AOAV: all our reports
18 Jun 2021Over 40 civilian casualties in regime attack on Aleppo hospital
Afrin city in Aleppo, northern Syria, has seen a sharp rise in regime attacks and civilian casualties this month, June 2021. On Saturday 12 June, regime shelling struck Afrin’s al-Shifaa hospital, killing at least 18 people, 17 of whom were civilians, and injuring 23 others. Among the 41 casualties were a doctor, three hospital staff, […]
17 Jun 2021Car bomb explosion in Colombia military base injures 36
A car bomb detonated inside a military base in Colombian border city Cucuta injures 36 people
9 Jun 2021Targeted shooting of mine clearers in Baghlan province, Afghanistan
The targeted shootings of mine clearers by unidentified gunmen in Baghlan province, Afghanistan, on Wednesday 9 June 2021 has left at least 10 mine clearance workers dead and over a dozen injured.
1 Jun 2021Blasts from the Recent Past: a narrative of a decade of explosive violence
A narrative report on a decade of explosive violence where AOAV has recorded 357,370 deaths and injuries by explosive weapons in some 28,879 incidents. 73% of these casualties, 262,413, were civilians.
1 Jun 2021Six years after rockets fell on Mariupol, scars still remain
On 24th January 2015, a barrage of rockets were fired into a small district in eastern Ukraine. Thirty-one people were killed – two of them children – and more than 100 were injured.
26 May 2021The Politics of Torture and the Erosion of Truth
Oleksandra Matviychuk paints a troubling picture of a Russian tactic designed to undermine democratic rule in eastern Ukraine
26 May 2021A list of children killed in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (10 May- 21st May 2021)
Since the 10 May, at least 75 children have been reported killed in the Gaza strip and in Israel. Their deaths were mostly by explosive weapons. 73 of these children were killed in Gaza. 2 were killed in Israel.
25 May 2021A Fixer’s War: Inside the Life of the Unsung Hero of Foreign Reporting
Anton Skyba was arrested and tortured for being a 'fixer' to international media in Eastern Ukraine. This is his story.
25 May 2021A Decade of Explosive Violence Harm, 2011-2020
In this report, Action on Armed Violence presents the findings from ten years’ worth of data (2011 – 2020) collected as part of AOAV’s Explosive Violence Monitoring Project (EVMP).
20 May 2021UN Secretary-General points to devastating impact of explosive weapons on civilians in latest annual report, citing AOAV data
For the twelfth year running, the UN General Secretary's report on the protection of civilians in conflict emphasises the inordinate level of civilian harm that occurs when explosive weapons are used in populated areas.
18 May 2021A Day in the Life of Prisoner ‘Socrates’, Cell Number 607
Iain Overton recounts the story of Oleh Galzyuk, who was imprisoned in the Donbas region of Ukraine for more than two years for writing about the conflict raging in the region
13 May 2021Hundreds killed and injured in an eruption of violence between Israel and Gaza
This week, Israelis and Palestinians have experienced the most harmful use of explosive weapons in the past seven years.