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31/05/2024

“Harrowing Images of Destruction, Displacement and Death Have Emerged from Rafah, Including Infants Torn Apart and People Burnt Alive”

Human Wrongs Watch

By UN Human Rights*

UN experts outraged by Israeli strikes on civilians sheltering in Rafah camps.

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© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba | People in Rafah city in the Gaza Strip flee a missile attack.

GENEVA – Israeli air strikes on a camp sheltering displaced civilians in Tal al-Sultan in Rafah, that have reportedly claimed at least 46 lives including 23 women, children and older persons on Sunday night are an outrage, UN experts* said today [29 May 2024], demanding decisive international action to end the bloodshed in Gaza.

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31/05/2024

Amid Ongoing Israeli Incursions into Gaza, Aid Facilities Shut ‘One after Another’

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(UN News)* — With no let up in reported street battles and Israeli bombardment across Gaza on Thursday [], UN humanitarians warned that the flow of vital lifesaving aid into the enclave has fallen by more than two thirds since the Israeli military stepped up its campaign in Rafah and seized the key aid conduit.

Conditions at Al Mawasi camp in southwest Gaza remain unsuitable for the hundreds of thousands of Gazans uprooted by the latest escalation of violence in nearby Rafah and elsewhere across the Gaza Strip.
UN News/Ziad Taleb | Conditions at Al Mawasi camp in southwest Gaza remain unsuitable for the hundreds of thousands of Gazans uprooted by the latest escalation of violence in nearby Rafah and elsewhere across the Gaza Strip.

“Humanitarian facilities in Rafah are forced to close one after another…The flow of humanitarian aid supplies into Gaza, already insufficient to meet the soaring needs, has dropped by 67 per cent since 7 May,” reported the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, amid reports that kitchens, clinics and hospitals are shutting down.

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29/05/2024

Gaza: UN Human Rights Chief Voices ‘Horror’ at Loss of Life in Displaced Palestinians Camp after Israeli strikes

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GENEVA (UN Human Rights) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday [27 May 2024] voiced his horror at the further loss of civilian life in Gaza, after Israeli air strikes on Sunday hit a camp for displaced people in the southern city of Rafah.

 
Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on May 27, 2024 © Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP

SOURCE: OHCHR.

“The images from the camp are horrific and point to no apparent change in the methods and means of warfare used by Israel that have already led to so many civilian deaths,” said Türk.

“Sunday’s strike underscores once again that there is literally no safe place in Gaza.”

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29/05/2024

Congo “Coup” Was Reality TV; Morehouse Congo Protest Was Real

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By Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service*

Morehouse College professors protested US complicity in Congo Genocide by unfurling a Congolese flag behind Joe Biden as he addressed the 2024 graduating class. A brief, quixotic coup took place in Congo on the same day. 

In 2011, Congolese American Christian Malanga offered to pay me to promote his candidacy for president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I declined, believing he suffered from delusions of grandeur.

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29/05/2024

US Supreme Court Allows Racial Discrimination in Electoral Maps

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By Trey Walk, Democracy Researcher & Advocate, US Program | Human Rights Watch*

Ruling Dismisses Challenge by Black Voters Excluded by South Carolina Gerrymandering
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Activists gather outside the US Supreme Court for oral arguments in the Alexander V. South Carolina Conference of the NAACP gerrymandering case in Washington, DC, October 11, 2023. © 2023 Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Photo

On May 23, 2024, the US Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision that allows racial discrimination in the drawing of voting maps, dismissing the voices of Black voters challenging racial gerrymandering and undermining efforts to build a multiracial democracy in the United States.

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29/05/2024

Small Island States Drowning in Debt and ‘Running on Empty’, Warns UN Chief

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(UN News)* — International financing is the fuel for sustainable development, but small island States are “running on empty” – drowning in debt and rising sea levels due to climate change and through no fault of their own.

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A view of Antigua and Barbuda, the host of the fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4).
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | A view of Antigua and Barbuda, the host of the fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4).
 

That’s the warning from UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Day Two of the pivotal Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) taking place in the Caribbean twin island nation of Antigua and Barbuda this week.

The 39 States known collectively as SIDS have been uniquely vulnerable to the trifecta of COVID – which crippled the tourism many rely on – the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and “battered by a climate catastrophe they did not create”, said Mr. Guterres.

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28/05/2024

6 Lies Fossil Fuel Companies Tell to Continue Business as Usual

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By Lisa Göldner | Greenpeace International*

— Every time they are in the spotlight for the disastrous effects of their business, fossil fuel companies serve up the same old fraudulent arguments. Tired of their bogus excuses? So are we. Here are their most common lies and the facts to counter them.

Murray Auchincloss, BP, in a retouched image (left). Local resident during floods in Philippines (bottom). Disclaimer: Images of CEOs used in this campaign are staged and doctored for illustrative purposes. Illustrations are created without the use of generative AI.
Murray Auchincloss, BP, in a retouched image (left). Local resident during floods in Philippines (right). Disclaimer: Images of CEOs used in this campaign are staged and doctored for illustrative purposes. Illustrations are created without the use of generative AI.

False Excuse #1: “We’re only responding to consumer demand”

This is one of the classic arguments for climate inaction from fossil fuel companies: deflecting their responsibilities onto consumers rather than engaging in a real energy transition. No altruistic desire to meet the needs of the population here.

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28/05/2024

Small Island Nations Demand Urgent Global Action at SIDS4 Conference

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By Alison Kentish

The once-in-a-decade SIDS Conference opened in Antigua and Barbuda today [27 May 2024], with a clear message: the world already knows the challenges that SIDS face—now it’s time for action.

King Charles III of Britain addresses the opening ceremony of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States, May 27, 2024. Credit: Alison Kentish/IPS

King Charles III of Britain addresses the opening ceremony of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States, May 27, 2024. Credit: Alison Kentish/IPS

ANTIGUA, May 27 2024 (IPS)* – “This year has been the hottest in history in practically every corner of the globe, foretelling severe impacts on our ecosystems and starkly underscoring the urgency of our predicament. We are gathered here not merely to reiterate our challenges, but to demand and enact solutions,” declared Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Brown at the opening of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States on May 27.

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28/05/2024

Accelerating Extinction Rate Triggers Domino Effect of Biodiversity Loss

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(UN News)* — While nearly one million species are currently at risk of extinction, the United Nations University (UNU) in Bonn is drawing attention to “co-extinctions”: the chain reaction occurring when the complete disappearance of one species affects another.

Gus, the oldest known gopher tortoise, lives at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in Canada.
© Wikimedia/Marty Aligata | Gus, the oldest known gopher tortoise, lives at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in Canada.

The issue is in the spotlight ahead of the International Day for Biological Diversity, observed annually on 22 May, and covered in the most recent edition of UNU’s Interconnected Disaster Risks report.

Among the animals at risk is the gopher tortoise, one of the oldest living species on the planet. This tragic story of biodiversity loss is unfolding at the heart of the coastal plains of the southern United States. 

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26/05/2024

World Meteorological Organization Warns of Up to Seven ‘Major Hurricanes’ in North Atlantic in 2024

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(UN News)*   — The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has issued a warning for an “above average” hurricane season in the North Atlantic in 2024. Based on data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this would mark the ninth consecutive year of anomalies.

Destruction left behind in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria on the island of Dominica. (file)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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IRIN/Ben Parker | Destruction left behind in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria on the island of Dominica. (file)

Typically, an average year sees 14 named storms with wind speeds exceeding 65 kilometres (40 miles) per hour. However, this year, 17 to 25 storms are expected, with four to seven of them potentially becoming major hurricanes, characterized by winds of at least 178 kilometres (111 miles) per hour. The usual average is three major hurricanes per year. 

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