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19/08/2024

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

Human Wrongs Watch

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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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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18/08/2024

Mercury Has Long Poisoned Gold Miners. This New Strategy Is Helping Change That

Human Wrongs Watch

15 AUG 2024 (UNEP)* — In the small coastal town of Guapi, Colombia, Mary Luz Ante Orobio is meeting with a group she calls “the unstoppable women.”  

Credit: AFP/Lius Tato

They are gathered around a wooden chest filled with loose cash, a ledger and a calculator. Orobio flips through the ledger, eyes poring over tidy notes outlining a series of financial investments.

She jots down some numbers before distributing cash among the group.

The women are members of one of 80 local savings and credit groups in Colombia formed with the help of planetGOLD, a programme led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

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17/08/2024

UN Human Rights Calls for Accountability for Latest ‘Horrific’ West Bank Killing

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By Daniel Johnson

(UN News)* — The perpetrators of a deadly rampage targeting a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank must face justice to deter future attacks, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, insisted on Friday [].

The movement of Palestinians is restricted in the West Bank including through the use of checkpoints. (file)
© UNRWA/Kazem Abu Khalaf | The movement of Palestinians is restricted in the West Bank including through the use of checkpoints. (file)
 
Echoing widespread condemnation internationally and within Israel of the attack reportedly by Israeli settlers on the village of Jit on Thursday which left a Palestinian man dead and about a dozen injured, OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani described the incident as “horrific”.
 
She noted that the killing “was not an isolated attack”, in reference to years of violence directed at Palestinian communities by Israeli settlers, maintaining that it was “the direct consequence” of Israel’s policy of occupation.

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16/08/2024

Yemen: Exceptionally Heavy Rain and Deadly Flash Flooding Have Compounded the Already Dire Situation for People

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By Daniel Johnson

(UN News)* — Exceptionally heavy rain and deadly flash flooding in Yemen have compounded the already dire situation for people across the country, UN humanitarians said on Thursday [].

Continuing heavy rains across Yemen have impacted and damaged vital public services and swept away homes.
© IOM | Continuing heavy rains across Yemen have impacted and damaged vital public services and swept away homes.

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16/08/2024

Most of Gaza’s 40,000 Dead Are Women and Children : UN Human Rights

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(UN News)* — As the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza passes the dark milestone of 40,000, UN rights chief Volker Türk called on Thursday [] for an end to the killing “once and for all” and the release of all hostages while negotiators prepared to meet in Qatar to renew efforts to halt the conflict and avert a wider war. 

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Gazans gather at a camp for displaced people which was bombed in May 2024. (file)
© UNRWA | Gazans gather at a camp for displaced people which was bombed in May 2024. (file)
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“Most of the dead are women and children. This unimaginable situation is overwhelmingly due to recurring failures by the Israeli Defense Forces to comply with the rules of war,” the High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement.

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15/08/2024

World Health Organization Announces Highest Level of Alert for Mpox

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WHO declares mpox virus a public health emergency of international concern

Mpox - formerly monkeypox - is a rare but dangerous infection similar to the now eradicated smallpox virus.
© CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regnery | Mpox – formerly monkeypox – is a rare but dangerous infection similar to the now eradicated smallpox virus.
 
(UN News)* — The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the rise in mpox cases constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), following advice from members at Wednesday’s [] International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee meeting.  
 
A PHEIC is the highest level of alarm under international health law.

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15/08/2024

Gaza at ‘High Risk’ of Polio Virus Spread: United Nations

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(UN News)* — The risk of polio spreading in Gaza remains high unless there is an urgent and comprehensive response to the serious health threat, UN humanitarians said on Wednesday [].

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A family on the move in Gaza where 10 months of war and stifling summer temperatures have increased the risk of disease spreading
© UNRWA | A family on the move in Gaza where 10 months of war and stifling summer temperatures have increased the risk of disease spreading
 
“At least two rounds of [orally delivered polio vaccine] will be necessary to shut down transmission,”the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) explained in an update.

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15/08/2024

Palestine: UN Reports Rise in Children Killed and Injured by Israel in the Occupied West Bank

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(UN News)* — The killing, injury and displacement of Palestinians continues in the West Back against the backdrop of the ongoing conflict in Gaza, now in its 10th month, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an update issued on Wednesday [14 August 2024].

A person carries water through the streets in a West Bank town. The situation there is gradually worsening.
© UNRWA | A person carries water through the streets in a West Bank town. The situation there is gradually worsening.
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The number of Palestinian children killed by live ammunition fired by Israeli forces has almost tripled since 7 October 2023, compared with the preceding 10 months, rising from 39 to 115.

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15/08/2024

Almost Half a Billion Children Live in Areas Experiencing at Least Twice as Many Extremely Hot Days as Their Grandparents – UNICEF

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Eight countries, including Mali, Niger, Senegal, South Sudan and Sudan, are home to children who spend more than half the year in temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius / 95 degrees Fahrenheit

A child in Cambodia pours water over their head
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NEW YORK, 14 August 2024 (UNICEF)* –– One in 5 children – or 466 million – live in areas that experience at least double the number of extremely hot days every year compared to just six decades ago, according to a new UNICEF analysis.

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