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HRW says ‘refusal to allow aid into Gaza is a war crime’
Oct 25, 2023 06:59Palestinian officials, human rights organizations and anti-war activists sharply criticized the United Nations Security Council for failing to confront the Zionist regime’s atrocities in the Gaza Strip.
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UN report finds humans need to value nature as well as profits to survive
Jul 14, 2022 03:14According to a UN report, a market-based focus on short-term profits and economic growth means the wider benefits of nature have been ignored, which has led to bad decisions that have reduced people’s wellbeing and contributed to climate and nature crises.
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'Broken' capitalist food system drives soaring global hunger: Oxfam
Jul 11, 2022 14:24Around 1 in 10 people went hungry last year in a world losing ground on its collective goal of ending all forms of hunger, a report released recently by United Nations agencies revealed, prompting sharp censure from a leading charity.
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UN chief says ‘perfect storm’ of crises is widening global inequality
Jul 06, 2022 09:09UN Secretary General António Guterres says growing north and south divide is ‘morally unacceptable’ and dangerous.
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UN weather agency sounds alarm on extreme events in Antarctica
Apr 06, 2022 16:34Scientists with the United Nations weather agency have expressed fresh concern over the climate crisis following recent extreme events in Antarctica—an area they say should not be taken "for granted."
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Pay attention: Yemen starves
Mar 20, 2022 20:56The World Food Program estimates that half of all Yemen’s children under 5, about 2.3 million kids, are at risk of acute malnutrition, with 400,000 at risk of dying if they don’t receive treatment, according to a spokesperson for the organization who asked not to be named because even the U.N. fears the consequences of criticizing Saudi Arabia.
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Famine in Yemen could increase fivefold without immediate action, UN warns
Mar 20, 2022 00:05The IPC analysis expresses particular concern that 31,000 people in Yemen are currently facing extreme hunger levels — what it classifies as a phase 5 catastrophe — and that the figure is projected to rise to 161,000 over the second half of the year.
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UN expert warns millions suffering in deadly pollution ‘sacrifice zones’
Mar 12, 2022 17:56In a report presented to the UN Human Rights Council recently, David Boyd, the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment says pollution contributed to twice as many premature deaths as COVID-19 in the first 18 months of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Following “unjustifiable” UAE bombing of Saada prison, US & UN condemn Yemeni retaliation
Feb 01, 2022 17:46Despite the Saudi-led US- backed Coalition’s increased attacks against Yemen, Yemen`s retaliatory attacks were met with denunciation by Coalition allies, including the Biden administration and the UN Security Council. Even the Zionist regime proclaimed its support for the UAE.
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World mum on Saudi-UAE war crimes in Yemen
Jan 21, 2022 15:18Perhaps, peace in the UN jargon means the conquest of Yemen by Saudi Arabia and the UAE with their unending supply of state-of-the-art weapons from the US, Britain, and France; coupled with the total subjugation of the poor people of Yemen as the slaves of the West and even of the illegal Zionist entity.