Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) carries out research, advocacy and field programmes towards a single goal – reducing the incidence and impact of armed violence
Action on Armed Violence (formerly ‘Landmine Action’) is a UK-based charitable organization working to reduce the incidence of armed violence and its impact on vulnerable populations around the world.
AOAV has a successful track record in developing international law, global civil society networks, and local programmes for weapons’ control, armed violence reduction, and civilian protection.
Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia were the worst affected countries. Casualties were caused by both conventional military explosive weapons such as mortars, rockets and artillery as well as by improvised explosive devices such as car bombs and “suicide” bombs. Nine out of ten casualties from mortars were civilians, indicating that weapons with wide area effects are especially prone to causing harm to innocent people. The report data is drawn from over 500 different English-language media sources on all continents. It presents what is almost certainly a low estimate of the real extent of the suffering caused by explosive weapons. More information on the EVMP is available here.
New data shows civilians bore brunt of bombings in 2011
(27 March 2012) Monitoring Explosive Violence is a new report by Action on Armed Violence on data collected in 2011, it shows that 84% of casualties from bombings in populated areas were civilians. The report analyses 2,522 incidents of explosive weapons use in 68 countries and territories, with 21,499 civilians reported killed and injured over the 12-month period.
