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
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
Human Wrongs Watch
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
Human Wrongs Watch
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
Human Wrongs Watch
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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25/05/2024
Update on Situation in Gaza, Palestine
Human Wrongs Watch
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.“The city of Rafah is now comprised of three entirely different worlds: the east is an archetypal war zone, the middle is a ghost town, and the west is a congested mass of people living in deplorable conditions.
“People have no choice but to put their faith in so-called ‘humanitarian safe zones’ designated by the forces that have killed their family members and destroyed their homes.
“They have dragged their families and few possessions onward to new locations for the seventh, eighth, ninth time in seven months of war. But as far as we can see, there is nothing ‘humanitarian’ about these areas.
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25/05/2024
‘Israel Must Comply with International Court of Justice Order Calling It to Immediately Halt Military Operations in Rafah’
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By Amnesty International*
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