Human Wrongs Watch
Gaza: Children are starving amid persistent aid access obstacles, warn UN agencies
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01/06/2024
Gaza: More than 4 in 5 Children “Did Not Eat for a Whole Day at Least Once in Three Days”
31/05/2024
Plastic Soup, Plastic Islands: How Small Island Developing States Can End Plastic Pollution
Human Wrongs Watch
– Scattered over the vast area of our oceans, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are often pictured as blue, serene and beautiful paradises. However, we are risk losing the beauty of these islands, due to the triple threats of climate change, loss of biodiversity, and pollution, especially marine plastic debris.
If not stopped, the annual flow of plastic into the ocean will nearly triple by 2040, to 29 million metric tonnes per year, 50 kilgrammes of plastic for every metre of coastline worldwide. Credit: UN Development Programme (UNDP)
If business continues as usual, the annual flow of plastic into the ocean will nearly triple by 2040, to 29 million metric tonnes per year, equivalent to 50 kilogrammes of plastic for every metre of coastline worldwide. Soon, the ocean will turn into plastic soup, and islands will be covered in, and surrounded by, plastic waste.
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31/05/2024
Why Are Flash Floods So Deadly in Afghanistan?
Human Wrongs Watch
By the United Nations Development Programme*
29 May 2024 — Starting in April, flash floods have wreaked havoc across Afghanistan, leaving at least 300 dead, hundreds injured, and nearly 9,000 homes destroyed. Thousands are now homeless. Roads, bridges, schools, and health facilities in Baghlan, Badakshan, Takhar, Faryab and Ghor are in ruins.
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Once again, Afghanistan is heavily affected by a climate catastrophe after last year’s earthquakes in Herat, and frequent sandstorms and drought hitting the most vulnerable, particularly women and children, the hardest.
But why are these sudden deluges so deadly, and what makes this disaster particularly devastating?
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31/05/2024
Over 3 Million Displaced in Ethiopia, More than Half Due to Conflict
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By the International Organization for Migration – IOM*
Geneva/ Addis Ababa, 29 May – Over 3 million people were internally displaced in Ethiopia by the end of last year according to the latest National Displacement Report by the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM).
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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31/05/2024
Amid Ongoing Israeli Incursions into Gaza, Aid Facilities Shut ‘One after Another’
Human Wrongs Watch
(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.
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.
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
Human Wrongs Watch
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
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