Human Wrongs Watch
By Daniel Johnson*
The war in Gaza passed the nine-month mark on Sunday with humanitarians left assessing the damage of a fresh Israeli airstrike on a UN school.
08/07/2024
US Fed- Induced World Stagnation Deepens Debt Distress
Human Wrongs Watch
–For some time, most multilateral financial institutions have urged developing countries to borrow commercially, but not from China. Now, borrowers are stuck in debt traps with little prospect of escape.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
More debt, less growth since 2008: The last decade and a half has seen protracted worldwide stagnation, with some economies and people faring much worse than others.
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07/07/2024
Six Shocking Facts You Didn’t Know about Extreme Weather
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06/07/2024
Alarming Drop in Global Funding to People in War and Crisis
What’s happening in the Central African Republic?: https://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2024/whats-happening-in-the-central-african-republic/. This family fled their village of Loura in CAR after atrocities were committed against civilians. Photo: Marion Guenard/NRC
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“At a time when the world is falling apart for millions of people, we are seeing an increasing trend of international neglect. I have never before seen such a glaring gap between the need for lifesaving aid and available funding…
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06/07/2024
Migrants and Refugees Continue to Face ‘Extreme Horrors’ Not Just at Sea, but Also on Land Routes to Africa’s Mediterranean Coast
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Geneva (IOM)* – Refugees and migrants continue to face extreme forms of violence, human rights violations and exploitation not just at sea, but also on land routes across the African continent, towards its Mediterranean coastline.
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04/07/2024
Sudan’s Cocktail of War and Flooding Leaves People Trapped, Unable to Flee
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Only 19 per cent of the required funds for UNHCR’s refugee response have been received thus far, meaning that food rations have had to be “drastically cut”
04/07/2024
Gaza ‘Split in Two’: Blockades Restrict Movement of Displaced People Seeking Shelter and Aid Workers Trying to Assist Civilians in Desperate Needs
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()* — The Gaza Strip is virtually “split in two”, with blockades not only restricting the movement of displaced people seeking shelter, but also aid workers trying to assist civilians in desperate need, a UN relief official said on Wednesday [3 July 2024].
Speaking via video link from Jerusalem, Andrea De Domenico, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), said people have been forced to “completely reset their lives over and over again.”
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03/07/2024
Israeli Defense Minister Vows to Return Lebanon to ‘Stone Age’
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By Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The White House reversed course and now says a ceasefire in Lebanon cannot be contingent on a deal in Gaza.
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27 Jun 2024 – Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel was prepared to send Lebanon back to the “Stone Age” with a massive bombing campaign. The White House desperately tries to avert a major war in the Middle East but is not making progress.
After three days of meetings with top officials in Washington, Gallant told reporters that Israel preferred diplomacy but was also willing to utterly destroy Lebanon.
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03/07/2024
US Arms Suppliers in Gaza Killings Should Be “Named, Shamed & Boycotted”
Human Wrongs Watch
– The US gun lobby justifies the unfettered American gun ownership in the US on a misguided premise: Guns don’t kill people, it’s bullets that kill people.
A child watches as bodies are recovered from under the rubble of a house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Credit: UN News/Ziad Taleb
The accusations of genocide and war crimes in Gaza have been directed firstly, at Israel, for the killings of more than 37,700, mostly civilians, and over 86,000 injured, in retaliation for the 1,200 killed by Hamas last October, according to estimates from Gaza health officials, as cited by Cable News Network (CNN) last week.
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03/07/2024
Gaza Is a ‘Maelstrom of Human Misery’
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(UN News)* — With their homes shattered and lives upended by war, civilians in Gaza are clinging to their dignity under the most inhumane conditions, Sigrid Kaag, the UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator, said on Tuesday [2 July 2024].
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