Check out our new publication unpacking how we can use data on weapons flows for early warning.

At the 2nd international conference on the Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Declaration in 🇨🇷, UNIDIR joined @UNICEF, @airwars, @Defensie and @WeaponsMonitor to discuss how data can enhance civilian protection and reduce harm from EWIPA use. 📖 https://t.co/T9vXCVAPzO

States and organizations meet in 🇨🇷 for the 2nd International Conference of the EWIPA Declaration this week. 🔗 Explore UNIDIR’s new report on how data can be leveraged to strengthen protection of civilians and advance the Declaration’s goals: https://t.co/T9vXCVAhKg

By mid-2025, over 18 States had used our Weapons and Ammunition Management Baseline Assessment to strengthen their national frameworks. UNIDIR now launches its annual WAM in Africa Insight highlighting progress, good practises and challenges. 🔗 https://t.co/JzoPTqDmDV

Me and @LindsAKennedy latest in @ForeignPolicy looking at the role of scams in the recent fighting between Cambodia and Thailand.

#Indonesia 🇮🇩: "West Papua National Liberation Army" (#TPNPB) released a new video to call for burning of Indonesian flags in #WestPapua. A fighter is carrying what seems to be a rare #Austria-made 🇦🇹 Steyr AUG A3 SF bullpup assault rifle (captured from Indonesian Forces).

Statement by the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on the Implementation of the Cambodia–Thailand Ceasefire (Morning of 31th July 2025) Join Our Telegram Channel: https://t.co/q1oILEvJQq

Thai forces have targeted numerous areas inside Cambodia using heavy shelling, F-16 airstrikes, and drones. The EyeWitness Project is focused on gathering evidence of potential cluster munition use and violations of international law.

Israel’s genocide is visible from space. The Holocaust was not just a Jewish affair. And not just bc it extended well beyond the attempted extermination of European Jewry. The Holocaust was the great caesura of modern history. To paraphrase Bauman, ‘the light shed by the

UNIDIR has developed a handbook that offers a step-by-step how-to guide for ammunition profiling by generating an overview of the small arms and ammunition that have been diverted, trafficked and/or misused in particular urban environments 📕🛠️👇 https://t.co/kSraLBByUA

How can States make national reporting useful rather than a burden under the Global Framework? Our new report offers concrete ideas to make reporting more strategic, streamlined and impactful 📝 🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/q5zktiO6C1

#BREAKING UN Security Council FAILS TO ADOPT draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and the release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups Voting results In favor: 14 Against: 1 (US)

War is never inevitable. Weapons can and must fall silent, for they never solve problems but only intensify them. Those who sow peace will endure throughout history, not those who reap victims. Others are not enemies to hate but human beings with whom to speak.

“When women see other women doing peacebuilding, it becomes real for them.” 🗨️ Professor Miriam Coronel Ferrer Read our interview with ‌@mcoronelferrer, the first woman chief negotiator to sign a peace accord with a non-state armed group 🕊️ 👉 https://t.co/Z9pwB6nSQK

'We have warned before and keep warning: the risk of genocide & other atrocity crimes remains a stark reality in #Sudan, esp in Darfur region. Further violence can and must be prevented', the Acting Special Adviser Virginia Gamba urged on second anniversary of Sudan conflict ⤵️

UNIDIR, ‌@conflictarm, @prioresearch and VIEWS brought together arms flows and conflict early warning experts to explore how arms flow data can strengthen early warning systems 🛑 Our new insight highlights key takeaways and practical pathways forward 💡 https://t.co/attQi8X63D

As former President Duterte faces an ICC arrest warrant over the #Philippines’ deadly drug war, protests erupted nationwide. ACLED records nearly 60 pro-Duterte & 8 anti-Duterte rallies in March. Will the drug war define the 2025 midterm elections? Read: https://t.co/9FdzFRSGHk

Incredible turn of events.

We bring global discussions on cluster munitions ban to Asia-Pacific this week. Ongoing workshop of over 50 delegates in Manila is talking abt how #CCM is abt people & how it intimately weaves the promotion of human dignity and #IHL to peace & development.

Amid Myanmar's ongoing civil war, two women fighters from anti-junta armed group the Urban Revolutionary Front (URF), based in Kayah state, share their personal journeys of resistance since the 2021 coup. #Myanmar #war