Action on Armed Violence (AOAV)

Ukraine’s invasion grows deadlier for civilians: harm per strike up 33% despite global decline in explosive violence - AOAV Civilian harm from explosive weapons rose sharply in Ukraine last year, even as global casualty figures from such weapons fell, according to new data from Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), revealing ho...

Civilian harm from explosive weapons rose sharply in Ukraine last year, even as global casualty figures from such weapons fell...revealing how the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has become far more harmful for civilians with each individual strike aoav.org.uk/2026/ukraine... @aoav.bsky.social

Has the British media become obsessed with ‘World War Three? It seems the Tabloids have.

Great piece by Eban Raymond for @aoav.bsky.social

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A briefing note for journalists on the F-35i’s role in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza - AOAV Since 7 October, Israel’s deployment of the F-35i Adir in Gaza has combined high-volume precision strike capability with real-time intelligence integration, enabling sustained urban bombardment with h...

A briefing note for journalists on the F-35i’s role in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza

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Why the High Court is right to be suspicious of terror proscription powers being used to manage political protest

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Thousands of foreign passport holders serve in Israeli forces, newly released data shows - AOAV Newly released Israeli military data reveals that tens of thousands of soldiers hold foreign citizenship, including more than 2,000 Britons, highlighting the deeply international composition of the ID...

Thousands of foreign passport holders serve in Israeli forces, newly released data shows

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Students and staff hit out at uni arms trade partnerships

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The commercial determinants of gun violence: case studies of Taurus and Glock - AOAV A comparative analysis of Taurus and Glock argues that firearm manufacturers’ global expansion, marketing and regulatory environments shape access to small arms and contribute to long-term public heal...

Here @aoav.bsky.social's analysis of Taurus and Glock argues that firearm manufacturers’ global expansion, marketing and regulatory environments shape access to small arms and contribute to long-term public health risks.

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The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline

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The commercial determinants of gun violence: case studies of Taurus and Glock - AOAV A comparative analysis of Taurus and Glock argues that firearm manufacturers’ global expansion, marketing and regulatory environments shape access to small arms and contribute to long-term public heal...

Here @aoav.bsky.social's analysis of Taurus and Glock argues that firearm manufacturers’ global expansion, marketing and regulatory environments shape access to small arms and contribute to long-term public health risks.

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The political economy of the gun: militarised masculinity, commerce, and the global health burden of firearms examined - AOAV This report argues that global firearm violence should be understood as a gendered public-health crisis driven by the military-industrial complex, militarised masculinity, cultural normalisation of gu...

Gun violence is not just a security issue. It is a public health crisis shaped by inequality, gender norms, and the global gun market. Our new report argues prevention must move beyond policing towards health, equity and evidence.

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Denial as strategy: pro-Israel casualty denialism and the Gaza death toll - AOAV An examination of how pro-Israel denialism systematically sought to discredit Palestinian casualty figures in Gaza, and how the reported acceptance by the Israeli military of the death toll exposes th...

Denial as strategy: pro-Israel casualty denialism and the Gaza death toll

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The media's assault on Keir Starmer over British soldier prosecutions in the Iraq war shows how the rule of law is being recast as betrayal - AOAV Claims that Sir Keir Starmer led a “witch-hunt” against Iraq veterans distort both fact and law, recasting a narrow, procedural legal intervention on human-rights obligations as a political vendetta i...

The media's assault on Keir Starmer over British soldier prosecutions in the Iraq war shows how the rule of law is being recast as betrayal

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Why Parliament must debate Palantir’s expanding role in Britain’s security state - AOAV Britain’s accelerating dependence on Palantir Technologies Inc has prompted a call for a parliamentary debate, amid concerns that a foreign defence-tech firm with opaque contracts and contested ethics...

Why Parliament must debate Palantir’s expanding role in Britain’s security state

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The IDF Admits It Killed 70,000 Palestinians in Gaza. What Other Accusations Could Turn Out to Be True?

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Challenging the War Machine I'm attending the first ever Declassified UK summit - you should too!

.@declassifieduk.org will host its first ever summit, Challenging the War Machine, on Saturday 31 January 2026 at EartH in Dalston, London. Come along and meet the @aoav.bsky.social team - we will have a stand. secure.declassifieduk.org/page/180663/...

Why did the Ajax Programme result in so little corporate consequence, and what does this reveal about systemic weaknesses in UK defence procurement and oversight? - AOAV The Ajax programme shows how a mix of weak governance, politicking, industrial dependency and institutional optimism allowed a deeply flawed defence project to limp on with minimal corporate consequen...

Fascinating piece by Bea Everist here for @aoav.bsky.social

Why did the Ajax Programme result in so little corporate consequence, and what does this reveal about systemic weaknesses in UK defence procurement and oversight?

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UK police to use AI facial recognition tech linked to Israel’s war on Gaza www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

The missing weapons: the weapons behind most explosive violence in the hottest conflicts around the world go unreported - AOAV An AOAV analysis of 10,779 English-language reports finds that, despite more than 114,000 civilian casualties across Ukraine, Palestine, Sudan and Myanmar since 2022, just 11 per cent of coverage name...

The missing weapons: the weapons behind most explosive violence in the hottest conflicts around the world go unreported

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When war becomes a wager: how Polymarket turns human suffering into a speculative wager - AOAV By inviting traders to profit from the likelihood of invasions, air strikes and political collapse, Polymarket turns war from a human catastrophe into a speculative financial win.

When war becomes a wager: how Polymarket turns human suffering into a speculative wager

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Why did Britain’s arms licensing regime to Israel ignore the genocidal language by Israel’s leadership? - AOAV This document charts how Britain continued to license and facilitate arms exports to Israel, including through the F-35 supply chain, even as courts, UN bodies and major human-rights groups warned of ...

Why did Britain’s arms licensing regime to Israel ignore the genocidal language by Israel’s leadership?

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MoD secrecy on civilian harm assessments risks undermining public trust, tribunal warns - AOAV A tribunal has found that the Ministry of Defence’s refusal to publish how it assesses civilian deaths from British airstrikes risks undermining public confidence, even as it declined to force disclos...

MoD secrecy on civilian harm assessments risks undermining public trust, tribunal warns

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Why did Britain’s arms licensing regime to Israel ignore the genocidal language by Israel’s leadership? - AOAV This document charts how Britain continued to license and facilitate arms exports to Israel, including through the F-35 supply chain, even as courts, UN bodies and major human-rights groups warned of ...

Why did Britain’s arms licensing regime to Israel ignore the genocidal language by Israel’s leadership?

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When war becomes a wager: how Polymarket turns human suffering into a speculative wager - AOAV By inviting traders to profit from the likelihood of invasions, air strikes and political collapse, Polymarket turns war from a human catastrophe into a speculative financial win.

When war becomes a wager: how Polymarket turns human suffering into a speculative wager

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Bonuses in a time of austerity: Andy Start, the Ajax scandal and the nature of Britain’s military-industrial profiteering - AOAV The Ajax armoured vehicle scandal exposes how Britain’s military-industrial complex continues to reward senior officials and contractors with bonuses and impunity, even as a £6.3bn programme fails sol...

Bonuses in a time of austerity: Andy Start, the Ajax scandal and the nature of Britain’s military-industrial profiteering

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America’s deepening firearm crisis - why the South is leading a deadly uptick in gun deaths and why Alabama tops the list with 28 mass shootings recorded in one year alone - AOAV Tracking changes in gun deaths, mass shootings and the strength of state gun laws, a study concludes that Alabama now ranks as the most dangerous state in America when it comes to firearms. More troub...

America’s deepening firearm crisis – why the South is leading a deadly uptick in gun deaths and why Alabama tops the list with 28 mass shootings recorded in one year alone

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Britain’s quiet role in Venezuela’s violent unravelling - AOAV Britain’s defence industry and long-standing political alignment with Washington have left the UK quietly entangled in an illegal US assault on Venezuela, exposing the hollowness of its claims to upho...

Britain’s quiet role in Venezuela’s violent unravelling

Thoughts from AOAV on the international order, the arms trade and Britain's quiet hand in the US's military assault on Venezuela.

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Ghosts of war - Iraq: the cases that never counted - AOAV Did Britain's focus on discrediting lawyers and fixers accused of pursuing false claims in Iraq ultimately obscure credible evidence of civilian harm, leaving many Iraqi victims of British military ac...

Did Britain's focus on discrediting lawyers and fixers accused of pursuing false claims in Iraq ultimately obscure credible evidence of civilian harm, leaving many Iraqi victims of British military action without investigation, recognition or justice?

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In relation to cases in the Military Justice System, the information you are seeking is not held centrally. While Service Law cases are recorded on the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) System, the details of each case are not inputted in such a way to easily determine which are relevant to your request. The recording of Service Law cases includes a specific drop-down list of values to select the location from, however it is not mandatory to complete this field as there will be incidents that occur in locations that are not listed within JPA. Therefore, in order to identify the specific facts of each case, this would require each of the cases to be manually reviewed to ascertain whether the case was relevant to your request. Across the three single Services for the specified time period, it is not possible to accurately estimate how long it would take to provide this data due to the size of the task however that the time and resource required to locate, retrieve, and extract the information you are seeking, would undoubtedly exceed the appropriate limit.

MoD blocks data on arrests for British troops paying for sex overseas, citing cost limits aoav.org.uk/2025/mod-blo... from @aoav.bsky.social

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Might over law: how the US strike on Venezuela erodes global norms - AOAV The US attack on Venezuela marks another decisive breach of the international rules-based order, signalling a world in which power increasingly overrides law and civilians bear the cost.

Might over law: how the US strike on Venezuela erodes global norms

@iainoverton.bsky.social's thoughts for AOAV

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Why has Sir Gwyn Jenkins appointed The Sunday Times’ Harry Yorke just as scrutiny over Afghanistan killings intensifies? - AOAV The Royal Navy says its appointment of The Sunday Times journalist Harry Yorke as Naval Assistant under a new “ZigZag” entry scheme reflects a drive to import civilian expertise, but the decision has ...

Why, as legal and reputational pressure mounts, has the Royal Navy chief opted for a media hand rather than a military aide? Sir Gwyn Jenkins appoints Harry Yorke of The Sunday Times as scrutiny of Afghanistan killings intensifies.

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