April 9, 2025 [-/AFP via Getty Images] The UN human rights office is concerned about the protection of civilians in Lebanon as Israeli military operations have continued to kill civilians since the ceasefire came “Israeli military operations in Lebanon continue to kill and injure civilians, and destroy civilian infrastructure , raising concerns regarding the protection of civilians,” the spokesperson for the UN Office for the At least 71 civilians — including 14 women and nine children — have been killed by Israeli forces in

doctors group urges urgent international action By Adel Abdelrheem and Betul Yilmaz At least 31 Sudanese civilians It appealed to the international community to take urgent action to rescue the remaining civilians by RSF has been battling the Sudanese army forces for control of the country, resulting in thousands of deaths Research from US scholars, however, estimates the death toll at around 130,000.

Bodies of persons shot and killed by Israeli troops ordered to fire on Palestinian civilians seeking Intentionally shooting and killing unarmed civilians seeking food constitutes “a likely war crime” that “Desperate, hungry people in Gaza continue to face the inhumane choice of either starving to death or The official death toll of Israel’s war on Gaza, as reported by the Gaza Health Ministry, stands at more estimated that the real number is likely closer to 64,000 dead from direct attacks, with the number of deaths

        24 February 2025 marks the third year of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the civilian According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA ), more than 12,600 civilians

Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), oil during the - Copyright © africanews SOULEYMANE Several civilians Strategic Framework (CSP), an alliance of predominantly Tuareg armed groups, reported in a press release 14 deaths witnesses, speaking mostly on condition of anonymity for their safety, spoke of six, seven or nine deaths Since July, it has withdrawn nearly 6,000 civilian and uniformed personnel from Mali.

AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The  Rwanda -backed M23 armed group summarily executed at least 21 civilians Human Rights Watch verified the identities of six victims, all civilians and neighborhood residents.  Military commanders and civilian officials can also be held criminally liable for crimes committed by between the M23 and Rwandan forces against the Congolese military and allied armed groups has exposed civilians The court’s investigation should include the executions of civilians in Goma by M23 fighters, Human Rights

He added that artillery hit civilian areas. The Ethiopian Human Rights Council, the country’s oldest civil society group, put the total death toll at more than 80 civilians. humanitarian food in the region, where the federal ombudsman says dozens of people have starved to death Hundreds more starvation deaths have been reported in Tigray.

They have caused burning vehicles and bent trees where the deaths seem to have been concentrated.

But, the Trudeau government has shown this week that being a global leader on civilian protection means Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, some amounting to war crimes, have killed thousands of civilians and numerous abuses, too, including recruiting and deploying child soldiers and indiscriminately shelling civilian the conflict are using banned weapons like cluster munitions and landmines that may endanger Yemeni civilians The coalition’s pledges to credibly investigate these abuses itself and to minimize civilian harm have

(Photo by AFP) Five civilians were killed by bombs that “fell on their homes” in Khartoum, a Sudanese medical source told AFP, a day after an air strike in the city’s south killed at least 20 civilians. “The death toll from the aerial bombardment” in southern Khartoum late Saturday “has risen to 20 civilian The army has also been accused of abuses, including a July 8 air strike that killed around two dozen civilians

in northern Mali accused Malian soldiers, accompanied by Russian Wagner mercenaries, of killing 24 civilians In a statement on Monday evening, the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) said the civilians were travelling

HRW said Islamist armed groups and Malian soldiers killed at least 175 civilians, many of them children , between April and September, condemning the targeted killing of civilians as war crimes. The Al-Qaeda-linked Support Group for Islam and Muslims was responsible for the deaths of at least 135 civilians in two attacks, the New York-based HRW said. "The Malian government has failed to take adequate measures to protect civilians in conflict affected