The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that UK military personnel served aboard US Navy vessels in the Caribbean during the period when American forces carried out lethal strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats condemned as extrajudicial killings.

Evidence documented by Human Rights Watch that Israeli forces used airburst white phosphorus munitions over residential areas in southern Lebanon highlights once again the grave humanitarian risks posed by incendiary weapons in populated environments, a longstanding concern for Action on Armed Violence.

This document charts how Britain continued to license and facilitate arms exports to Israel, including through the F-35 supply chain, even as courts, UN bodies and major human-rights groups warned of grave breaches and pointed to senior Israeli leaders’ rhetoric as evidence of genocidal intent.

Parliament was assured this would never happen. It just did.

Human Rights Watch has documented repeated Sudanese Armed Forces airstrikes in Nyala, South Darfur, using unguided bombs in densely populated civilian areas, causing scores of deaths and injuries and constituting apparent war crimes.

On 28 April 2025, a US airstrike reportedly struck a migrant detention centre in Saada, northern Yemen, killing over 68 civilians and injuring dozens more

The targeting of dual-use electronic devices as explosive booby traps in Lebanon has caused indiscriminate civilian harm, violated International Humanitarian Law (IHL), and underscored the urgent need for accountability and stronger protections against such tactics.

Human rights groups are challenging the UK government’s continued approval of arms export licenses to Israel, submitting detailed witness accounts of alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza to support their case

Israel’s use of white phosphorus in south Lebanon poses severe risks to civilians and violating international humanitarian law.

The report “‘Our City Was Gone’: Russia’s Devastation of Mariupol, Ukraine” by Human Rights Watch, Truth Hounds, and SITU Research documents the extensive civilian and infrastructural damage caused by the Russian military assault on Mariupol in 2022, calling for accountability for apparent war crimes.

Human Rights Watch’s findings reveal repeated and potentially unlawful Israeli attacks on Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure, leading to a dire healthcare crisis, warranting immediate international attention and action.

A deadly cluster munition attack by Russia on the Ukrainian town of Lyman, which resulted in significant civilian casualties and long-term dangers from unexploded ordnances, has been condemned as a potential war crime by Human Rights Watch and raised urgent calls for a halt to the use of such indiscriminate weaponry.