Archive for November 25th, 2024

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25/11/2024

Hunger ‘Inevitable’ for Millions Made Homeless by Conflict in Lebanon and Beyond

Human Wrongs Watch

By Paul Anthem | World Food Programme*

Man holding child in front of ruined buildings
Suliman Azab with one of his children outside their collapsed home in Khan Younis, Gaza. The family were displaced three times by the conflict. Photo: WFP/Ali Jadallah

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25/11/2024

Gaza: Fleeing Families Just Have ‘the Clothes on Their Back’

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Families fleeing from besieged areas of northern Gaza are leaving homes and shelters with just the shirts on their backs, Louise Wateridge, Senior Emergency Coordinator for UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, told UN News on Saturday [].

Beit Lahia New School, affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which has been transformed into a shelter.
© UNOCHA video | Beit Lahia New School, affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which has been transformed into a shelter.
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Speaking from an UNRWA school in Gaza City, which is in the north of the Strip, Ms. Wateridge said that, for almost 50 days, UN humanitarian missions have attempted to deliver supplies to northern Gaza, including besieged areas such as Jabalia, but access to those in desperate need has been extremely limited.

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25/11/2024

Haiti: Child Recruitment by Armed Groups Surges 70 Per Cent

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — The number of children being recruited into armed groups across Haiti has increased by 70 per cent over the past year, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)  has reported. The unprecedented spike also reveals the alarming deterioration of child protection amid escalating violence in the Caribbean nation.   

A family displaced by violence lives in a partially constructed school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
© UNOCHA/Giles Clarke | A family displaced by violence lives in a partially constructed school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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25/11/2024

COP29 Climate Talks End with $300 Billion Annual Pledge. Developing Countries Call the Deal “Insulting”

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Rich nations pledged to contribute at least $300 billion annually to the global fight against climate change as UN climate talks came to a contentious end early Sunday [24 November 2024] morning in Baku.

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Wide shot of the plenary hall at the UN climate conference, COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
UNFCCC/Kiara Worth | Wide shot of the plenary hall at the UN climate conference, COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Developing nations who had sought over $1 trillion in assistance called the agreement “insulting” and argued it did not give them the vital resources they required to truly address the complexities of the climate crisis.

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