Archive for December 7th, 2023

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07/12/2023

“We lost everything”: In Yemen, a Mother’s Grief Lays Bare the Human Cost of the Climate Crisis

Human Wrongs Watch

Taiz, YEMEN, 6 December 2023 (UNFPA)* – “One day, when I was returning from fetching water, I collapsed on the road. I was bleeding so badly that I knew I was going to lose my baby.”

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Umm Mahra, 38, has four children and has been living in a displacement camp in Yemen’s southwestern highlands for seven years. She had a miscarriage due to malnourishment and exhaustion. © UNFPA Yemen

Umm Mahra was 31 years old and five months pregnant when she was forced to seek refuge with her family in a remote displacement camp in Taiz, in Yemen’s southwestern highlands.

Conflict had erupted across the country and a crippling drought took hold, exacerbating the situation for millions of people already fleeing for their lives.

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07/12/2023

“An unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale, where the massive impacts of human-induced droughts are only starting to unfold”

Human Wrongs Watch

(UNCCD)* — Recent drought-related data based on research in the past two years and compiled by the UN point to “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale, where the massive impacts of human-induced droughts are only starting to unfold.”

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07/12/2023

Israel: Strikes on Journalists in Lebanon Apparently Deliberate

Human Wrongs Watch

By Human Rights Watch*

Intentionally Targeting Civilians a War Crime

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Read a text description of this video: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/07/israel-strikes-journalists-lebanon-apparently-deliberate

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(Beirut) – Two Israeli strikes in Lebanon on October 13, 2023, that killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists was an apparently deliberate attack on civilians and thus a war crime, Human Rights Watch said today [7December2023].

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07/12/2023

“The Pulverising of Gaza Now Ranks amongst the Worst Assaults on Any Civilian Population in Our Time and Age…”

Human Wrongs Watch

Civilian deaths in Gaza are a stain on Israel and its allies

Statement from Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council:
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This residential building in Gaza collapsed after it was targeted in an Israeli airstrike. Photo: Yousef Hammash/NRC

5 December 2023 — “The pulverising of Gaza now ranks amongst the worst assaults on any civilian population in our time and age. Each day we see more dead children and new depths of suffering for the innocent people enduring this hell.

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