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International crimes were committed against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and those who fled the country could face further persecution if they return now, a senior United Nations official on 13 March 2018 said.
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14/03/2018
Syria Conflict: 2017 Deadliest Year for Children with More Than 900 Killed
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More than 900 children in Syria were killed last year, making 2017 the deadliest year for children in the country’s ongoing conflict, a senior United Nations official on 13 March 2018 told the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, warning that the grim statistics may only be the tip of the iceberg.
UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis Panos Moumtzis alongside UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore addressed a high-level panel discussion looking at rights violations against children caught in the fighting, which is entering its eighth year.
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13/03/2018
UN Rushes to Improve Nutrition, Support Agricultural Livelihoods and Forestry on Bangladesh-Myanmar Border
Cox’s Bazar, 13 March 2018 (IOM)* – When a poor, rural farming community finds itself in the middle of the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world – doubling its population in just a few months – it’s not just the new arrivals who need support as food prices soar and infrastructure is overloaded.
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Farmer Ayesha Begum tries out a mechanical power tiller near Cox’s Bazar ©IOM/Fiona MacGregor
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13/03/2018
Myanmar: Military Land Grab as Security Forces Build Bases on Torched Rohingya Villages — Amnesty International
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By Amnesty International*
Myanmar’s Rakhine State is being militarized at an alarming pace, as authorities are building security force bases and bulldozing land where Rohingya villages were burned to the ground just months ago, Amnesty International on said in a new briefing.
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Myanmar: Rohingya trapped in dehumanising apartheid regime © Amnesty International
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13/03/2018
Scandal
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By Amos Gvirtz*
12 March 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — When robbers are caught, the accepted practice is to arrest them and bring them to trial, to send them to jail in accordance with the severity of their crime, and to require them to pay compensation to their victims. But this is not the case in Israel when the robbers are the settlers who steal Palestinian land and build their homes or grow their crops on it.
Amos Gvirtz
They receive special treatment, and if the state is forced to act according to the law, then it is the settlers who receive compensation!
Unfortunately, this scandalous situation is a substantial element in the corruption of Israeli society caused by the occupation.
The land grabbing started when the State of Israel chose to begin its process of territorial expansion after the Six Day War in 1967.
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13/03/2018
Syria ‘Bleeding Inside and Out’ as Conflict Enters Eighth Year — UN chief
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Despite a United Nations Security Council demand to institute a 30-day ceasefire across Syria, airstrikes, shelling and ground offensives have intensified in Eastern Ghouta, Secretary-General António Guterres on 12 March 2018 reported, warning that the conflict is entering its eighth year with the “grimmest” reality on the ground.
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12/03/2018
1 in 3 South-Sudanese Displaced by Conflict — Aid Now Urgent Ahead of Rainy Season
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12 March 2018 – With the rainy season approaching in South Sudan, where one in three people has been displaced by more than four years of conflict, a senior United Nations humanitarian official has called for urgent financial support to distribute and preposition life-saving aid supplies.
12/03/2018
In Indonesia, Family Support Groups Tackle Roots of Gender Violence
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By Matthew Taylor*
JAYAPURA, Indonesia, March 2018 (UNFPA)* – “My daughter used to hide all sorts of things from me,” said Martina, 41, at a support group session in Jayapura, in the far-eastern Indonesian province of West Papua.
Rivaldo Taime, 13, had the courage to seek help for his family. © UNFPA/Matthew Taylor
“But here, we learn to talk to each other openly, equally as friends, and she shares far more now – about problems at school, about boys and growing up.”
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12/03/2018
Drought and Survival in Ethiopia — Hany’s Story
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Rapid interventions safeguard livestock in Ethiopia – Hany’s story | FAO
8 March 2018 (FAO)* – After one failed rainy season after another in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, Hany Abdullahi Aaden was increasingly worried about the survival of her livestock.
Hany lives in Daratole District with her husband, six sons and two daughters. As rains have repeatedly failed, the soil, once brown has turned sandy and an arid red.
There’s little or no grass for Hany’s animals.
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12/03/2018
The Centrality of East Jerusalem
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By Walid Salem*
12 March 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Palestinian National Struggle 1967–1987
Dr. Walid Salem
The Israeli settler colonial project started in East Jerusalem in early 1967, directly after the beginning of occupation.
During the same period, the Palestinian resistance began as both an armed struggle – as in Gaza mainly from 1967 to 1972 – and a public movement of nonviolent resistance – as in East Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied West Bank.
In addition to settler colonialism, the Israeli project in East Jerusalem has included a combination of belligerent occupation and apartheid policies.
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