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Measuring the impact of armed violence
AOAV works with partners to ensure that states commit to regularly measure and monitor armed violence at national level.
This document contains a set of principles elaborated by civil society to support efforts to effectively measure and monitor armed violence.
A state of ignorance, July 2010 (1.6MB)
'A state of ignorance' critically examines attempts by the UK to assess the number of civilian deaths resulting from the 2003 Iraq war and the violence that followed.
Rights of victims and survivors
AOAV works across different international policy platforms, and with partners in the field, to promote recognition of the rights of victims and survivors of armed violence.
The impact of explosive weapons
AOAV works for a better understanding of the pattern of harm caused by explosive violence and for improved international policy and legal analysis of the parameters of explosive weapons. More information is available here
100 Incidents of humanitarian harm: explosive weapons in populated areas, March 2011 (12.1MB)
This report presents 100 profiles of explosive weapons incidents in populated areas that occurred between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2010 and resulted in humanitarian harm.
Explosive violence: the problem of explosive weapons, August 2009 (2.4MB)
This report challenges the way in which use of explosive weapons in populated areas has become accepted and normalised as simply part of conventional conflict.
Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas 2010-11 (0.8MB)
This report looks at the harm caused by explosive weapons in populated areas between 1 October 2010 and 30 September 2011.
Explosive violence monitoring project
The Explosive Violence Monitoring Project is a global media monitoring project which records data on the impacts of explosive violence.
Explosive Violence: January 2012
The latest report from the EVMP highlights explosive violence developments in Iraq, Nigeria and Libya during January 2012.
Monitoring legal instruments
Further publications and external documents
Further publications and external documents are located here.
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