22/03/2022
International law is a meaningless concept when it only applies to people the US power alliance doesn’t like. Neither George W Bush nor Tony Blair are in prison cells at The Hague where international law says they ought to be.
Australian whistleblower David McBride just made the following statement on Twitter:
“I’ve been asked if I think the invasion of Ukraine is illegal.
My answer is: If we don’t hold our own leaders to account, we can’t hold other leaders to account. If the law is not applied consistently, it is not the law. It is simply an excuse we use to target our enemies.
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22/03/2022
(UN News)* — The UN’s top rights official said on Monday [21 March 2022] that amidst a “profound crisis” facing access to basic human rights in Myanmar following the coup in February last year, hundreds of localized armed resistance groups have now formed across the country, triggering “widespread violence in areas that were previously stable”.
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Unsplash/Pyae Sone Htun | Young people take part in a pro-democracy demonstration in Myanmar.
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High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet
told the 49th session of
Human Rights Council (HRC) that the country’s humanitarian crisis continues to expand as systematic brutality by security forces known as the Tatmadaw, has inflamed pre-existing armed conflicts in multiple ethnic states.
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19/03/2022
18 March 2022 (UNHCR)* – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, together with 102 humanitarian and development partners is appealing for US$1.2 billion to deliver much-needed humanitarian assistance and protection to 2.3 million South Sudanese refugees and local communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda. | Español | Français | عربي
Samuel (right), 9, a refugee from South Sudan, shares a textbook with Congolese refugee David, 11, at a school club in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp. © UNHCR/Pauline Omagwa
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19/03/2022
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Across Yemen, 2.2 million children are acutely malnourished, including nearly more than half a million children facing severe acute malnutrition, a life-threatening condition, according to new IPC report. Credit: United Nations.
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18/03/2022
Tripoli, 17 March 2022 (IOM)* – At least 70 migrants are missing at sea and presumed dead off the Libyan shore in the past two weeks, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
On 12 March, a boat reportedly carrying 25 migrants capsized near the Libyan coast of Tobruk. Authorities rescued six migrants and recovered seven bodies while 12 remain missing.
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16/03/2022
(UN News)* — Almost one child per second in Ukraine is becoming a refugee of the war, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday [15 March 2022], as the total number of people who have now fled the country since the Russian invasion began, passed three million.
© WFP/Marco Frattini | Thousands of Ukrainians seek safety in neighbouring Poland.
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We have now reached three million mark in terms of movements of people out of Ukraine to neighbouring countries. And among these people there are some 157,000 third-country nationals,” said Paul Dillon, spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration (
IOM), speaking in Geneva.
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16/03/2022
(UN News)* — Security forces in Myanmar have killed at least 1,600 people and detained more than 12,500, since the military coup last year, the UN rights office said on Tuesday [15 March 2022].
Unsplash/Pyae Sone Htun | Protesters attend a march against the military coup in Myanmar.
In a new report warning that serious rights abuses uncovered in Myanmar may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, appealed to the international community to take “concerted, immediate measures to stem the spiral of violence” there.
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15/03/2022
(UN News)* — Yemen’s already dire hunger crisis is “teetering on the edge of outright catastrophe”, UN agency chiefs said on Monday [14 March 2022], as new data analysis from the war-ravaged country indicated potentially record food insecurity.
© UNICEF/Moohialdin Fuad | An infant is treated for malnutrition at a hospital in Sana’a, Yemen.
Today, more than 17.4 million Yemenis are food insecure; an additional 1.6 million “are expected to fall into emergency levels of hunger” in coming months, taking the total of those with emergency needs, to 7.3 million by the end of the year.
Famine to rise fivefold
Of extreme concern to humanitarians is the likelihood that the number of people experiencing “catastrophic”– or famine-like – levels of hunger, will increase five-fold, from 31,000 now, to 161,000,by 31 December.
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12/03/2022
© UNICEF/Delil Souleiman | Years of conflict, displacement and depletion of financial resources have left Syrian families unable to provide their children’s most basic needs, including winter clothes.
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“The destruction that Syrians have endured is so extensive and deadly that it has few equals in modern history”, said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a statement.
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“There must be no impunity.”
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 