Archive for May 19th, 2023

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19/05/2023

Europe Sells to Africa and Asia 90% of Its Used Clothes, Textiles Waste

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal

ROME, May 18 2023 (IPS)* – Once the money-making businesses have turned Asia and Africa into their low-cost factories, to produce and market at higher prices their clothes and footwear, they further obtain more profits by selling to these two continents around 90% of all their used clothes and textiles waste.
 
“As reuse and recycling capacities in Europe are limited, a large share of used textiles collected in the EU is traded and exported to Africa and Asia, and their fate is highly uncertain,” says the European Environmental Agency. Credit: Shutterstock.

“As reuse and recycling capacities in Europe are limited, a large share of used textiles collected in the EU is traded and exported to Africa and Asia, and their fate is highly uncertain,” says the European Environmental Agency. Credit: Shutterstock.

Not only: such a business alleviates the harsh environmental impacts of the lucrative clothing and fashion industry, and the cost of recycling and eliminating the leftovers of these products.

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19/05/2023

Sudan Crisis: UN Launches Record Country Appeal for 18 Million in Need

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN NEWS)* — Amid a massive increase in the number of people in Sudan impacted by more than a month of heavy fighting, the UN on Wednesday [] said that it needed a record near $3 billion to deliver life-saving aid to them.

A family arrive at the UNHCR transit centre, near the Joda border point in Renk, South Sudan.
© UNHCR/Charlotte Hallqvist | A family arrive at the UNHCR transit centre, near the Joda border point in Renk, South Sudan.

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In addition to a revised request from the UN aid coordination office OCHA for $2.56 billion to fund its Humanitarian Response Plan – targeting some 18 million people in Sudan – the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said that it required $472 million to assist those forced to flee across the country’s borders.
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The revised joint humanitarian response plan updates the response strategy launched for Sudan in December 2022 and reflects the “fundamental and widespread needs” within the country, according to OCHA.
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“Today 25 million people, more than half the population of Sudan, need humanitarian aid and protection,” said Ramesh Rajasingham, Head and Representative of OCHA in Geneva.

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