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Gladys Mugabe (69) lives with her disabled son in Harare Gardens, a well-known recreational park in the Zimbabwean capital. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS
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01/01/2024
Lookahead to 2024: January to June
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(UN News)* — In 2024, the UN will once again be at the heart of international efforts to tackle the world’s most urgent challenges, from bolstering the global economy, to supporting climate action and keeping the peace in conflict hotspots.
© UNICEF/Raphael Pouget | Children make a shape with their hands in the south Omo district of southern Ethiopia.
30/12/2023
Explainer: How Darfur Became a ‘Humanitarian Calamity and Catastrophic Human Rights Crisis’
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(UN News)* — The outbreak of conflict seven months ago in Sudan has led to “a convergence of a worsening humanitarian calamity and a catastrophic human rights crisis”, according to a senior UN official, and the restive region of Darfur has been particularly badly affected.
28/12/2023
A Dangerous Web of Climate Change, Water Scarcity and Displacement in the Middle East and North Africa
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By the Norwegian Refugee Council*
In a region scarred by years of wars and displacement, climate change and water scarcity have become yet another threat for fragile contexts in Middle East and North Africa.
Dried reeds in the marshes of southern Iraq. Photo: Fareed Baram/NRC
In this region, populations’ ability to cope with the impacts of climate change is limited, thereby aggravating their overall vulnerability.
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28/12/2023
Digging Deeper into the Arid Terrain of the World’s Largest Landlocked Country
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By FAO – UN Food and Agriculture Organization*
How Uzbekistan’s farmers are overcoming soil salinity and water shortages.
After years of soil degradation in western Uzbekistan, smallholder farmers like Adyl have turned to climate-smart techniques to tackle the impacts of drought. ©Temur Khujanazarov
24/12/2023
Regenerative Agroecology: The Necessary Solution to Counter Climate Change
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By Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The industrial agriculture paradigm, which sees the world as a machine, and not as a self-organized living system, has created devastation on the planet, while contributing significantly to the issue of climate change.
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Navdanya International’s latest graphic report, ‘Regeneration is Life‘, presented at Cop 28 in Dubai, analyzes the actual causes at the root of climate change and highlights the true regenerative solutions against the false solutions proposed by polluters.
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23/12/2023
Dengue Spike Fuels Concerns of Public Health Threat in Previously Untouched Countries: WHO
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(UN News)* — This year’s surprising spike in dengue infections globally represents a potentially high public health threat, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday [22 December 2023].
© UNDP/Gwenn Dubourthoumieu | Bed nets protect against mosquitoes that carry diseases like malaria and dengue fever.
The warning came as WHO reported more than five million dengue infections and 5,000 deaths from the disease worldwide this year.
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17/12/2023
Refugees in the US Shouldn’t Pay the Price for Aid to Ukraine
By Bill Frelick, Director, Refugee and Migrant Rights Division | Human Rights Watch*
Lawmakers Demand Mandatory Detention in Return for Aid Support
The Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia, New Mexico, US, September 29, 2022. © 2023 Andres Leighton/AP Photo
The Biden administration is reportedly considering accepting mandatory detention of asylum seekers, one of the demands of Republican Party lawmakers to “secure the border” in exchange for passing the administration’s supplemental aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, and US border enforcement.
The US Immigration and Nationality Act already makes detention mandatory for asylum seekers in expedited removal who are awaiting credible fear of persecution interviews.
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17/12/2023
Mountains Matter and the Cryosphere Is Critical
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(WMO)* — Mountains Matter and the Cryosphere is Critical is the message from the peaks to the valleys to the desert landscape of COP28 in Dubai on International Mountain Day, an annual event on 11 December drawing attention to the importance of our mountain ecosystems to the whole planet. 
15/12/2023
Gaza Flooding Latest Disaster to Hit Desperate Palestinians
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(UN News)* — Heavy rains created new misery in Gaza as UN humanitarians repeated deep concerns on Thursday [] over the deteriorating health situation in the Strip, amid ongoing Israeli bombardment and fighting with Palestinian armed groups.
UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA said that many areas in the enclave have been flooded, “worsening the struggle of displaced Palestinians”, while UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini was due to brief journalists in Geneva on the situation on Thursday, following his most recent visit to Gaza.
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