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31/07/2021

Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan in the First Half of 2021 Reached Record Levels, with a Particularly Sharp Increase in Killings and Injuries since May

KABUL  – Civilian casualties in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 reached record levels, including a particularly sharp increase in killings and injuries since May when international military forces began their withdrawal and the fighting intensified following the Taliban’s offensive.

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In a new report issued on 26 July 2021, the United Nations warns that without a significant de-escalation in violence Afghanistan is on course for 2021 to witness the highest ever number of documented civilian casualties in a single year since UNAMA records began.

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31/07/2021

Six Months after Coup, Myanmar’s Political, Rights and Aid Crisis Is Worsening

Human Wrongs Watch

30 July 2021 (UN News)* — It’s been six months since the military coup in Myanmar where there’s grave concern over the widening impact of the deepening political, human rights and humanitarian crisis affecting the country’s people.

People praying in the grounds of a temple in Yangon, Myanmar, the country's largest city.
Unsplash/Matteo Massimi | People praying in the grounds of a temple in Yangon, Myanmar, the country’s largest city.
 

Speaking to UN News, the organisation’s top aid official in Myanmar, Acting Humanitarian and Resident Coordinator Ramanathan Balakrishnan, described how people have been severely impacted across the country since the junta’s power grab on 1 February.

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31/07/2021

100,000 Children in Tigray at Risk of Death from Malnutrition: UNICEF 

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — More than 100,000 children in Tigray, Ethiopia, could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in the next 12 months, a tenfold jump over average annual levels, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday 30 July 2021.

A child is screened for malnutrition at a health centre in Tigray, Ethiopia.
© UNICEF/Mulugeta Ayene | A child is screened for malnutrition at a health centre in Tigray, Ethiopia.

The development comes as UNICEF announced that it had recently reached areas of Tigray that were previously inaccessible owing to insecurity linked to nearly nine months of conflict between Government forces and those loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF.

UNICEF spokesperson Marixie Mercado told a UN briefing in Geneva that humanitarians’ worst fears about the health and wellbeing of children have been realized.

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30/07/2021

South Africa: The Long Walk to Freedom and a Short Walk to Nowhere

Human Wrongs Watch

By Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service*

The Values Espoused by Madiba[1] Are Burnt in the Civil Unrest

The cold, wintry South African weather experienced last week was the background setting for the serious, nationwide riots, in the midst of the Third Wave of SARS Cov-2 pandemic, with the Delta variant[2], wreaking havoc amongst the large unvaccinated population of South Africa.

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30/07/2021

The Latest on the Crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region

Human Wrongs Watch

By Laetitia Bader, and Amy Braunschweiger*

Tigrayans who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region stand on a hilltop overlooking Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, November 26, 2020Tigrayans who fled the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region stand on a hilltop overlooking Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, November 26, 2020 © 2020 Nariman El-Mofty/AP Images

30 July 2021 (Human Rights Watch)* — Fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is entering its ninth month, and it may intensify after leaders in several of Ethiopia’s regions as well as its capital, Addis Ababa, called on residents, including youth, to mobilize against the Tigray fighters.

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30/07/2021

Greece: Stop Denying Refugee Children an Education

Human Wrongs Watch

By Human Rights Watch*

Ensure All Asylum-Seeking Children Are Enrolled in Coming School Year

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Parwana Amiri, 17, lives in the Ritsona camp, near Athens. She has helped organize informal classes for asylum-seeking children in the camp, whose access to public schools was severely limited by local authorities during the 2020-21 school year. © 2021 Human Rights Watch. ©

(Athens) – The Greek government should urgently reform discriminatory policies so that children seeking asylum can go to school when the new year begins on September 13, 2021, Human Rights Watch on 29 July 2021 said.

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30/07/2021

Consider the Huge Cost of NOT Funding School Meals, Urges World Food Programme

Human Wrongs Watch

By Paul Anthem*

New coalition to scale up programmes across the world

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WFP Executive Director David Beasley describes the importance of school meals during a session on the new School Meals Coalition, as part of the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit in Rome. Photo: WFP/Giulio d’Adamo

The price of failing to fund children’s school meals far outweighs the cost of such programmes, World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley said on 28 July 2021.

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30/07/2021

Meet Mariam, a Returnee Back on Track After a Nightmare Ordeal

Conakry (International Organizaion for Migration)* – As a teenager, Mariam Conté’s dream of going to school in France led her down a road to hell.

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Nasra suffered from distance, pressure, racism and injustice in a context she thought was safe. In her migratory journey, she was a victim of trafficking. Photo: Sibylle Desjardins / IOM

“I wanted to go to France to continue my education, but I failed to secure the required resources and support,” she says.

“I couldn’t make the journey through regular channels so friends proposed we travel through Libya. We sold an uncle’s vehicle to pay XOF 1,000,000 (EUR 1,500) to a Burkinabé smuggler.”

Life then took a grim turn. Mariam travelled through Algeria and Libya, where she was sequestered under harsh and humiliating conditions. She was trafficked, primarily for prostitution and sexual slavery.

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30/07/2021

Local Groups Offer Vital Assistance to Newly Displaced in Myanmar

Human Wrongs Watch

By Reuben Lim Wende in Myitkyina, Myanmar  |  UNHCR*

UNHCR is partnering with local communities and faith groups to help an estimated 200,000 people driven from their homes by fresh violence since February’s military takeover. |  Español   |  Français   |  عربي

.Myanmar. IDP displaced in Kachin State in March 2021 supported by UNHCR and partnersNway Nway Htay, 27, and her son at Trinity IDP Camp in Kachin State, Myanmar, where they are registered in order to receive assistance.  © UNHCR/Reuben Lim Wende
Armed conflict is sadly nothing new for 27-year-old Nway Nway Htay. An ethnic Rakhine woman originally from Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, she became familiar with the sounds of artillery and gunfire as the Myanmar Armed Forces, locally known as the Tatmadaw, battled ethnic armed groups in her native state. Security was something she constantly worried about.

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30/07/2021

‘I’m Not Old Enough to Be a Woman’ Says Trafficked Teen

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30 July 2021 (UN News)* — A teenage girl who was sold for sex for the price of a few beers as a twelve-year-old, has told the United Nations how she was trafficked between Burundi and Tanzania in East Africa.

Elisabeth, now 16 years old, has been reunited with her family in Burundi.
© IOM 2021/Lauriane Wolfe | Elisabeth, now 16 years old, has been reunited with her family in Burundi.
Some one thousand victims of human trafficking have been identified in Burundi since 2017, according to the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Elisabeth (not her real name) is one of the lucky ones. She survived the ordeal and received assistance from IOM to return home to Burundi.

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