Archive for July 31st, 2024

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31/07/2024

Adolescent Girls Face Alarming Rates of Intimate Partner Violence : World Health Organization

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Nearly a quarter of all adolescent girls who have been in a relationship – close to 19 million – will have experienced intimate partner violence by the time they turn 20, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new analysis on Monday []. 

WHO says that adolescent girls are the victims of intimate partner violence.
© UNICEF/Olivier Asselin | WHO says that adolescent girls are the victims of intimate partner violence.

Almost 16 per cent, or one in six, were affected in the past year. 

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31/07/2024

Gazans Need Polio Vaccines amid ‘Deathly Cycle’ of Hunger, Heat and Disease: United Nations

Human Wrongs Watch

By Daniel Johnson

(UN News)* — In a bid to prevent a polio epidemic in Gaza, UN humanitarians on Tuesday [] repeated continuing international calls for a ceasefire to allow a mass vaccination campaign to get underway.

© UNRWA | Water remains in short supply in the Gaza Strip.

Almost 10 months of war and intense Israeli bombardment have shattered healthcare in Gaza and disrupted routine inoculation rounds for youngsters, leaving them exposed to a range of preventable diseases including polio, which the UN World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed had been identified last month in several sewage samples taken from Gaza.

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