Casualty recording news & views
The items posted here illustrate why transparent, humanising casualty recording is crucial. Although news reports of casualties are a staple of journalism, less frequently explored are the complexities of the recording process, the immediate and long-term benefits of doing it properly and the many harms involved in failing to do so. This collection examines those issues.
Three Casualty Recording Organisations Work with UN in Gaza to Provide Detailed Casualty Data
First published 6th Aug 2014
Three casualty-recording organisations are providing preliminary figures and identifying information to the news media, the United Nations, and the humanitarian community at large on the current on-going conflict in Gaza. more...
Commemorating International Day for the Right to Truth and the Dignity of Victims
First published 24th Mar 2014
Every Casualty commemorates the International Day for the Right to Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and the Dignity of Victims, March 24 more...
Accepting truth, acknowledging loss: casualty records from Katyn to Afghanistan
First published 28th Oct 2013
A lack of transparency surrounding records of casualties in armed conflict continues to hamper reconciliation efforts everywhere from Poland to Afghanistan - even decades after the end of a conflict. The United States refusal to identify or publicly acknowledge drone strike casualties is a worrying continuation of this trend. more...
Social media likely to provide key evidence for war crimes in Syria
First published 7th Oct 2013
Evidence gathered from social media will likely play a key role in the prosecution of war crimes in Syria, explained Every Casualty Co-Director Hamit Dardagan in an article recently published in German daily, Deutsche Welle. more...
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