18/08/2018
© UNICEF/Kamal Ayyashi | On 9 June 2018 in Yemen, an injured girl is being treated at Althawra Hospital in Hudaydah. She was injured along with her brothers and her uncle, while the family was trying to relocate farther from the fighting that same day in Aljah area, Bait Alfaqih district, Hudaydah.
The last two weeks have seen a suicide attack on an education centre in Afghanistan which killed and injured young students in class, 21 children killed in Yemen when their school bus was hit by an airstrike, and ongoing child casualties in Syria – particularly in the conflict zones of Idlib and Western Aleppo in the North of the country.
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18/08/2018
Funding for humanitarian operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) is at an “all-time low”, threatening the delivery of life-saving aid to people in the West Bank and Gaza, the United Nations on 17 August 2018 warned.
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UNRWA/Tamer Hamam | A Palestine refugee woman receives food assistance at the UNRWA Khan Younis Distribution Centre in Gaza. (file)
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So far, only 25 per cent of the nearly $540 million needed this year has been received, the organization’s humanitarian affairs office,
OCHA, has reported.
OCHA said the decline in funding for the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees, UNRWA, “has been a key contributing factor.”
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18/08/2018
Oh, my dear USA – the country where I spent six of the best years of my life, where I have paid so many visits, where I have so many friends – are you still alive, behind the Trump Curtain, or are you hiding in despair and disbelief?
- Gunnar Westberg
Two weeks I spent there. Two weeks is an ideal time to confirm your prejudices and to reach premature conclusions. If you stay longer, you will understand that you have understood very little.
I went to places I know well: to rural Minnesota, to the civilized big city of Minneapolis and to the Capital of the World, New York.
And yes, you are still there, the real USA, the real Americans! Trump does not reign over your hearts.
Everyone talks of him, tries to understand who he is, and how he came to be elected, but he has not changed the daily lives and the minds of the people.
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17/08/2018
According to Reuters, the measure aims to curb a surge in immigration from economic crisis-hit Venezuela that has already driven hundreds of thousands of desperate migrants to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Brazil.
Shortages of food and medicine, exacerbated by hyperinflation, have reportedly forced more than a million Venezuelans to flee to neighboring nations such as Ecuador, Colombia and Peru in recent months.
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17/08/2018
UN experts cite ‘possible exploitation’ of workers hired to clean up toxic Japanese nuclear plant.
IAEA/Gill Tudor | Rubble from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
16 August 2018 – A group of United Nations rights experts are urging the Japanese government to urgently protect tens of thousands or workers hired to help decontaminate the Fukushima nuclear plant, who are reportedly being exploited and exposed to toxic nuclear radiation.
“Workers hired to decontaminate Fukushima reportedly include migrant workers, asylum seekers and people who are homeless,” said the three UN Special Rapporteurs.
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17/08/2018
16 August 2018 – A lack of funds means that the new school term for over half a million Palestinian students could be cut short after just one month, says UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
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The agency’s 711 schools, providing free basic education for Palestinian refugee children in the West Bank – including East Jerusalem – Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria – will open as planned in September.
UNRWA operations have been hit hard by the United States decision at the beginning of the year to cut back its funding of the Agency by around $300 million.
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17/08/2018
The Republika Srpska National Assembly in Bosnia and Herzegovina drew concern from the top United Nations expert on the Prevention of Genocide on Thursday 16 August 2018, over its decision this week to revoke its endorsement of the 2004 Srebrenica Commission Report acknowledging genocide during the Bosnian war of the 1990s.
UNICEF/Roger Lemoyne | A boy rests against a woman in a camp of people displaced from Srebrenica, at the Tuzla airport in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995.
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“Rejection of the Commission’s findings is a
step backwards for Bosnia and Herzegovina,” said Special Adviser Adama Dieng.
“It undermines the rule of law and national and international efforts to achieve justice for victims of crimes committed against people of all ethnicities during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war,” he continued.
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16/08/2018
UNHCR welcomes Aquarius resolution, but stresses need for more predictable approach to disembarkation.
The Aquarius ship arrives in Malta. © UNHCR/UNHCR
15 August 2018 (UNHCR)* – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency applauds 14 August 2018’s decision by the Government of Malta to permit the disembarkation of 141 asylum-seekers and migrants rescued on the Central Mediterranean by an NGO boat, the Aquarius.
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16/08/2018
13 August, 2018 (UN Women)* – Eight years. Since the start of the conflict, the Syrian crisis has displaced more than 6.6 million people internally and seen more than 5.6 million Syrians scattering across its borders.
Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. Photo: UN Women/Christopher Herwig
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The protracted humanitarian crisis in Syria has devastating consequences for women and girls. From food insecurity to loss of educational opportunities, lack of safe water or health services, and high rates of gender-based violence, women and girls are facing the brunt of the crisis. In
69 per cent of communities, early marriage is reported as a concern.
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16/08/2018
16 August 2018 (UN Environment)* – One year ago, on 16 August 2017, the Minamata Convention on Mercury – a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds – came into force.
Mercury is a natural element: it is found in the Earth’s crust and naturally released through volcanic activity and weathering of rocks.
It exists in various forms, each with a varying degree of toxicity but all equally harmful, affecting the nervous system, the brain, the heart, the kidneys, the lungs and the immune system of all living beings.
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