Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The war in Gaza has left a staggering almost 23 millions tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons scattered across the enclave, UN humanitarians said on Friday [].
16/03/2024
Gaza: 23 Million Tonnes of Debris ‘Will Take Years to Clear’; Acute Malnutrition Doubles in a Month
15/03/2024
US Delivers Both Life –and Death– to a Devastated Gaza
Human Wrongs Watch
– The Biden administration’s sheer hypocrisy is reflected in its policy of dropping food packages into a devastated Gaza, while at the same time, it continues to arm Israel with missiles and heavy artillery to kill Palestinian civilians suffering hunger and starvation.
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Much of the Gaza Strip lies in ruins. Credit: UNRWA/Ashraf Amra. February 2024
As US Congressman Ro Khanna (Democrat of California) said last week: “You can’t have a policy of giving aid (to Palestinians) and giving Israel the weapons to bomb the food trucks at the same time.”
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15/03/2024
How the ‘Fight against Antisemitism’ Became a Shield for Israel’s Genocide
Human Wrongs Watch
By Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Western capitals no longer treat Israel like a state, a political actor capable of slaughtering children, but rather as a sacred cause. So any opposition has to be a blasphemy.
7 Mar 2024 – If you read the establishment media, you might conclude that a serious battle is being waged by Israel and its most ardent supporters to tackle an apparent new wave of antisemitism in the West.
Jonathan Cook
In article after article, we are told how Israel and western Jewish leadership bodies are demanding our concern, and outrage, at a rise in anti-Jewish hate incidents.
Organisations such as the Community Security Trust in the UK and the Anti-Defamation League in the US produce lengthy reports on the relentless increase in antisemitism, especially since 7 October, and warn that action is urgently required.
Undoubtedly, there is a real threat of antisemitism and, as ever, it comes largely from the far right. Israel’s actions – and its false claim to be representing all Jews – only help to stoke it.
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15/03/2024
Haiti: World Food Programme ‘Will Be Forced to Stop Serving Hot Meals to Those Who Urgently Need Food as Soon as Next Week Due to Lack of Funds’
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Out-of-control gang violence has created a humanitarian crisis in Haiti that the UN aims to help alleviate with the creation of an airbridge with the neighbouring Dominican Republic.
15/03/2024
Waves of Violence Have Displaced More Than 15,000 Haitians in Just a Week – “Port-au-Prince Is Under Siege”
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Waves of violence have displaced more than 15,000 Haitians in just a week amid ongoing looting at the country’s main port, according to the latest report from the UN agency for migration, as the Security Council on Monday [] strongly condemned “destabilizing” criminal activity by armed gangs ravaging the Caribbean nation.
Council members urged the armed gangs to “immediately cease their destabilizing actions” and reiterated the call for the “perpetrators of these abhorrent acts to be brought to justice”, according to a statement issued following a closed-door briefing last week by the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH).
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13/03/2024
‘Haiti Is on the Edge of a Devastating Hunger Crisis…’
Human Wrongs Watch
World Food Programme scrambles to respond to hunger crisis in Haiti amid funding crunch as country teeters on the brink
Photo: WFP/Antoine Vallas
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (WFP)* -– The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has on 12 March 2024 warned that Haiti is on the edge of a devastating hunger crisis, with humanitarian operations at risk of grinding to a halt, as rampant insecurity limits access to communities and donor funding dries up.
As fighting raging across the capital, WFP has been able to reach almost 300,000 people in the first ten days of March, delivering vital hot meals, food distributions, mobile money transfers and meals in schools. read more »
13/03/2024
Global South Stagnating under Heavier Debt Burden
Human Wrongs Watch
– Much higher interest rates – due to Western central banks – are suffocating developing nations, especially the poorest, causing prolonged debt distress and economic stagnation.
US Fed-induced stagnation
After the greatest US Fed-led surge in international interest rates in more than four decades, developing countries spent $443.5 billion to service their external government and government-guaranteed debt in 2022.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
The World Bank’s last International Debt Report showed most of the poorest countries in debt distress as borrowing costs began to surge.
The increase has cut into scarce fiscal resources, reducing social spending on health and education.
Debt-servicing costs for all developing countries in 2022 increased by 5% over 2021. The US Fed continued to raise interest rates through 2023, compounding debt distress, while the European Central Bank warns against ‘prematurely’ lowering interest rates.
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10/03/2024
Gaza: ‘Any assault by Israeli forces on the densely populated city of Rafah… will hugely increase the risk of atrocity crimes’
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Any assault by Israeli forces on the densely populated city of Rafah where 1.5 million have sought shelter following mass displacement, will hugely increase the risk of atrocity crimes, the UN High Commissioner for Human rights warned on Friday [].
Spokesperson for Volker Türk in Geneva, Jeremy Laurence, told journalists that an already catastrophic situation could “slide deeper into the abyss” in the coming days if Israeli forces make their move on the southern border city, carrying through with their threat to invade, unless Hamas militants hand over remaining hostages by the start of Ramadan.
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09/03/2024
Over 110,000 Displaced in Mozambique Amidst Surging Violence as Needs Soar
Human Wrongs Watch
Geneva/ Maputo, 8 March 2024 (IOM)* -– More than 110,000 people have been displaced since end of last year (December 22) by the resurgence of attacks by non-state armed groups in a distressing escalation of violence in Cabo Delgado Province.
This alarming figure represents the second-largest wave of displacement in Cabo Delgado since the onset of the conflict in 2017, underscoring the deepening humanitarian crisis in the area. The violence has seen a horrifying increase, with affected communities bearing the brunt of these relentless attacks.
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09/03/2024
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