A dozen human rights, civil liberties, and faith groups are calling on President Barack Obama to follow through on the promise he made via executive order in July to transparently probe and address civilian deaths from drone strikes.

A letter sent Thursday from groups including Amnesty International, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Reprieve lists “10 U.S. Strikes Requiring Investigation and Acknowledgement,” asking that Obama “direct the relevant agencies, at a minimum, to:

• Publicly acknowledge U.S. government responsibility for these strikes;
• Ensure review and prompt, thorough, effective, independent, impartial, and transparent investigations into these cases and all other cases in which civilians are reported to have been killed or injured;
• Publicly disclose the methodology, scope, and findings of these investigations. With only those redactions necessary to protect information that is properly classified, acknowledge and provide explanations where there are discrepancies between findings of the U.S. government’s investigations and those of the United Nations, human rights organizations, and journalists, including how these findings were assessed in the course of U.S. investigations;
• Provide details of any lessons that can be learned from these reviews or investigations of these incidents that have led, or will lead, to measures to avoid unlawful strikes and better avoid, or at least minimize, civilian casualties;
• Offer condolence payments and other forms of compensation to civilians injured or the families of civilians killed in these strikes.”

The strikes named in the letter took place in Yemen and Pakistan from 2009 to 2014. The signatories stress that they do not consider theirs to be “an exhaustive list,” but rather “examples of strikes in which civilian harm has been credibly alleged.”

The groups note the Obama administration’s “public acknowledgment and apology for the deaths of Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto,” the American and Italian, respectively, who were killed by a CIA drone strike in Pakistan last year. They also cite recent news that the U.S. government has agreed to pay compensation to Lo Porto’s family.

“These are welcome initiatives,” the letter reads, “that should be followed in a systematic fashion, which the executive order commits to doing…Doing so would go a long way to providing dignity and a measure of justice to victims and families and set a strong precedent for future administrations to follow.”

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Obama’s executive order was issued in early July alongside a maligned report that claimed U.S. drone strikes have killed between 64 and 116 civilians in areas outside of active hostilities since 2009. That number was much lower than the estimates of independent groups.