{"id":29196,"date":"2021-03-03T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/03\/civilian-deaths-in-conflict-plummeted-during-pandemic-report-finds"},"modified":"2021-03-03T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T07:00:10","slug":"civilian-deaths-in-conflict-plummeted-during-pandemic-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29196","title":{"rendered":"Civilian deaths in conflict plummeted during pandemic, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of civilians reported killed in explosions nearly halved in 2020 to the lowest level in a decade<\/p>\n<p>The number of civilian casualties in conflicts around the world plummeted during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report shows.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, an average of 10 civilians a day were reported killed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/topic\/arms\">explosive weapons<\/a>, compared with 18 in 2019, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/aoav.org.uk\/\">analysis by Action on Armed Violence<\/a> (AOAV), a London-based charity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/03\/civilian-deaths-in-conflict-plummeted-during-pandemic-report-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of civilians reported killed in explosions nearly halved in 2020 to the lowest level in a decadeThe number of civilian casualties in conflicts around the world plummeted during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report shows.Last year, an average &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,87,1066,59,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-conflict-and-arms","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29200,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29196\/revisions\/29200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}