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20/08/2024

Widespread Floods and Uptick in Fighting Deepen Humanitarian Crisis in Myanmar

Human Wrongs Watch

By Vibhu Mishra

(UN News)* — A surge in conflict combined with torrential rains and floods is deepening the crisis in Myanmar, leading to a surge in displacement, UN humanitarians have said.

Destroyed houses in a village in Sagaing province. (file)
© UNICEF/Myo Thame | Destroyed houses in a village in Sagaing province. (file)
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Overflowing rivers have submerged towns and villages, impacting nearly 400,000 people, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported.
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Critical infrastructure has been damaged – including roads and railways – along with wide swaths of cropland, threatening both livelihoods and food security.

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20/08/2024

Humanitarian Aid to Sudan Civilians Stalled by Floods and Violence

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(UN News)* — On , UN authorities in Sudan confirmed that truckloads of food and supplies have been approved to cross the border from Chad through the Adre crossing.

Khartoum’s war-destroyed Omdurman market, once a vital economic and social hub. Photo: WFP/Jonathan Dumont

The opening of the vital aid route on Friday was welcomed by officials, as it serves as a vital humanitarian route for delivering urgent aid to millions, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

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19/08/2024

2023 Deadliest Year for Aid Workers – 2024 Could be Even Worse, Predicts UN

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By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 2024 (IPS)*– Back in August 2003, the United Nations faced one of its violent tragedies when a terrorist attack on the UN headquarters in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad claimed the lives of 22 people.
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Among those killed was Sergio Vieira de Mello of Brazil, the UN envoy in Iraq and High Commissioner for Human Rights, who had a long and distinguished UN career stretching over 30 years.

As the UN commemorated World Humanitarian Day on August 19, it continues to be confronted with rising death tolls among both its humanitarian workers and peacekeepers worldwide.

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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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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

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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14/08/2024

Sexual Violence and Famine Stalk Sudan’s Displaced

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By Daniel Johnson

(UN News)* — Sudan’s deepening humanitarian crisis caused by nearly 16 months of war has left countless women and girls subject to sexual violence and rape and tens of thousands of children at risk of death from hunger, UN aid teams said on Tuesday [13 August 2024].

A young girl receives treatment at a hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.
© UNICEF/Mohammed Elibrahimi Isamaldeen | A young girl receives treatment at a hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.

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10/08/2024

Explainer: Why Kenya Is Considered a High Climate Risk for Development Banks

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By Joyce Chimbi

Climate change-related extreme weather jeopardizes Kenya’s development agenda; even though it contributes very little to global warming, it is marked as a high-risk country by development banks.

Drought in Kenya's Ewaso Ngiro river basin in 2017 when pastoralists had to dig for water because much of the river system in Isiolo county had dried up. Credit: Denis Onyodi/KRCS

Drought in Kenya’s Ewaso Ngiro river basin in 2017 when pastoralists had to dig for water because much of the river system in Isiolo county had dried up. Credit: Denis Onyodi/KRCS

NAIROBI, Aug 7 2024 (IPS)* – Kenya contributes less than 0.1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions every year, yet development banks have flagged the East African nation as a high climate risk.

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09/08/2024

Gulf States: Inadequate Heat Protection Putting Workers in Peril

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By Human Rights Watch*

Migrant Workers Fainting, Vomiting in Summer Heat

Construction workers in Doha, Qatar.

Construction workers in Doha, Qatar, November 16, 2022.  © 2022 ddp images via AP Photo

(Beirut) – Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are failing to protect outdoor migrant workers experiencing dangerous, heat-related health risks as global warming-fueled heatwaves envelope the region, Human Rights Watch said on 8 August 2024.

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07/08/2024

The Demise of Democracy and Human Rights Violations in Bangladesh: International Financial Institutions’ Culpability

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By Anis Chowdhury, Khalilur Rahman and Ziauddin Hyder

SYDNEY, NEW YORK, WASHINGTON DC, Aug 6 2024 (IPS)* – The International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) are complicit in the gross human rights violations and death of democracy in Bangladesh.

Anis Chowdhury

They continued to supply financial blood line to the regime, well-documented for its corruptions, human rights violations – such as forced disappearances and tortures in custody – and riggings of votes, including politicization of state institutions in its slide into autocracy.

This is despite their professed commitment to transparency, accountability and good governance (IMF, World Bank, ADB).

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