Civilians around the world continued to experience severe harm from the use of explosive weapons in 2025, as widespread bombing and shelling extended a three-year pattern of elevated harm.
In many conflicts, civilian suffering from explosive weapons has become a routine feature of warfare rather than an exception, which threatens to normalise the elevated levels of civilian harm documented by the Explosive Weapons Monitor in 2023-2025. Against a backdrop of growing concerns over violations of international humanitarian law and weakening protections for civilians, the Explosive Weapons Monitor 2025 takes stock of this harm and highlights the importance of implementing and defending the norms and principles of the Political Declaration on Strengthening the Protection of Civilians from the Humanitarian Consequences of the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas.
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