Realizing the right to protection from war

Strategy 2025 – 2028

Strategy 2025 – 2028

Realizing the right to protection from war

Civilians are under attack. The laws of war that protect them are being undermined.

Driven by conflicts in Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East, the rate of civilian deaths has risen sharply in recent years. Whole populations have been besieged, bombed, starved.

Instead of insisting on the standards in the Geneva Conventions, powerful governments are seeking to gut them of their force.

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But in conflict zones across the world, civilians are holding their communities together under extreme pressure.

Ceasefire works to:

Ceasefire works to:

Enable
Enable civilians to document violations committed against them
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Empower
Empower civilians to claim their rights under the Geneva Conventions and human rights law
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Protect
Protect civilians by holding militaries accountable in law courts, in parliament and at the UN
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Prevent
Prevent violence by strengthening safeguards in the use of military force.
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Ceasefire Strategy 2025 – 2028

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Photo credits:

Protestor against airstrikes, Hasaka, Syria ©Sally Hayden/SOPA/Shutterstock |
Borodyanka, Ukraine. ©Алесь Усцінаў | Gaza/Facebook |
©Vladimir Razgulyaev/Shutterstock | Nineveh, Iraq ©Lattimer/Ceasefire | ©Brian Jackson/Shutterstock | ©Andrey Popov/Shutterstock | Kerbala, Iraq ©Lattimer/Ceasefire

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