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Eyes on the Ground: Realizing the potential of civilian-led monitoring in armed conflict

By: Clara Sandoval Villalba,Miriam Puttick

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Eyes on the Ground: Realizing the potential of civilian-led monitoring in armed conflict

By: Clara Sandoval Villalba,Miriam Puttick

Technological advances have meant that civilians are now enabled to play a greater role than ever before in monitoring and documenting violations during armed conflict or in other insecure environments. As UN rapporteurs and other official international monitors are effectively denied access to a wide range of insecure territories around the world, civilian monitors have become a complementary, and in some cases the principal, source of information on what is happening on the ground to civilian populations. Civilian-led monitoring has developed on the back of: • The huge expansion in popular access to mobile telephony and digital communications; • The development of crowd-sourcing, digital mapping and crowd verification techniques, including through the use of open-source programmes; • Increased public awareness of human rights standards and IHL standards; • Advances in data-mining and news curation using increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence; • New opportunities for civil society organisation and activism created through social media; • Growing receptiveness of UN, inter-governmental and governmental bodies to information produced by civil society. The increase in both the quantity and quality of data from civilian sources is also a response to the demand for real-time information and for in-situ monitoring. Traditional human rights and IHL monitoring mechanisms, including investigative rapporteurs and fact-finding missions, remain important but are subject to long time delays, frequent controversy over mandates, and concerns over selective reporting. Drawing on the experience of a major pilot of civilian-led monitoring in Iraq, this report discusses significant challenges for civilian-led monitoring, including quality control, verification, security of activists and victims, and ethical questions raised by interviewing and documentation undertaken by unqualified activists. The challenges of verifying and authenticating information posted online are exacerbated during armed conflict where the deliberate spread of misinformation has a long history. This report discusses different approaches and techniques to verifying civilian-led monitoring information, including building on the experience developed by large media organizations for assessing user-generated content. To support the effective deployment and expansion of civilian-led monitoring, this report recommends: - Appropriate training and capacity-building for civil-society organizations and activists on the ground in conflict-affected environments, including training on monitoring and documentation techniques, IHL and human rights standards, and cyber security; - Development of standardised reporting formats and related technical support in partnership with local civil society or civilian populations, to reflect the linguistic, technological and security situation on the ground; - Strengthened protection mechanisms for civilian monitors and other human rights defenders, including improved cyber security infrastructure; - Ensuring civilian rights to participate fully in civilian protection, peace-building and transitional justice processes.

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Violence Against Women in the Iraq Conflict

By: Miriam Puttick,Minority Rights Group International,Ceasefire Centre for Civil Rights

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Violence Against Women in the Iraq Conflict

By: Miriam Puttick,Minority Rights Group International,Ceasefire Centre for Civil Rights

Documents the extensive use of violence against women in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion, with a particular focus on violations perpetrated during the upsurge in violence over the past two years. Whether driven by political, 'moral' or sectarian motives, attacks on women have become a tactic of war used by parties on both sides of the conflict. The report draws on new gender-disaggregated data on civilian casualties, which indicate that the armed conflict in Iraq has led to the violent deaths of approximately 14,000 women since 2003. In addition to the women killed in bombings, shelling and air attacks on civilian areas in Iraq, women have been deliberately targeted for assassination by both pro-and anti-government militias across the country. 'Both Sunni and Shi'a militias have carried out mass extra-judicial executions of women for perceived transgression of moral codes,' says Mark Lattimer, Ceasefire's Director. 'But they are left free to kill and kill again.' 'Women have been the target of violence in Iraq for many years,' adds report author Miriam Puttick. 'Now, with the rise of ISIS, we are witnessing the renewal of a deliberate and violent campaign to erase women from the public life of the country.' The fighting in Iraq has generated mass population displacement and created tens of thousands of widows and female-headed households, escalating women's vulnerability." -- Minority Rights Group International web site.

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Eyes on the Ground: Realizing the potential of civilian-led monitoring in armed conflict

By: Clara Sandoval Villalba,Miriam Puttick

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