Archive for February, 2025

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25/02/2025

Breast Cancer Cases Projected to Rise by Nearly 40% by 2050: World Health Organization

Human Wrongs Watch

“Every minute, four women are diagnosed with breast cancer worldwide and one woman dies from the disease, and these statistics are worsening”

Women are raising awareness against breast cancer in Ghana.
© UNICEF Ghana | Women are raising awareness against breast cancer in Ghana.

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25/02/2025

Does the Colour of Your Skin Make You More Vulnerable to Climate Change?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Camilo Sanchez \ Greenpeace International*

— The climate crisis does not affect everyone in the same way. Historically marginalised groups face the greatest risks from climate change.
Those who have done the least to cause the climate crisis are the worst affected, while those who have done the most to provoke it are the most shielded from its impacts.
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We talk about this in the new episode of SystemShift, a Greenpeace podcast that explores how we can move from a world that serves the economy to an economy that works for people and the planet.

This time Carl and Joycelyn host two young climate leaders: Lali Riascos, from Guapi, Colombia, and Mateus Fernandes, from Sao Paulo,Brazil.

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24/02/2025

EU: No ‘Business as Usual’ at Association Council with Israel

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By Human Rights Watch*

Condemn Atrocities, Impose Consequences at Foreign Ministers Meeting

Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, December 16, 2024.
Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, December 16, 2024. © 2024 European Union

(Brussels) – European Union High Representative Kaja Kallas and EU foreign ministers should unequivocally condemn Israel’s atrocity crimes and other serious violations of international law during the EU-Israel Association Council meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on February 24, 2025, Human Rights Watch said on 24 February 2025. 

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24/02/2025

Is the UN’s Human Rights Agenda in Jeopardy?

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By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 24 2025 (IPS)* – The UN’s human rights agenda is in danger of faltering since the Geneva-based Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) is planning to “restructure” the office, under the moniker OHCHR 2.0.
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Credit: United Nations

But this proposal, if implemented, would result in the abolition of the Special Procedures Branch, established by the Human Rights Council (HRC), to report and advise on human rights from thematic and country-specific perspectives.

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24/02/2025

Explainer: 5 Common Myths about Child Marriage

Human Wrongs Watch

 (UN News)* — Every day, almost one in five young women are married off while still children, according to the UN reproductive and sexual health agency, UNFPA, which is urging countries to say “I don’t” to child marriage, an illegal practice that is almost universally condemned and yet remains widespread globally.
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An information and awareness-raising session in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

© UNFPA Bangladesh/Farjana Sultana | An information and awareness-raising session in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

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24/02/2025

$40.4 Million Urgently Needed to Address the Deepening Humanitarian Crisis in DR Congo

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Urgent appeal launched as DR Congo crisis fuels mass displacement to Burundi

More than 71,000 people who have fled conflict have been living in the Lushagala site in the eastern DR Congo.
© UNOCHA/Wassy Kambale | More than 71,000 people who have fled conflict have been living in the Lushagala site in the eastern DR Congo.

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22/02/2025

Displaced Again: People Forced to Flee Fear Hunger as Violence Grips the East of DR Congo

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World Food Programme calls for urgent diplomatic interventions as the second largest city in east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo falls to M23.

A woman with orange headgear and a pink shawl has her hand to her chin as she sits in front of a row of tarpaulin tents in a displacement camp
Timusifu, a mother of six, is among hundreds of thousands of people being forced back to the displacement camps they fled at the end of January in North Kivu. WFP/Michael Castofas

21 February 2025 (WFP)* — The crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is escalating rapidly after M23 fighters took over Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern DRC, just weeks after seizing Goma.

Looting has severely disrupted humanitarian operations, leaving over 450,000 people without shelter, food, or water.

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22/02/2025

Syria: 9 in 10 People Are Living in Poverty and 1 in 4 Jobless

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The United Nations Development Programme says that while nine out of ten people are living in poverty and one in four jobless, Syria’s economy could restore its pre-conflict level within a decade with robust growth.

Part of UNDP’s Earthquake Emergency Response in affected areas in Hama.
Photo: UNDP Syria

New York, 19 February 2025 (UNDP)* – Fourteen years of conflict in Syria have undone nearly four decades of economic, social, and human capital progress, according to a new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) preliminary socio-economic impact assessment.

The report issues a stark warning: at current growth rates, Syria’s economy will not regain its pre-conflict GDP level before 2080.

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21/02/2025

How Tanzania’s Farmers, Pastoralists Paid the Price for a World Bank Project

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By Kizito Makoye

MBARALI, Tanzania, Feb 21 2025 (IPS)* – A hush had fallen over Mbarali District, but it was not the quiet of peace—it was the silence of uncertainty.
 
The REGROW project, aimed at doubling the size of Ruaha National Park, has left many without land and prospects. Credit: Kizito Makoye/IPS

The REGROW project, aimed at doubling the size of Ruaha National Park, has left many without land and prospects. Credit: Kizito Makoye/IPS

Just months ago, the rolling plains were gripped by fear as government-backed rangers, dressed in olive green fatigues, roamed through villages, seizing cattle, torching homes, and forcing entire communities to the wobbly edge of survival.

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21/02/2025

Amid the Crackling of Bullets: Suffering in Eastern DR Congo

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By the Norwegian Refugee Council*

21 February 2025 —  In early 2024, clashes between armed forces and non-state armed groups in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo resumed after a period of inactivity. By late 2024, the city of Goma was surrounded and most access roads were blocked.

Jorime and Desanges were forced to flee their homes by brutal violence in eastern DR Congo. Photo: Desire Cimerhe/NRC
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The already isolated population was deprived of access to essential goods. They had no idea they were about to face the country’s most dramatic crisis since the conflict began nearly three decades ago.
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In the village of Kivale, daily life was relatively peaceful. Children ran freely, families cooked tasty meals under the shade of the trees, and people cultivated the land and ran their businesses as best they could.

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