Archive for February 8th, 2016

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08/02/2016

Appeal for Children

Human Wrongs Watch

UNICEF is launching a US$2.8 billion appeal to reach 43 million children in humanitarian emergencies, of which the largest portion, 25 per cent, targets educating children in emergencies.* 

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Photo: UNICEF

Every year, the lives of millions of children and their families are disrupted, upended or nearly destroyed by emergencies.

Conflict, human-made disasters and wide-ranging, climate-change events challenge the lives of many who are already vulnerable. In all of these situations, UNICEF is there.

This overview offers a clear picture of the many aspects of UNICEF’s global work in humanitarian situations.

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08/02/2016

Help Is a Phone Call Away for Displaced Yemenis

Human Wrongs Watch

By Teddy Leposky*

SANA’A, Yemen, 5 February 2016 (UNHCR) – Fleeing airstrikes near his home in Haradh, near the border with Saudi Arabia, Yemeni father of 10 Ahmed* sought shelter in the capital Sana’a – where he found help was only a phone call away.

© UNHCR/A.Alsayaghi | A new call centre in Sana’a provides an essential bridge between Yemenis and the humanitarian community.

“We lost everything and wherever I go I am humiliated,” he told an operator he called at Tawasul, an innovative new call centre set up to link Yemenis in need with those in those in the humanitarian community who are there to assist.

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08/02/2016

Somalia Offers Yemenis a Safer Home

Human Wrongs Watch

By Mohamed Omar Mulla*

GARDO, 5 February 2016 (IRIN) – Somalia is the new home for 30,560 people who have fled the fighting in Yemen and are trying to adjust to life in a country that – while no longer written off as a “failed state” – certainly has its challenges.
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Photo: Mohamed Omar Mulla/IRIN | Abokor Abdullahi and his family in their one-room home

Many who once left Somalia, fleeing war, are now returning, fleeing a different war.

The majority of those who have landed by boat in the autonomous regions of Puntland and Somaliland since March last year are Somalis, embarking from Yemen’s southern ports.

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08/02/2016

Thirty States Ratify Establishment of African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Human Wrongs Watch

Chad becomes 30th AU Member State to ratify the Protocol on the establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

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 Source: The African Union

 

Arusha, 5 February, 2016 (African Union)* – The Republic of Chad has deposited its instrument of ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Right, bringing the number of African Union (AU) Member States to have ratified it to 30.

The instrument was signed on 27 January, 2016 by Chad’s President Idriss Deby Itno and immediately deposited at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The President of Chad assumed the AU annual rotating Chairmanship last week in Addis Ababa from President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

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08/02/2016

“A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work?”

Human Wrongs Watch

By Francesco Farnè*
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Rome, 6 February 2016 (IPS) – “During the first months in Italy, I always prayed for rain. I spent hours checking the weather forecast” said Roni, a 26 year old graduate from a middle-income family in Bangladesh. 

According to the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy estimates, three out of four Bangladeshi workers in Italy work in the tertiary sector. 23,3% of them are employed in the hotel, restaurant and catering sector. Credit: Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau/IPS

According to the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy estimates, three out of four Bangladeshi workers in Italy work in the tertiary sector. 23,3% of them are employed in the hotel, restaurant and catering sector. Credit: Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau/IPS

His father, a public servant and his mother a home maker, Roni had to sell umbrellas on the streets of Rome for more than a year before finding a summer job by the sea at a coffee shop, popularly known as a ‘bar’ in Italy.

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08/02/2016

Tanzania: Girls Struggle to Avoid Forced Marriage, Yearn to Learn

Human Wrongs Watch

By Kizito Makoye*
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KAHAMA, Tanzania (IPS) – Maria was barely 16 when her father removed her from school to marry her off to a man 20 years older than she was just so that the family could receive eleven cows as her dowry.

Adelescent girls in Shinyanga dancing as part of the altenative learning programme by UNESCO aimed at equiping them with life skills. Credit: Kizito Makoye/IPS

Adelescent girls in Shinyanga dancing as part of the altenative learning programme by UNESCO aimed at equiping them with life skills. Credit: Kizito Makoye/IPS

“I didn’t want to get married, I wanted to study and become a doctor, but all my dreams seem to have been crushed,” she told IPS.

Distraught, Maria who is now 18, repeatedly pleaded with her father to let her finish her education but he completely refused. “If you don’t want to get married get out of my house, my father told me angrily,” she said.

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