(OCHA) – Today, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent was able to deliver humanitarian assistance provided by the UN to the hard-to-reach towns of Yalda, Babila and Beit Sahem in Rural Damascus. The delivery consisted of food, nutrition, medical supplies, hygiene kits and other emergency items for 35,000 people in need. Link
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(NRC) – Over 10,000 have arrived to displacement camps close to Ramadi, Anbar province, since the beginning of October according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), who provides emergency aid to these people. As the Iraqi Government announced military operations to retake the last stronghold of ISIS, the International Organization for Migration has recorded that almost […]
(CNN) – US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued a stern warning to South Sudan’s president on Wednesday, telling him “the hate and the violence that we are seeing has to stop,” or the United States will reconsider its financial support for the country. “I let him know the US is at a crossroads,” […]
(SAMS) – Hala al-Nufi is 2 years old. She weighs 4.10 kilograms (9 pounds). Since the age of seven months, Hala has struggled with health problems, according to her mother, Um Sayyah. Around that time, Um Sayyah was able to take her to daughter to Damascus to seek medical care through tunnels between East Ghouta and Damascus. […]
(HWR) – This submission relates to Articles 28 and 38 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and focuses on the protection of students, teachers, and schools during armed conflict. In June 2015, then foreign minister of Guatemala, Carlos Raul Morales, told the United Nations Security Council: “We must put an end to […]
(The Intercept) – When Abu Fazel listens to news of the civil war still raging in Syria, he thinks about how he very nearly ended up a foot soldier there. But Abu Fazel isn’t Syrian, nor was he ever a would-be Islamic State fighter. He’s an 18-year-old Afghan refugee, living in the small city of […]
(Philippine Daily Inquirer) – Now that the Marawi conflict has been declared “over,” people’s minds are turning toward rehabilitation and rebuilding. And oh boy, are those needed in the once-beautiful city of Marawi! Link
(B’Tselem) – Palestinian teenagers from East Jerusalem are pulled out of bed in the middle of the night, unnecessarily handcuffed and then made to spend a long time waiting for their interrogation to begin. Only then, when they are tired and broken, are they taken in for lengthy interrogation sessions, without being given the opportunity […]
(The New York Times) – The girls didn’t want to kill anyone. They walked in silence for a while, the weight of the explosives around their waists pulling down on them as they fingered the detonators and tried to think of a way out. Link
(IRIN) – “There are no opportunities for youth here,” said Yar, a 20-year-old South Sudanese refugee from Jonglei, stuck in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement in northern Uganda. Her words were echoed in conversations I had throughout my two-week visit to the settlements. Since war broke out in South Sudan in December 2013, approximately four million […]
