The stories that become the heart of this site don't come from the day's news cycle. They come from a periodic review of independent, internationally recognised datasets — among others ACLED, ACAPS, OCHA, UNHCR, IRC — that measure where violence and suffering are most severe in the world, regardless of how much attention they get.

This review surfaces the cases where severity is high but international attention — and this site's own coverage — is low. That's where we concentrate the deepest verification work: dated facts with sources, the position of every party involved, the applicable international-law framing.

Alongside these, we publish stories tied to specific events as they happen — a ruling, a complaint, an escalation — when they touch a rule of international law or an explicit threat to break one. The two channels reinforce each other: the first ensures no serious crisis stays invisible just because it isn't making headlines elsewhere; the second keeps the site anchored to what's actually happening, today.

The criterion doesn't remove the writer's point of view — it makes it checkable. If a subject stays uncovered for a long time, or a choice seems inconsistent with this method, readers can ask why: the About page explains who I am and where I write from.