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25/03/2024

World’s Democracies Threatened by Disinformation Generated by Artificial Intelligence

Human Wrongs Watch

By Thalif Deen

On March 21, the 193-member UN General Assembly adopted a landmark resolution—the first ever — on the promotion of “safe, secure and trustworthy” artificial intelligence (AI) systems that will also benefit “sustainable development for all”. Adopting a United States-led draft resolution, without a vote, the Assembly also highlighted the respect, protection and promotion of human rights in the design, development, deployment and the use of AI. The text was “co-sponsored” or backed by more than 120 other Member States

Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 25 2024 (IPS)* – Speaking at the third Summit for Democracy in South Korea last week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that a malicious “flood” of disinformation is threatening the world’s democracies—triggered in part by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI).

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23/03/2024

Sudan: Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation and Recruitment of Children on the Rise: UN Human Rights Experts

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GENEVA (UN Human Rights) 22 March 2024 – UN experts* today expressed alarm about increasing reports of trafficking in persons, especially women and girls, for purposes of sexual exploitation and sexual slavery, child and forced marriage, and the recruitment of boys for participation in hostilities in Sudan, against the backdrop of the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the country that has caused an unprecedented mass displacement of over 9 million people.

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© WFP/Hugh Rutherford | Families arrive in South Sudan after fleeing fighting in Sudan.

Access to support for victims and survivors has reportedly deteriorated since December 2023, eight months after the outbreak of conflict between Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in April 2023, the experts said.

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23/03/2024

Discovery of Mass Grave with 65 Migrants’ Bodies in Libya

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Geneva, 22 March 2024 (IOM)*  — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is profoundly shocked and alarmed by the discovery of at least 65 migrants’ bodies in a mass grave in Southwest Libya.

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© UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi | Migrants sit in the courtyard of a detention centre in Libya. (file)
 

The circumstance of their death and nationalities remains unknown, but it is believed that they died in the process of being smuggled through the desert. 

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23/03/2024

Gaza: UN Aid Team Reaches Stricken North, Confirms ‘Shocking’ Disease and Hunger

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(UN News)* — Amid reports of ongoing bombardment across Gaza on Friday [], UN humanitarians highlighted “shocking levels of disease and hunger” after visiting an overwhelmed hospital in the north of the enclave.

Destruction in Gaza City in the sixth month of the conflict.
© UNICEF/Omar Al-Qattaa | Destruction in Gaza City in the sixth month of the conflict.

The UN’s top aid official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Jamie McGoldrick, reached Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia on Thursday, where children with the most severe and life-threatening hunger are being treated at a new World Health Organization (WHO)-supported specialised feeding facility.

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23/03/2024

Palestinian Unemployment Rate Set to Soar to 57% During First Quarter of 2024

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New estimates show a loss of 507,000 jobs to date, shedding light on how the disruptions to economic life have led to unprecedented losses in employment and livelihoods across the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

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BEIRUT (ILO)* – Some 507,000 jobs have been lost across the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) as of the end of January 2024 due to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, according to new estimates issued by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

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21/03/2024

Democracy’s Contested Territory

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By Inés M. Pousadela*

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Mar 19 2024 (IPS)* –– This year more than half the world’s population has the chance to go to the polls. That might make it look like the most democratic year ever, but the reality is more troubling.

Too many of those elections won’t give people a real say and won’t offer any opportunity for change.

Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images

2024’s bumper election year comes as a record number of countries are sliding towards authoritarianism, and global advances in democratisation achieved over more than three decades have been all but wiped out.

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21/03/2024

The International Organization for Migration Appeals for $119 Million to Support Nearly a Million Rohingya Refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

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Geneva/Cox’s Bazar, 14 March 20214 (IOM)* -– The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is appealing for USD 119 million to support nearly a million Rohingya refugees in the world’s largest refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, and the vulnerable community generously hosting them. 

Nearly a million Rohingya refugees have sought temporary refuge in Cox’s Bazar. Women and children account for over 75 per cent of the refugee population. Photo: IOM Bangladesh

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20/03/2024

Records Smashed – New WMO Climate Report Confirms 2023 Hottest So Far

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(UN News)* — Records were once again broken for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, ice cover and glacier retreat, a new global report issued by the UN weather agency (WMO) on Tuesday [] shows.

Rising sea levels are causing the regular flooding of homes in Bangladesh.
© WFP/Sayed Asif Mahmud | Rising sea levels are causing the regular flooding of homes in Bangladesh.

Heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires and rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones caused misery and mayhem, upending everyday life for millions and inflicting many billions of dollars in economic losses, according to the WMO State of the Global Climate 2023 report.

“Sirens are blaring across all major indicators… Some records aren’t just chart-topping, they’re chart-busting. And changes are speeding up,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a video message for the launch.

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20/03/2024

Real Estate Events to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met with Protests

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By Natalia Marques | Peoples Dispatches – TRANSCEND Media Service*

Real estate events are taking place to auction off Palestinian land to aspiring settlers. Pro-Palestine activists have called protests in response.

Zionist protesters confronting members of Neturei Karta participating in a pro-Palestine protest in Cedarhurst, Long Island.

14 Mar 2024 – “The Great Real Estate Event” has been touring the United States and Canada, exhibiting property for sale on stolen Palestinian land. Each event has been met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists, sometimes leading to clashes with Zionist attendees and protesters.

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20/03/2024

Gaza: Increasing Numbers of Newborns on Brink of Death

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(UN News)* — UN humanitarians reiterated their resolve on Tuesday [] to help the people of Gaza, where increasing numbers of children are on “the brink of death” from acute hunger, caused by five months of intense Israeli bombardment and constant aid access denials.

On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, southern Gaza.
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba | On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, southern Gaza.

“What doctors and medical staff are telling us is more and more they are seeing the effects of starvation; they’re seeing newborn babies simply dying because they (are) too low birth weight,” said Dr Margaret Harris from the UN World Health Organization (WHO).

“Increasingly, we’re seeing children that are at the point, brink of death that need refeeding,” the WHO spokesperson told journalists in Geneva, a day after global nutrition experts warned that famine could happen “anytime” in northern Gaza.

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