Mark Lowcock, who’s also the Humanitarian Affairs chief, said that after a decade of “death, destruction, displacement, disease, dread and despair”, Syrians “see no respite”.
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29/03/2021
Motherhood on the Brink: Pregnant Women in Yemen under Famine and Violence
Human Wrongs Watch
CRATER, Yemen, 25 March 2021 (UNFPA)* — “It was the morning of a normal working day before fighting escalated close to the hospital. I heard a mother screaming at the gate,” midwife Shrook Khalid Saeed told UNFPA this week at the Al Shaab Hospital in the district of Crater, in Yemen.
Midwife Shrook Khalid Saeed tells UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem about a harrowing delivery. © UNFPA Yemen
29/03/2021
Myanmar: Top UN Officials Condemn Military’s ‘Shameful, Cowardly’ Attacks on Peaceful Protesters
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Two senior UN officials denounced on Sunday [28 March 2021], “systematic” attacks on peaceful demonstrators in Myanmar and flagged that the international community has a responsibility to protect the people from atrocities.
Following another day of widespread bloodshed by the Myanmar military, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and Michelle Bachelet, High Commissioner for Human Rights, strongly condemned the Myanmar military’s widespread, lethal, increasingly systematic attacks against peaceful protesters, as well as other serious violations of human rights since it seized power on 1 February.
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28/03/2021
‘Everything Is Burnt to Ashes’
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Halima lost everything in the fire that ripped through a large area of Kutupalong camp, and she still does not know the whereabouts of one of her children. © UNHCR/Amos Halder
28/03/2021
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples ‘Best Guardians’ of Forests
Human Wrongs Watch
Improving tenure in Amazon basin can lower deforestation rates and biodiversity loss
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean are the best guardians of their forests when compared to those responsible for the region’s other forests.
Santiago, Chile/Rome (FAO)* – Deforestation rates are significantly lower in Indigenous and Tribal territories where governments have formally recognized collective land rights, according to a new report launched on 25 March 2021.
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28/03/2021
Machine Learning Used as Weaponization by Adversaries
Machine Learning can be used as a solution or as harm depending on the situation | Image from Wall Street International.
24/03/2021
End Vaccine Apartheid Before Millions More Die
Human Wrongs Watch
– At least 85 poor countries will not have significant access to coronavirus vaccines before 2023. Unfortunately, a year’s delay will cause an estimated 2.5 million avoidable deaths in low and lower-middle income countries. As the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General has put it, the world is at the brink of a catastrophic moral failure.
Anis Chowdhury
Vaccine apartheid
The EU, US, UK, Switzerland, Canada and their allies continue to block the developing country proposal to temporarily suspend the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement to enable greatly increased, affordable supplies of COVID-19 vaccines, drugs, tests and equipment.
Meanwhile, 6.4 billion of the 12.5 billion vaccine doses the main producers plan to produce in 2021 have already been pre-ordered, mostly by these countries, with 13% of the global population.
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24/03/2021
‘Acute Hunger Set to Soar in over 20 Countries in the Coming Months without Urgent and Scaled-Up Assistance’
Human Wrongs Watch
ROME (FAO)* – Acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance, warn the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) in a new report issued on 23 March 2021.
Agong and her child in South Sudan, where over 7 million people are projected to fall into crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity.
23/03/2021
Massive Humanitarian Assistance to Tens of Thousands of Rohingya Refugees After a Devastating Fire in Their Densely Populated Camp in Bangladesh
Human Wrongs Watch
23 March 2021 (UN News)* — United Nations humanitarian personnel are on the ground evacuating and assisting tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees, after a devastating fire tore through their densely populated camp in southern Bangladesh.
Though exact numbers are yet to be confirmed, initial estimates indicate that more than 87,000 refugees could have been affected in the fire, which started around 3pm on Monday (local time) in Camp 8W of the Kutupalong mega camp.
23/03/2021
Racism: “Horrific” Deadly Attacks, Harassment, Bullying in Schools, Workplace Discrimination, Incitement to Hatred, Incendiary Language…
Human Wrongs Watch
UN chief ‘profoundly concerned’ over rise in violence against Asians
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22 March 2021 (UN News)* — The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has issued a statement expressing his profound concern over the rise in violence against Asians, and people of Asian descent, during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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