L’Osservatorio monitors the web and other information sources daily to provide in-depth news on the impact of contemporary armed conflicts on civilians.
27 April 201712 months after the country’s first democratic presidential election the Central African Republic is still torn apart by a conflict began in 2013
25 April 2017Reports from several international organisations point to an alarmingly rising number of incidents of looting, beatings, rapes and gang rapes against civilians.
26 January 2017A Nigerian fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram made a tactical error and accidentally bombed an IDP camp in Borno
23 January 2017At least 5 people died and more than 15 have been wounded during a shooting in the Blue Parrot club, in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
25 January 2017Allegations of abuses by the military are pushing the Rohingya ethnic minority away from homeland Rakhine State, Myanmar
10 January 2017A survey by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) found that over two thirds of Syrian refugee children work on the streets in Lebanon six days per week to make money for their families
15 December 2016An airstrike, launched on December 7 and allegedly attributed to the Iraqi forces, killed more than 50 civilians in the ISIS-held city of al-Qaim in Western Iraq.
20 December 2016500 refugees, including many children, arrived in Italy during 2016- via “Humanitarian Corridors” project.
14 March 2017A rare film showing life of people besieged in the Nuba mountains.
13 March 2017At the Security Council meeting on 28th February Russia and China vetoed a resolution aimed at imposing sanctions on the warrying parties in Syria over the use of chemical weapons.
7 December 2016With the battle of Mosul reaching its peak intensity, the proportion of wounded and killed civilians is ever increasing.
8 February 2017Landmines have been responsible for numerous civilian deaths in Taizz, Yemen.