Archive for March 20th, 2024

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20/03/2024

Records Smashed – New WMO Climate Report Confirms 2023 Hottest So Far

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Records were once again broken for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, ice cover and glacier retreat, a new global report issued by the UN weather agency (WMO) on Tuesday [] shows.

Rising sea levels are causing the regular flooding of homes in Bangladesh.
© WFP/Sayed Asif Mahmud | Rising sea levels are causing the regular flooding of homes in Bangladesh.

Heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires and rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones caused misery and mayhem, upending everyday life for millions and inflicting many billions of dollars in economic losses, according to the WMO State of the Global Climate 2023 report.

“Sirens are blaring across all major indicators… Some records aren’t just chart-topping, they’re chart-busting. And changes are speeding up,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a video message for the launch.

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20/03/2024

Real Estate Events to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met with Protests

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By Natalia Marques | Peoples Dispatches – TRANSCEND Media Service*

Real estate events are taking place to auction off Palestinian land to aspiring settlers. Pro-Palestine activists have called protests in response.

Zionist protesters confronting members of Neturei Karta participating in a pro-Palestine protest in Cedarhurst, Long Island.

14 Mar 2024 – “The Great Real Estate Event” has been touring the United States and Canada, exhibiting property for sale on stolen Palestinian land. Each event has been met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists, sometimes leading to clashes with Zionist attendees and protesters.

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20/03/2024

Gaza: Increasing Numbers of Newborns on Brink of Death

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(UN News)* — UN humanitarians reiterated their resolve on Tuesday [] to help the people of Gaza, where increasing numbers of children are on “the brink of death” from acute hunger, caused by five months of intense Israeli bombardment and constant aid access denials.

On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, southern Gaza.
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba | On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, southern Gaza.

“What doctors and medical staff are telling us is more and more they are seeing the effects of starvation; they’re seeing newborn babies simply dying because they (are) too low birth weight,” said Dr Margaret Harris from the UN World Health Organization (WHO).

“Increasingly, we’re seeing children that are at the point, brink of death that need refeeding,” the WHO spokesperson told journalists in Geneva, a day after global nutrition experts warned that famine could happen “anytime” in northern Gaza.

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