Archive for November 23rd, 2024

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23/11/2024

Yet Another Underreported Crime: Femicide

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal

MADRID, 23 November 2024 – Human atrocities seem to have become so ‘normalised’ that more and more major crimes continue to be either nearly ignored, or shortly reported every now and then… or even only once a year.

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16 Days of Activism: #NoExcuse. UNiTE to End Violence against Women

Among those crimes lays the fact that a girl or a woman is killed every 10 minutes, while 70% of girls and women in conflict, war, climate catastrophes, and humanitarian crisis, experience gender-based violence, with rape being just an additional weapon. 

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23/11/2024

2024 Deadliest Year Ever for Aid Workers

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — The death toll of humanitarian workers in 2024 has become the “deadliest on record”, with 281 killed globally, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, reported on Friday []. 

The grim milestone has surpassed previous records.

A shredded UN flag flies over a destroyed school building in Khan Younis, Gaza.
© UNOCHA/Themba Linden | A shredded UN flag flies over a destroyed school building in Khan Younis, Gaza.
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“Humanitarian workers are being killed at an unprecedented rate, their courage and humanity being met with bullets and bombs,” said Tom Fletcher, the new UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
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“This violence is unconscionable and devastating to aid operations,” he added. 

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