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23/03/2024

Palestinian Unemployment Rate Set to Soar to 57% During First Quarter of 2024

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New estimates show a loss of 507,000 jobs to date, shedding light on how the disruptions to economic life have led to unprecedented losses in employment and livelihoods across the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

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BEIRUT (ILO)* – Some 507,000 jobs have been lost across the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) as of the end of January 2024 due to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, according to new estimates issued by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

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21/03/2024

Democracy’s Contested Territory

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By Inés M. Pousadela*

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Mar 19 2024 (IPS)* –– This year more than half the world’s population has the chance to go to the polls. That might make it look like the most democratic year ever, but the reality is more troubling.

Too many of those elections won’t give people a real say and won’t offer any opportunity for change.

Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images

2024’s bumper election year comes as a record number of countries are sliding towards authoritarianism, and global advances in democratisation achieved over more than three decades have been all but wiped out.

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21/03/2024

The International Organization for Migration Appeals for $119 Million to Support Nearly a Million Rohingya Refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

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Geneva/Cox’s Bazar, 14 March 20214 (IOM)* -– The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is appealing for USD 119 million to support nearly a million Rohingya refugees in the world’s largest refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, and the vulnerable community generously hosting them. 

Nearly a million Rohingya refugees have sought temporary refuge in Cox’s Bazar. Women and children account for over 75 per cent of the refugee population. Photo: IOM Bangladesh

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20/03/2024

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

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(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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19/03/2024

Imminent Famine in Northern Gaza Is ‘Entirely Man-Made Disaster’

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(UN News)* — Amid reports that the Israeli military stormed Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Monday [] in search of Hamas fighters, UN humanitarians warned that new food insecurity data indicates that famine could happen “anytime”.

A mother prepares a meal for her children outside their makeshift home in a refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza. (file)
© UNICEF/Abed Zagout | A mother prepares a meal for her children outside their makeshift home in a refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza. (file)

“Famine is projected to occur anytime between now and May 2024 in the northern governorates,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said, upon publication of a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report on Gaza.

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19/03/2024

Sudan Conflict: 24 Million Children Exposed to a Year of Brutality and Rights Violations, Facing ‘Generational Catastrophe’

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GENEVA (UN Human Rights)* 18 March 2024 – Twelve months into the armed conflict in Sudan, 24 million children are at risk of a generational catastrophe, and their rights to life, survival, protection, education, health, and development have all been gravely violated, a UN committee said.

Children displaced by the fighting and insecurity in Sudan, sheltering in Sennar in the Blue Nile state.
© UNICEF/Ahmed Elfatih Mohamdee | Children displaced by the fighting and insecurity in Sudan, sheltering in Sennar in the Blue Nile state.

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18/03/2024

India Activates Discriminatory Citizenship Law

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By Human Rights Watch*

Fast-Track Legislation for Refugees Violates Rights of Muslims

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Protesters demonstrate against the Citizenship Amendment Act in New Delhi, India, December 27, 2019.© 2019 AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File
15 March 2024– This week, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government began implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which parliament had enacted in 2019.

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18/03/2024

First Person: Southern Madagascar, Where Girls Are Sold into Marriage Before They Are Born

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(UN News)*, — Efforts are being made in the south of Madagascar to end a traditional but illegal practice in which girls are promised as a wife to older men, sometimes even before they are born.

 
Nodely Lehilaly regularly attends positive masculinity group sessions in his village in southern Madagascar.
UN News/Daniel Dickinson | Nodely Lehilaly regularly attends positive masculinity group sessions in his village in southern Madagascar.

The arranged marriage typically involves the exchange of a highly prized and culturally important Zebu cow for teenage girls as young as 13 years old.

Now two UN agencies UNICEF and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) are working together with the local authorities to educate women and also men, through sessions focusing on positive masculinity, about the dangers of the practice and how to treat women as equals.

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