Overview

• The United Nations confirmed 41,370 grave violations in 2024, the highest annual total since it began monitoring and up 25% from the previous year.
• Armed groups were responsible for nearly half of all violations while government forces accounted for most child killings, maiming, school and hospital attacks and denial of humanitarian access.
• Gaza and the West Bank topped the list of worst-affected areas, with Israeli forces linked to 7,188 verified violations including the deaths of 1,259 Palestinian children.
• Violations in Haiti jumped 490%, prompting the first-time inclusion of the Viv Ansanm gang coalition on the UN’s “list of shame.”
• Sexual violence against children rose by 35%, fuelled in part by a surge in gang rapes across conflict zones such as Haiti, Congo and Somalia.