Archive for October 19th, 2023

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19/10/2023

Sudan Faces World’s Largest Internal Displacement Crisis

Human Wrongs Watch

Geneva/Cairo/Port Sudan, 16 October 2023 (IOM)* – Six months into the conflict, Sudan has become the largest internal displacement crisis in the world with over 7.1 million people displaced within the country, 4.5 million of whom have been displaced since violence erupted in mid-April, according to the latest figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).    

Ali, originally from Khartoum, is now forced to sleep in the open air in Northern Sudan. Shelter is among the most pressing needs for millions displaced by the violence. Photo: IOM Sudan/Noory Taha

Ali, originally from Khartoum, is now forced to sleep in the open air in Northern Sudan. Shelter is among the most pressing needs for millions displaced by the violence. Photo: IOM Sudan/Noory Taha

Approximately three million are originally from Khartoum, the capital and the epicenter of the conflict.   

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19/10/2023

World News in Brief: 500 Million Heading into Extreme Poverty, Afghanistan Quake Latest, Darfur Deaths Mount

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has appealed to the world to renew its commitment to a poverty-free world.

Rescuers in Afghanistan look over a destroyed village following the earthquake.
© WFP | Rescuers in Afghanistan look over a destroyed village following the earthquake.

Distress is being deepened by conflicts, the climate crisis, discrimination and exclusion – particularly against women and girls, the UN chief said. 

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19/10/2023

Israel: Unlawful Gaza Blockade Deadly for Children

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By Human Rights Watch*

Denial of Water, Fuel, Electricity Endangers Lives

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Palestinians drive amid the rubble of buildings destroyed in an airstrike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 12, 2023. © 2023 SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images
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(Jerusalem) 18 October 2023 – The Israeli government should immediately end its total blockade of the Gaza Strip that is putting Palestinian children and other civilians at grave risk, Human Rights Watch said today.
The collective punishment of the population is a war crime.

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19/10/2023

Explainer: What’s Inside Aid Convoy at Gaza Crossing

Human Wrongs Watch

Less than a kilometre from Gaza, pallets of food, fuel, water, and medicine are among the hundreds of tonnes of lifesaving aid packed into a long convoy of trucks idling on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, as drivers await Israel’s green light so they can reach 2.3 million besieged Palestinians caught in the crossfire of the ongoing war.

As humanitarians continued to echo the UN Secretary-General’s urgent calls on Israel to open a safe aid delivery corridor, Gaza will soon run out of basic supplies, according to UN agencies on the ground, who raised alarms about a looming unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.

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