Archive for March 29th, 2024

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29/03/2024

First Person: ‘We Had to Avoid Stepping on the Bodies in the Streets’ in Darfur

Human Wrongs Watch

A former UN staff member who worked for a decade in Sudan’s Darfur region for the African Union-United Nations mission, UNAMID, has told UN News how she had to “avoid stepping on the bodies in the streets” as she fled for her life to neighbouring Chad.

Food is distributed to Sudanese refugees in Koufron, Chad.
© WFP/Jacques David | Food is distributed to Sudanese refugees in Koufron, Chad.

(UN News)* — Sudan, and Darfur in particular, are facing a humanitarian and security crisis after a war broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), although ethnic conflicts in Darfur date back more than two decades.

Fatima*, a resident of the city of El Geneina in West Darfur state, where thousands of people have been reportedly killed, escaped with her family across the border as rival militias battled for control of her city.

“We were trapped inside our house for more than 57 days while militias systematically targeted and killed people based on their ethnicity. They did not spare women, children or elders.

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29/03/2024

Palestine: West Bank Movement Restrictions Make Life Harder for Residents and Aid Organisations

Human Wrongs Watch

By the Norwegian Refugee Council*

26 March 2024 — One morning, shortly after the outbreak of hostilities in the Gaza Strip on 7 October 2023, Salem Hathaleen, 70, received unsettling news from his neighbours.

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Graffiti sprayed on a roadblock near Al-Muntar and Al- Sararat reads “open the road for the Palestinians”. The closure has been imposed since the second Intifada, according to residents. Photo: Ahmad Al-Bazz/NRC
 

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29/03/2024

‘Cataclysmic’ Situation in Haiti; Immediate, Bold Action Needed

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Immediate and bold action is required to tackle the “cataclysmic” situation in Haiti, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report issued on Thursday [28 March 2024]. 

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© CAPAC/Jean Vadler Presume | Children in Haiti line up for a hot meal and water distributed by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Port-au-Prince.

Corruption, impunity and poor governance, compounded by increasing levels of gang violence, have eroded the rule of law in the Caribbean country and brought state institutions close to collapse.

The impact of generalised insecurity on the population is dire and deteriorating, severely affecting human rights.

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