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Trends affecting humanitarian affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory*
West Bank demolitions and displacement | January 2018 | Photo by OCHA
Today [27 December 2018], the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) released a summary of data collected during 2018. Further breakdowns and statistics from previous years are available through the links below.
Aerial view of the Zocalo square during AMLO Fest to celebrate MeMexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) inaugurated in Mexico City, Dec 1, 2018. | Photo: Reuters | Photo from teleSUR..
Central American Exodus – Migrant Caravan: Migrants Find Strength in Unity
Over 10,000 Central Americans left out of the Northern Triangle-Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador-beginning in mid-October in what they named an Exodus finding strength in unity to take on a one month, 3,000km trek through Mexico to the United States to request asylum from the Donald Trump administration.
25 December 2018 — The construction of sand dams which retain water above and below sand bars, is improving access to water supplies for people in Somalia as the country continues to weather periods of damaging drought.
The Horror of the Yemen War Is Changing Minds At Last
In New York City, at Union Square Holiday Market, Protesting War on Yemen
Photo credit: Felton Davis
Twenty years ago, a small delegation organized by Voices in the Wilderness lived in Baghdad while U.S. cruise missiles attacked more than 100 targets in Iraq.
Following four days of bombing, known as “Operation Desert Fox,” our group visited various Iraqis who had survived direct hits.
One young girl handed me a large missile fragment, saying “Merry Christmas.”
Neoliberal globalization has increased both economic insecurity and cultural anxiety. Have theories of populism taken adequate account of such insecurity – key to understanding the difference between right and left populisms?
“Hungarians won’t live according to the commands of foreign powers”, Orbán told the crowd at Kossuth square, 15 March 2012 | Derzsi Elekes Andor | CC BY-SA 3.0
We appear to be living in an age of populism. Over the past two decades, we have witnessed the rise of right-wing populist parties throughout Europe such as Haider’s Freedom Party in Austria, Victor Orban’s Fidesz Party in Hungary, and the Polish Law and Justice Party. Today, the Five-Star Movement is in the process of negotiating a coalition arrangement with the far-right Liga Nord.
Whose Child is This? Whose child is this? Is this child an Iraqi . . . an Israeli . . . a Chechnyan . . . an Afghani . . . a Kurd . . . a Nigerian? Is she or he English, Indonesian, Spanish, Lebanese, Turkish, Congolese, Bosnian, Persian? Does it matter? Is this child not a daughter or son to each of us?
According to the UN human rights office (OHCHR), although there have been different versions on the sequence of events which led to her death, and the overall health status of seven-year-old Jakelin Ameí Caal, it is not disputed that she died while in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection, after crossing from Mexico, with her father and a larger group of migrants.
“We are deeply worried by the ongoing conflict and the increasing displacement figures. Parties to the conflict must ensure that civilians in the area are protected and are able to safely access life-saving assistance,” said David Manan, Country Director for the Norwegian Refugee Council in Cameroon.
The number of people displaced from their homes in Cameroon’s Anglophone Southwest and Northwest regions and in neighbouring Littoral and West regions has reached 437.000, according to the latest UN estimates.
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