Archive for January 25th, 2025

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25/01/2025

Nearly a Quarter of a Billion Children’s Schooling Disrupted by Climate Crises in 2024 – UNICEF

Human Wrongs Watch

Education in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Pakistan and the Philippines most severely affected by heatwaves, cyclones, floods and storms

 
Ten-year-old Tawhida travels to school by boat on 4 July 2024, following floods in Bangladesh.
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NEW YORK (UNICEF)* – At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, including heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods, and droughts, exacerbating an existing learning crisis, according to a new UNICEF analysis released on 24 January 2025.

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25/01/2025

‘It’s a Long Road to Food Security for Lebanon’

Human Wrongs Watch

By World Food Programme*

, WFP Staff – After conflict intensified in Lebanon last September, around 1.2 million people were uprooted. 
A colourful truck - draped with a WFP logo banner in Arabic - makes its way up a deserted road past an burnout, overturned car
A second humanitarian convoy dispatched by WFP and UNICEF reaches Rmaych, one of the hardest-hit areas near Lebanon’s southern borders, in November. WFP/Mohammed Awadh

“While many are now returning home,” said Matthew Hollingworth, Country Director for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Beirut, others “face the devastating reality of having no home to return to.”

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25/01/2025

 UN Human Rights Express “Grave Concerns over Escalating Violence in the Occupied West Bank, Condemn the Use of “Unlawful Lethal Force” by Israel

(UN News)* — The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday [] expressed grave concerns over escalating violence in the Jenin area of the occupied West Bank, condemning the use of “unlawful lethal force” by Israeli security forces.

Members of a family flee Jenin due to an escalation of violence.
© UNICEF/Alaa Badarneh | Members of a family flee Jenin due to an escalation of violence.
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OHCHR spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan added that the Israeli military operation in and around the Jenin refugee camp had involved “disproportionate” use of force, including airstrikes and shootings that reportedly targeted unarmed residents.

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