The use of explosive weapons (e.g. mortars, rockets, artillery shells, aircraft bombs, improvised explosive devices) in populated areas inevitably leads to the disproportionate death and injury of civilians and destruction to civilian infrastructure. Reaching Critical Will represents WILPF on the steering group of the International Network on Explosive Weapons (INEW). This network of non-governmental organisations calls for immediate action to prevent human suffering from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas (EWIPA), including through the development of a political declaration and other policy and operational measures. WILPF supports INEW's call for an end to the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects in populated areas and has published several studies on the gendered impacts of EWIPA, the links between the international arms trade and EWIPA, and the human rights implications of EWIPA.