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Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. DEADLY USE OF CLUSTER MUNITIONS IN UKRAINE On 6…

Key Highlights More than 235,000 rations have been delivered between 6-30 June to Kakhovka dam flood-affected people. One WFP vessel carrying 30,000 mt of wheat for Sudan moved through the Black Sea maritime corridor in June as the…

Scenario 1: escalating Ukrainian military successes and internal tensions within Russia lead to a more aggressive Russian military strategy. Conflict escalates across Ukraine, and Russia indiscriminately targets civilian infrastructure. Air strikes increase throughout the country. Biological and…

Media Contact: Claire Garmirian +1.203.209.8545 (O) WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 8, 2023)—Save the Children is reaffirming its call that all parties to conflict end the use of cluster munitions after Friday’s announcement of U.S. military aid to Ukraine…

Responding to news that the US is to transfer cluster munitions to Ukraine, Patrick Wilcken, Amnesty International’s Researcher on Military, Security and Policing issues said: “Amnesty International has long stressed that cluster munitions are inherently indiscriminate weapons…

By Chiara Torelli on 7 Jul 2023 From 30 June to 06 July 2023, based on incident-specific English-language reporting, AOAV has recorded 137 incidents of explosive violence around the world, and 568 reported casualties. 448, or 79%…

Alexander Lobov, a military engineer and mine action expert with the UN Development Programme (UNDP), has worked in hotspots from Afghanistan to Somalia, but never imagined using this experience in his native country, Ukraine, now one…

1. Total civilian casualties From 24 February 2022, which marked the start of the large-scale armed attack by the Russian Federation, to 30 June 2023, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has…

Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) expresses deep concern over the civilian deaths resulting from the use of cluster munitions in Ukraine following a recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report. The report indicates that Russian forces have…

New Research Details Ukrainian Use of Widely Banned Weapon Ukrainian forces have used cluster munitions that caused deaths and serious injuries to civilians. Russian forces have extensively used cluster munitions, causing many civilian deaths and serious injuries. Cluster…