With human rights abuses running rampant in conflicts around the world, the UK has sought to build human rights commitments into its foreign and military aid partnerships to support improving partners' human rights records while guarding against risk. But, why do other countries agree to our human rights commitments and do they do so with the intention to meet them? Do these arrangements provide opportunities for exploitation, and in security capacity building relationships, are there risks the UK is training and supporting future war criminals based on faulty human rights commitments?

Bringing together academics, practitioners, and policymakers, this panel will consider the ways in which human rights commitments may be agreed to hypocritically or exploited in security capacity building relationships between the UK the countries and militaries it supports.

Following on a two year collaboration with the University of Essex's Human Rights Legal Clinic, we will publicly release our joint report on Special Forces Oversight. This report is a comparative study of the UK's defence oversight and transparency system and its gaps as it relates to oversight and accountability of its Special Operations and Special Forces units, in comparison to other systems employed by UK allies, including the United States and Australia. A House of Lords debate will be proposed shortly, with hope for a scheduled date in late October.

During this event with Airwars, speakers will discuss the challenges associated with documenting civilian harm incidents in Ukraine, how technology has helped and hindered these efforts, and how new methodological approaches have enabled civilian harm data that is collected to begin to contribute towards international accountability efforts, including war crimes investigations at the ICC.