Patterns of civilian and child deaths due to war-related violence in Syria: a comparative analysis from the Violation Documentation Center dataset, 2011–16

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Armed Conflicts and National Trends in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Can National Health Surveys Tell Us?

“…4 Evidence of the impact of conflicts on RMNCH is often biased as much of the data come from more stable, protected settings such as long-term refugee camps. [5][6][7][8] Local survey and surveillance data have shown the negative impact of conflicts on child health as measured by mortality, [9][10][11][12] morbidity [13][14][15] and malnutrition [16][17][18] in multiple settings. The measurement of indirect and longer term effects on RMNCH has received limited attention but is considered to be much larger than the direct effects.…”

Surgical Needs at the End of the Battle of Mosul: Results from Mosul General Hospital

“…Reports from Syria suggest that civilian deaths constitute over 70% of the total deaths. Civilians are often injured by explosive weapons such as mortars, grenades, missiles, bombs, and mines which have been widely used in Syria since 2011 [1][2][3]. These types of weapons are hard to direct at specific military objectives and the effects are difficult to limit.…”

Documenting deaths in the Syrian war

“…In The Lancet Global Health, Debarati Guha-Sapir and colleagues provide one of the most comprehensive analyses of this conflict to date. 5 They rely on data collected in real time from the Violations Documentation Center (VDC) to analyse the demographics, cause of death, and temporospatial patterns of 143 630 direct deaths occurring from 2011 to 2016 in the Syrian war. Although the VDC is only one of several human rights groups documenting deaths in the Syrian conflict, it is the only one that explicitly attempts to categorise conflictrelated deaths by civilian or combatant status, that takes high risks in doing so within hours of attacks, and has managed to maintain this documentation system over the duration of the conflict.…”

“…6 On the basis of data from the VDC, Guha-Sapir and colleagues present a novel analysis that offers a contemporaneous depiction of conflictrelated mortality in Syria over space and time. 5 The VDCthrough its careful methods, adherence to international norms of human rights documentation, recording of combatant status and rank, documentation of cause of death and particular weapons involved, geographical scope, and explicit attention to the limitations of the data-permits this study to present the clearest picture to date of conflict related deaths in the Syrian war.…”