group responsible for vast majority of attacks as conflict devastates civilian The attackers then targeted paramedics and civilians who rushed to assist victims in what authorities Since late October, the UN has documented at least 269 civilian deaths from bombardment, artillery fire

with dozens of countries warning an attack on the city could lead to a new wave of atrocities against civilians clear of military installations in the city, amid reports of daily drone attacks on army positions and civilian Sudan war escalates as 1,000 civilians killed in drone attacks this year, says UN “Life inside Al Obeid are deeply concerned at the risk of imminent escalation on the ground, leaving approximately 500,000 civilians to apply maximum pressure on the RSF and the Sudanese armed forces to prevent atrocities and protect civilians

as fears grow of wider conflict between government and Kurdish authorities The Syrian army ordered civilians volunteer civil defence group, helps people flee in Aleppo.Photograph: Ghaith Alsayed/AP About 140,000 civilians At least eight civilians have been killed in the Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods, and seven civilians sides accused the other of human rights violations, with the Syrian government claiming the SDF used civilians Supporters of the government were outraged as pictures of civilians allegedly killed by SDF shelling

allied with bandits hijacked a passenger train on route from Kaduna to Abuja and kidnapped over 2 dozen civilians In the first 3 months of 2022, jihadists murdered over 6000 civilians, the vast majority of whom were Islamist-inspired mobs have accused Christian girl students of “blasphemy” and stoned them to death. 2022 in Sokoto, Deborah Immanuel, a student, was accused of blasphemy by fellow students and stoned to death Military campaigns to defeat Boko Haram & ISWAP have killed hundreds of civilians, garnering more support

Targeted killings of civilians in western Sudan increasingly resemble the horrors of 20 years ago, survivors (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters) ADRE REFUGEE CAMP, Chad — Twenty years after the Darfur genocide began, the Twenty years ago, Muhammad’s mother, Fatima, lost her parents in the genocide, and now Muhammad too has Many of the attacks have involved systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure and local populations injuries and deaths.

impartial international rights monitors such as the Yale University Humanitarian Research Lab of attacking civilian Four years ago, Sudan’s military coup crushed a new civilian government before democracy could take root other in April 2023, with an estimated 150,000 killed and half the population displaced as they bomb civilians responsible for sexual and gender-based violence on a massive scale, and the deliberate targeting of civilians The international community should support the rise of a strong, democratically elected civilian government

“The smell of death was everywhere,” said Dr. Filippo Grandi, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, said: “Twenty years ago, the world was In an emailed response to questions, it blamed Sudan’s army for the recent deaths in El Geneina, accusing it of shelling civilian neighborhoods. “The sheer number of deaths, the scale of the devastation in Darfur and the lack of attention show how

That estimate of the deaths in Geneina massacres has been revised by Reuters and independent investigators A joint UN-AU peacekeeping force, UNAMID, was established in 2007 with a mandate to protect civilians in 2021 which removed civilians from government. In December 2022, the civilian opposition, General Burhan, and Hemeti signed a "new framework" which Since then, over 1000 civilians have been killed and more than 4,000 have been wounded in Khartoum and

"A terrorist attack cost six civilians their lives in Alga," a town in the province of Bam, on Saturday A government statement Sunday confirmed the attack, saying a death toll had not yet been established After a relative lull, jihadist attacks resumed, inflicting a toll of more than 200 civilians and military deaths over the past three months. © 2022 VOA NEWS