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21/08/2024

Biden’s Convention Speech Made Absurd Claims About His Gaza Policy

Human Wrongs Watch

By Norman Solomon*

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Aug 21 2024 (IPS)* – An observation from George Orwell — “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” — is acutely relevant to how President Biden talked about Gaza during his speech at the Democratic convention Monday night.
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A UN team inspects an unexploded 1,000-pound bomb lying on a main road in Khan Younis. Credit: OCHA/Themba Linden

His words fit into a messaging template now in its eleventh month, depicting the U.S. government as tirelessly seeking peace, while supplying the weapons and bombs that have enabled Israel’s continual slaughter of civilians.

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21/08/2024

Existential Struggle

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By Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service*

15 Aug 2024 – Now the numbers killed in the indiscriminate slaughter in Gaza exceeded 40,000 registered deaths (72% of them women and children). But the number of deaths could be many folds more (at least ten thousand under the rubble, many thousands died for lack of food or medical care etc).

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Gaza under intense, relentless Israeli bombardment Aug 2024. Photo: Mazin Qumsiyeh

But globally the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. How do they do it and how do we stop it.

First simple facts:

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20/08/2024

Climate Crisis Fuels Flooding and Deepens Displacement

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20/08/2024

Widespread Floods and Uptick in Fighting Deepen Humanitarian Crisis in Myanmar

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By Vibhu Mishra

(UN News)* — A surge in conflict combined with torrential rains and floods is deepening the crisis in Myanmar, leading to a surge in displacement, UN humanitarians have said.

Destroyed houses in a village in Sagaing province. (file)
© UNICEF/Myo Thame | Destroyed houses in a village in Sagaing province. (file)
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Overflowing rivers have submerged towns and villages, impacting nearly 400,000 people, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported.
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Critical infrastructure has been damaged – including roads and railways – along with wide swaths of cropland, threatening both livelihoods and food security.

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20/08/2024

Humanitarian Aid to Sudan Civilians Stalled by Floods and Violence

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(UN News)* — On , UN authorities in Sudan confirmed that truckloads of food and supplies have been approved to cross the border from Chad through the Adre crossing.

Khartoum’s war-destroyed Omdurman market, once a vital economic and social hub. Photo: WFP/Jonathan Dumont

The opening of the vital aid route on Friday was welcomed by officials, as it serves as a vital humanitarian route for delivering urgent aid to millions, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

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20/08/2024

‘The Already Catastrophic Situation in Gaza Is Worsening…’ 

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres is closely following negotiations in Doha focused on trying to end the war in Gaza, where the situation continues to remain catastrophic after more than 10 months of unrelenting war.

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A school which had sheltered displaced people in Gaza stands in ruins.
© UNRWA | A school which had sheltered displaced people in Gaza stands in ruins.
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The UN chief’s Spokesperson told journalists at the regular press briefing in New York on Monday [] that Mr. Guterres had spoken to the Prime Minister of Qatar yesterday.

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19/08/2024

2023 Deadliest Year for Aid Workers – 2024 Could be Even Worse, Predicts UN

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By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 2024 (IPS)*– Back in August 2003, the United Nations faced one of its violent tragedies when a terrorist attack on the UN headquarters in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad claimed the lives of 22 people.
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Among those killed was Sergio Vieira de Mello of Brazil, the UN envoy in Iraq and High Commissioner for Human Rights, who had a long and distinguished UN career stretching over 30 years.

As the UN commemorated World Humanitarian Day on August 19, it continues to be confronted with rising death tolls among both its humanitarian workers and peacekeepers worldwide.

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19/08/2024

Health and Humanitarian Workers Face Record Violence: Here Are 5 Reasons the World Must Take Action

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UNITED NATIONS, New York, 18 August 2024 (UNFPA)* – There were more than 1,500 attacks on health facilities last year. More than 280 humanitarians and at least 750 health workers and patients were killed.

Four people in UN vests stand amid the rubble of a destroyed building
The Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza was completely destroyed following a bombing raid by Israeli forces. © UNFPA/Dominic Allen

These numbers were racked up not on battlefields, but in hospitals, in homes, in vehicles delivering vital medical care, in spaces designed to be safe. 

More health workers and patients were killed or injured in 2023 than any previous year – a grim record the world is on track to beat in 2024.

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19/08/2024

Education on Hold: Sudan War robs Young People’s Hope for the Future

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By Moulid Hujale in Kosti, Sudan

An entire generation is facing a bleak future as continued violence in Sudan disrupts education for millions.

Ibrahim Abdulrahman inside the classroom he shares with dozens of other forcibly displaced families in Kosti in Sudan’s While Nile State. © UNHCR/Samuel Otieno

14 August 2024 (UNHCR)* — When Ibrahim Abdulrahman’s name was announced on national radio as the top performing student in the country’s high school examinations in 2020, his achievement was celebrated by everyone in his small mountainous village of Al-Dambaire in Sudan’s North Kordofan State.

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18/08/2024

The Silent Crisis of Air Pollution

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By Martin Zavan | Greenpeace International*

— Air pollution is a silent crisis, as lethal as it is pervasive. It affects millions of people around the world but does the most damage to the health and the environment of those living in the Global South.

 

 

 

 

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Heavy smog seen engulfed amid rise in pollution levels at Barakhamba on November 2, 2023 in New Delhi, India. The Air Quality Index (AQI) remained in the “very poor” category for the sixth consecutive day on November 2. © Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images.

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This year, to mark the UN Environment Program’s International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, Greenpeace East Asia’s Clean Air Unit is highlighting the severe health impacts of air pollution and the positive steps global communities are taking to quantify and combat the problem.

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