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

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have accused the M23 rebel group and its allies of killing 50 civilians news agency that M23 was “carrying out massacres … the most recent of which is that of 50 Congolese civilians

The US and the UK accuse the Taliban of killing dozens of civilians in possible ‘war crimes’ in Spin falling to the Taliban as the United States and the United Kingdom accused the group of “massacring civilians “The Taliban massacred dozens of civilians in revenge killings. capitals – Lashkar Gah, Kandahar and Herat – after a weekend of heavy fighting that saw thousands of civilians

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

UN finds evidence of systematic attack on civilians ‘amounting to crimes against humanity’ in Myanmar collected since the military seized power on February 1 shows a widespread and systematic attack on civilians In determining that the crimes against civilians appear to be widespread and systematic, he said investigators

According to a toll issued last week by Human Rights Watch, more than 420 civilians have been killed

between the government and the Taliban began in September, even as overall deaths and injuries dropped In its annual report documenting civilian injuries and deaths, the United Nations’ mission in Afghanistan The 2,792 civilian casualties (891 deaths and 1,901 injuries) recorded in the final three months of 2020 Last year was the seventh consecutive year that the U.N. has documented more than 3,000 civilian deaths the report said — 120 civilian deaths and injuries, a decrease of 85 percent from 2019, when 786 casualties

Report reveals ‘acute rise’ in deaths and injuries since 1 May as Taliban exploit departure of foreign Photograph: Ghulamullah Habibi/EPA Record numbers of civilians have been killed and injured in Afghanistan The UN report is the first nationwide account of the impact of the fighting on civilians. casualties in the first six months of the year, with insurgent groups responsible for well over half of the deaths Improvised mines were the leading cause of casualties, responsible for more than one in three deaths

“The deliberate targeting of civilians, combined with the use of starvation, sexual violence, disappearance El Fasher and other parts of Darfur remain under siege, where civilians face relentless bombardment, “We are shocked by reports of civilians forced to eat animal fodder to survive, women and children being

and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) reaches its sixth month today, (15 October 2023), resulting in the deaths of at least 5,000 civilians, more than 12,000 injured, and over 5.7 million people forcibly displaced “Justice and accountability are essential for the protection of civilians. The report, ‘Death Came To Our Home’: War Crimes and Civilian Suffering In Sudan, documented mass civilian The report also details sexual violence against women and girls, targeted attacks on civilian objects