![]() ![]() Forty-five percent of the cases were children at the time they went missing. Mid this year, nearly 44,000 people across Africa were registered as missing with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). They can also be separated from their families and end up displaced or find themselves 'on the move'. This means, according to our analysis, that war crimes could already have taken place before March 2022’ explains Dr Chiara Redealli.Their access to education and healthcare often disrupted, and sometimes children can be recruited to take part in the fighting or for support roles. What has changed, since February 2022, is the intensity of the violence and its impact on the civilian population. Indeed, according to IHL criteria, there have been an IAC between Russia and Ukraine and two NIACs in Ukraine since 2014. ‘Russia’s invasion of Ukraine did not change our classification of the armed conflicts in the region. Europe is also the theatre of an international armed conflict (IAC) between Ukraine and Russia, and of two non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) in Ukraine opposing governmental forces with the self-proclaimed ‘People’s Republics’ of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. The following military occupations constitute the majority of armed conflicts that are taking place in Europe, four out of seven conflicts: Russia is currently occupying Crimea (Ukraine), Transdniestria (Moldova), as well as South Ossetia and Abkhazia (Georgia), while Armenia is occupying parts of Nagorno Karabakh (Azerbaijan).
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