Digital investigations. Human stories.

Drawing on open-source evidence gathered since late 2024, CIR has documented Israeli forces’ actions at refugee camps in the northern West Bank, such as demolishing homes to widen roads for armoured vehicles and occupying residential buildings as fortified positions.

In February 2024, Myanmar's military authorities activated the People's Military Service Law, giving them a legal basis to conscript men and women of eligible age into a conflict the military has struggled to sustain. In practice, much of this recruitment appears to be carried out through detention, coercion and disappearance rather than formal call-up, and often without notice to families.

Afghan Witness has investigated the arrest of women in Herat by Taliban moral enforcement officials in June 2026, analysing the protests and security response that followed, shifts in Taliban messaging, and the spread of AI-generated content that distorted the information environment around the events.