Human Wrongs Watch
()* — Years of underfunding of humanitarian aid and increasing needs have put millions of Haitians at risk of chronic vulnerability, according to a newly released UN report.
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24/08/2024
Gaza: Vital Aid Supplies Running Low as Schools Hit in Further Strikes
Human Wrongs Watch
By Daniel Johnson
(UN News)* — UN aid teams have warned that vital chorine supplies that are essential for purifying water are running out and deteriorating in Gaza, while humanitarians condemned new strikes on schools sheltering people displaced by the war.
24/08/2024
Gaza: Latest Evacuation Orders Leave Civilians Dangerously Close to Frontline
Human Wrongs Watch
By Daniel Johnson in Geneva and Ziad Taleb in Gaza
“Continuous” Israeli military evacuation orders in Gaza threaten already extremely vulnerable people in the enclave with further forced displacement, raising concerns that vital services could soon be cut off, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday [].
24/08/2024
Empowering Africa’s Informal Market Traders To Deliver Safe Food
Human Wrongs Watch
– Local informal food markets feed millions of urbanites in bustling African cities, but the consequences of tainted food could be illness and death for unsuspecting consumers.
Fisherman Godknows Skota holds gutted and cleaned fish. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS
Over 130,000 people across Africa fall ill and die from consuming unsafe food, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)
An estimated 70 percent of Africa’s urban households buy food from informal markets, such as street vendors, kiosks, and traditional market sellers.
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24/08/2024
Hundreds of Modern Slavery Victims Locked Up in England’s Prisons
Human Wrongs Watch
Exclusive: New immigration laws create ‘hierarchy of victims’ that means many are imprisoned and denied help on release.
Hundreds of modern slavery victims are in prison | Credit: Pexels/Composition by James Battershill
23/08/2024
The Escalating Conflict in the Sahel: A Geopolitical Quagmire
Human Wrongs Watch
By Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The Sahel, this vast arid region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, a region that has long been a battleground for various forces, shows no signs of abating.
Instead, it is intensifying, drawing in both regional and global powers in a struggle that is as much about resources as it is about ideology and control.
Raïs Neza Boneza
The events surrounding the recent ambush of Malian forces on 25 Jul 2024, near Tinsawaten, on the Mali-Algeria border, underscore the complexity and the scale of this conflict.
The Tinsawaten Ambush: A Turning Point?
The ambush on Malian forces at Tinsawaten, a strategic locality straddling the Mali-Algeria border, marks a significant escalation in the conflict.
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23/08/2024
Myanmar: New Atrocities against Rohingya
Human Wrongs Watch
By Human Rights Watch*
Escalating Fighting amid 7 Years of Desperation
(Bangkok) – Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are facing the gravest threats since 2017, when the Myanmar military carried out a sweeping campaign of massacres, rape, and arson in northern Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch on 22 August 2024 said.
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21/08/2024
World Humanitarian Day: ‘In Gaza, we can’t imagine tomorrow’
Human Wrongs Watch
By WFP Editorial Team*
World Food Programme (WFP)‘ staff on the challenges of working in the most testing circumstances.
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Windows shattered by nearby airstrikes. Children crying out from conflict’s psychological blowback. The sense of a hangman’s noose growing ever tighter.
These are some of the stories shared by World Food Programme Gaza employees. Like for hundreds of thousands of fellow Palestinians on the Strip, there is no escaping the 10-month-old war.
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21/08/2024
Biden’s Convention Speech Made Absurd Claims About His Gaza Policy
Human Wrongs Watch
– An observation from George Orwell — “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” — is acutely relevant to how President Biden talked about Gaza during his speech at the Democratic convention Monday night.
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A UN team inspects an unexploded 1,000-pound bomb lying on a main road in Khan Younis. Credit: OCHA/Themba Linden
His words fit into a messaging template now in its eleventh month, depicting the U.S. government as tirelessly seeking peace, while supplying the weapons and bombs that have enabled Israel’s continual slaughter of civilians.
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21/08/2024
Existential Struggle
Human Wrongs Watch
By Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service*
15 Aug 2024 – Now the numbers killed in the indiscriminate slaughter in Gaza exceeded 40,000 registered deaths (72% of them women and children). But the number of deaths could be many folds more (at least ten thousand under the rubble, many thousands died for lack of food or medical care etc).
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Gaza under intense, relentless Israeli bombardment Aug 2024. Photo: Mazin Qumsiyeh
But globally the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. How do they do it and how do we stop it.
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