EXPLOSIVE WEAPONS MONITOR 2023

CIVILIAN CASUALTIES AND IMPEDED ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION AND On 18 November 2022, 83 states endorsed the Political Declaration on Strengthening the Protection of Civilians from the Humanitarian HUMANITARIAN AID INCREASED MOST Consequences of the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas – the DRASTICALLY IN PALESTINE, BUT ALSO IN first formal international recognition that the use of expl. [...] The references to refugees, evacuees and nomads and the use of the term “inhabited” suggests that the presence of civilians and civilian objects – which need not be in great numbers – is a defining characteristic of populated areas.2 While the data presented here do not distinguish between use of explosive weapons in populated and unpopulated areas, the indicators of harm – civilian casualties and. [...] Attacks on education with explosive weapons in 2023 278 25 Incidents affecting schools Incidents affecting teachers The use of explosive weapons by Russian armed forces in Ukraine, Israeli armed forces in Palestine and Lebanon, and the Myanmar armed forces in Myanmar, all accounted for over 70 percent of incidents in which the use of explosive weapons affected education services in 2023. [...] This chapter marks the first efforts by the Explosive Weapons Monitor to combine and synthesise multiple data sources to show a more nuanced FORCES AND picture of the frequency and severity of the use of explosive weapons by state and non-state actors around the globe. [...] TION OF THE The Political Declaration on Strengthening the Protection of Civilians from the Humanitarian Consequences Arising from the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas 52 is an POLITICAL international political commitment developed to address the devastating humanitarian consequences resulting from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas and to strengthen DECLARATION the protect.