Over the last decade, the demand for military drones in Africa has significantly been on the rise, driven by a growing number of internal conflicts and counter-terrorism operations. These new instruments of remote warfare provide States but also armed groups with more precise, cheap and effective means to carry out operations. Initially driven by the […]
Women, girls, and gender minorities are uniquely and disproportionately affected by the damaging environmental impacts of conflict, while lacking and demanding access to shape the necessary decision-making in environmental governance and peacebuilding structures. Nonetheless, women activists are fashioning innovative ways to turn around the negative impacts of conflict linked-environmental damage and climate risks impacting their […]
Day 33 of the war Vienna hosts an OSCE Human Dimension meeting, which the Russian representative refuses to attend for not having been involved in the preparations, and which covers in contrast all the spectrum from the [theoretical] way things ‘should be’ according to international humanitarian/human rights law and the [real] way things are in […]
Turkish Drones Join Ethiopia’s war, Satellite Imagery Confirms For months rumors have been circulating that Turkish Bayraktar TB-2 armed drones are being deployed by the Ethiopian government in their fight against the Tigray Defence Forces, an armed resistance group that took up weapons in 2020. In December 2021, the New York Times quoted anonymous Western […]
A humble voice of justice for victims of toxic remnants of war With great sadness we learned of the passing of Dr. Jawad Al Ali, an Iraqi oncologist who worked in the Basra Teaching Hospital and has been a leading voice in the long-standing debate over the use of depleted uranium munitions (DU) during the […]
The summer of 2021 witnessed how water security is at the core of the debate on the climate crisis in Iraq. The lack of rain left a trail of social and economic despair in the agricultural areas, as harvests failed, instilling fear and uncertainty in farming communities on what the future may hold. Iraqi citizens […]
The frequently heard feminist cry ‘the personal is political’, never rung truer than the afternoon we were all sitting together in a hotel conference room in Erbil, Iraq. The bright orange sun was setting over the desert-like colours of Ankawa. During the lunch break, music was played and the room was filled with dancing and […]
New Airbus high resolution satellite imagery from November 2021 now confirms the presence of Chinese Wing Loong drones in Ethiopia. These drones appear to have been delivered recently to the military airport of Harar Meda, south of Ethiopia’s capital of Addis Ababa. Since the outbreak of the conflict between the Tigray Defence Force, a constellation […]
The suffering of rural communities across northeast Syria controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is being amplified by Turkish-backed armed groups. Already struggling with severe climate change-linked drought, these areas have experienced even more severe water shortages since May, when the Syrian National Army (SNA) built three earth dams in areas under their […]
“Our hearts, thoughts, feminist fists and fire are with you all” On October28th, during Women, Peace and Security week at the UN Security Council, influential local women activists from Sudan, Palestine, Myanmar and Iraq discussed how international actors can provide feminist support to non-violent women activists and movements. Gender inequality and the lack of women’s […]
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