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04/01/2020
‘Nearly 300,000 Syrians Displaced from Idlib, Syria, since mid-December’
Amidst concern for the safety and protection of more than three million civilians in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave, the UN’s most senior humanitarian and political affairs officials briefed the Security Council on Syria behind closed doors on Friday [3 January 2020]. (*).
04/01/2020
Child Marriages Unlikely to End by UN’s 2030 Deadline
Human Wrongs Watch
– “Right now, I don’t want to get married. I have a long life and a dream in front of me”, a 14-year-old young girl from Bangladesh told her parents as she was just not ready to get married.
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Credit: United Nations
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 5.3) has targeted to end child marriage by 2030.
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04/01/2020
Brazil Complicit in Attacks on Venezuela Military Base: O Globo
Human Wrongs Watch
2 January 2020 (teleSUR)* — Brazil’s far-right government was well informed of the plans to attack to Venezuelan military outposts and was in direct communication with opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido prior to the incident, according to a report published Tuesday by Brazil’s right-wing media O Globo.
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has supported opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido in many attempts to destabilize Venezuela’s government. | Photo: EFE (Photo posted here from teleSUR).
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04/01/2020
Mediterranean Arrivals Reach 110,699 in 2019; Deaths Reach 1,283. World Deaths Fall
Human Wrongs Watch
Geneva, 3 December 2020 (IOM)*–The International Organization for Migration on 3 December 2020 reported 110,669 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea during the year just ended, marking the sixth straight year that at least 100,000 arrivals were recorded on three Mediterranean Sea Routes. The total is only slightly below the 116,273 men, women and children who crossed the Mediterranean in this fashion in 2018, a decline of about five per cent.
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04/01/2020
UN Chief Calls for De-Escalation across Gulf Region after Killing of Top Iranian General in US Airstrike
Human Wrongs Watch
3 January 2020 (UN News)* — The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed deep concern over the latest escalation in tension across the Gulf region, following the killing of a top Iranian General in Iraq, in an airstrike carried out by the United States.
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