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A 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).
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An Anatomy of a Grad Attack
An examination of the global use and harm of the Grad MLRS, through the prism of a single attack.
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40% of all civilian casualties from airstrikes in Afghanistan – almost 1,600 – in the last five years were children
In 2018, 236 minors were killed by airstrikes in Afghanistan. Another 256 were injured, leaving a total of 492 child casualties This was an 85% increase on the year before, resulting in a rate of four child casualties every three days.
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London: murder capital. A year of violent deaths examined
In 2019, 147 people were killed in Greater London. This report examines the gender, age, race and location of both those killed and those convicted of such deaths.
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Explosive Violence Monitor: 2020
The latest data from Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) on the global impact from explosive weapons.
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Childhood Under Attack: A Timeline of Explosive Weapon Harm
Globally, between 2011 and 2020, at least 17,035 children were reported in English language media as having been killed and injured by explosive violence.
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UK approves military exports to 80% of countries on own restricted list
Of the 73 destinations that the UK’s Department for International Trade (DIT) lists as “subject to arms embargo, trade sanctions and other trade restrictions”, 58 have had approval to receive goods that fall under ‘military use exports’ between January 2015 and June 2020.
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For All Was Lost: comparing UK & US military deaths in the War on Terror
IEDs were the primary cause of death for both UK and US militaries in the ‘War on Terror’. As a proportion of total force size, a UK soldier was twenty per cent more likely to be killed by an IED than their US counterpart.
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Children and explosive violence harm
4 OctThe impact of explosive violence on children in Yemen
Between 2015 and 2020, at least 3,153 children have died in Yemen and 5,660 children have been injured. This report looks at the impact of explosive violence on children in a country beset by years of war.
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The reverberating effects of explosive weapons
1 JunSix 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.
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Mapping violence in Britain
30 AprEngland and Wales data on Homicide, Domestic Violence, Sexual Offences, and Child Abuse examined
A decade of homicide, domestic violence, sexual offences and child abuse in England and Wales with an eye towards tracking harm and highlighting perhaps under-reported instances of harm.
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Afghanistan - a country at war
5 MarUNAMA’s Civilians in Armed Conflict in Afghanistan 2020 – report
Over the course of 2020, a total of 8,820 civilians became casualties of the conflict in Afghanistan. 3,035 people were killed and 5,785 were injured.
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Lawfare examined
5 AprThe Rise of ‘Lawfare’ in the UK examined: how Parliament turned the law into a battleground
The Conservative Party’s 2015 Manifesto stated “we will ensure our Armed Forces overseas are not subject to persistent human rights claims". This article explores this claim and its impact.
Militarism examined
This category looks into militaries and militarism, with a focus on Great Britain. From how the UK became one of the world’s leading arms exporters, to why we continue to export to nations with serious human rights concerns, to investigations into the UK’s armed forces, it seeks to challenge the contradictions and failures of British militarism, and the failure of other nations militaries, today.
Weapons explained
A brief summary of some of the major weapons types and their impact
Children and explosive violence
The impact of explosive violence on children is devastating and commonplace. This section examines the short- and long-term effects of explosive weapon use on children around the world.
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Gender and explosive violence
We know that when explosive weapons are used in populated areas over 90% of those killed or injured will be civilians. What is less known is the impact on men and women from such violence. AOAV here examines explosive violence in its different forms, looking especially at its gendered impact on communities
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Environment and explosive violence
AOAV examines the reverberating environmental impacts from the use of explosive weapons.
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Health and explosive violence
AOAV examines the reverberating impacts from the use of explosive weapons.
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Explosive Violence Monthly Reports
Since 2011, AOAV has been recording the global harm wrought by explosive weapons on civilians. Through monitoring English language media reports, we demonstrate consistent patterns of harm arising from the use of explosive violence, in particular their effects on civilian populations. These reports are issued annually with monthly updates.
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AOAV: all our reports
This is a list of all reports published by Action on Armed Violence
