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25/10/2024
Dear Politicians: Let’s Pull the Climate Emergency Brake on Meat & Dairy Companies
24/10/2024
Loss and Uncertainty for Lebanon’s Children – UNICEF
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The conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of children and their families.
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23 October 2024 (UNICEF)* — “We could see the rockets above us. We saw them while we were running,” Zeinab says as she recalls the moments after she fled from her aunt’s home. “We saw them and just kept running.”
Zeinab is one of the more than 1 million people in Lebanon who have been displaced by the catastrophic escalation of hostilities.
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24/10/2024
‘Intense Bombardments, Mass Displacements and Lack of Access in Northern Gaza Force the Postponement of Polio Vaccination Campaign’
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EAST JERUSALEM/AMMAN/GENEVA, 23 October 2024 (UNICEF/WHO)* – Due to the escalating violence, intense bombardment, mass displacement orders, and lack of assured humanitarian pauses across most of northern Gaza, the Polio Technical Committee for Gaza, including the Palestinian Ministry of Health, World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and partners have been compelled to postpone the third phase of the polio vaccination campaign, which was set to begin today.
24/10/2024
Northern Gaza: “The Smell of Death Is Everywhere as Bodies Are Left Lying on the Roads or Under the Rubble…”
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(UN News)* — The head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA appealed on Tuesday [] for an immediate truce in northern Gaza in a social media post describing how “three weeks of non-stop bombardments” by Israeli forces have impacted the region.
22/10/2024
Beyond the Headlines: The Hidden Impact of Flooding on Agriculture and Soil Health
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– Hurricanes Helene and Milton resulted in record-setting rain, flooding, and flash flooding events across several states, including Florida and North Carolina, leaving devastating impacts on people, communities, and infrastructure that will require many years of rebuilding and recovery.
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Eventually, flooding waters recede, leaving behind a path of destruction and a fundamentally different habitat for non-human beings including plants and soil dwelling macro and microorganisms. Credit: Shutterstock.
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22/10/2024
‘Make Peace with Nature’ – UN Biodiversity Summit in Colombia
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(UN News)* — UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged delegations from some 190 countries to “make peace with nature” and shore up a plan to stop habitat loss, save endangered species, and preserve our planet’s precious ecosystems as the latest UN biodiversity summit got under way in Cali, Colombia on Sunday [] night.
22/10/2024
Israel’s War on the World
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By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service*
17 Oct 2024 – Each new week brings new calamities for people in the countries neighboring Israel, as its leaders try to bomb their way to the promised land of an ever-expanding Greater Israel.
Photo credit: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, Wikimedia Commons
In Gaza, Israel appears to be launching its “Generals’ Plan” to drive the most devastated and traumatized 2.2 million people in the world into the southern half of their open-air prison.
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21/10/2024
Children in Lebanon Are at Growing Risk of Health and Protection Issues, Including Waterborne Diseases Like Cholera, Hepatitis and Diarrhoea – UNICEF
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BEIRUT, 16 October 2024 (UNICEF)* – Children in Lebanon are at growing risk of health and protection issues – including waterborne diseases like cholera, hepatitis and diarrhoea – as the continued bombardment of the country increasingly disrupts and damages essential services that families rely on.
UNICEF/al Mussawir – Ramzi HaidarSouthern Beirut suburbs following airstrikes during the first 3 days of October 2024.
At least 28 water facilities have been damaged by the conflict, affecting water supply to more than 360,000 people, primarily in the south of the country.
21/10/2024
Israeli Army ‘Deliberately Demolished’ Watchtower, Fence at United Nations Peacekeeping Site in Southern Lebanon
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(UN News)* — The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has said that an Israeli army bulldozer demolished an observation tower and the perimeter fence of a UN position earlier on Sunday [] in Marwahin, in the southern part of the country.
20/10/2024
Palestine: International Law Obliges Israel to End Occupation – Independent Human Rights Experts
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(UN News)* — All States and international organizations, including the United Nations, have obligations under international law to bring to an end Israel’s unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, according to a new legal position paper released Friday [] by a top independent human rights panel.
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It details the obligations for Israel, third-party States and the UN to bring to an end the unlawful occupation, according to the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.
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