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FAO targets 3 million people for emergency assistance as looming drought threatens lives in Ethiopia

June 26, 2019

Following the below-average Belg rainfall in February to May 2019 and the impact of consecutive droughts in the previous years, as well as conflict-induced internal displacements, nearly 9 million people need humanitarian and livelihood assistance in Ethiopia. The number of affected people is

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Thousands fleeing new Congo violence, Uganda refugee facilities dangerously stretched

June 26, 2019

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Around 7,500 Congolese refugees have arrived in Uganda since the start of June, placing strain on already badly overstretched facilities. Renewed clashes between opposing Hema and Lendu groups in

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Libya: Detained refugees and asylum-seekers die from suspected tuberculosis and other diseases

June 21, 2019

PARIS/NEW YORK, June 21, 2019—Conditions in two detention centers in Libya are medically catastrophic and consistent with reports that at least 22 people have died since September from suspected tuberculosisand other diseases, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today, after gaining access to the

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Hong Kong: ‘Unlawful’ police violence used against protesters – new video analysis

June 21, 2019

Hong Kong police must end the unlawful use of force against peaceful protesters, Amnesty International said today, as it published details of new video analysis showing numerous instances of excessive use of force by law-enforcement officials on 12 June. Amnesty experts in policing and digital verification examined footage of 14 incidents filmed during last weeks protest,

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Iranian Embassy, London: activists to show solidarity with hunger-striking Richard Ratcliffe

June 21, 2019

Mr Ratcliffes hunger strike in front of the embassy set to enter its eighth day Those showing solidarity with Richard and his wife will take part in a stone-painting for Nazanin event (12-2pm) Amnesty International campaigners will be joining Richard Ratcliffe outside the Iranian Embassy in London tomorrow (Saturday 22 June, 12-2pm) to show solidarity with him as his

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List of Arabic Media Outlets

June 19, 2019

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Fact Finding Mission to Libya – Diaries by Sameh Habeeb

June 18, 2019

The ongoing instability in Libya and the complicated political situation since 2011 continue to produce security and economic repercussions across the Mediterranean particularly to Southern European countries. The complexity of the situation makeσ it almost impossible to soundly diagnose and understand the “politics of division” dominatιng the east and western regions of

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Domestic Abuse: MPs urge Government to introduce measures so migrant women access adequate protection

June 17, 2019

A group of cross-party MPs – including Diane Abbot, Jess Phillips, Nicky Morgan, Anna Soubry, Caroline Lucas, Dawn Butler and Harriet Harman – have written a letter to the Home Secretary Sajid Javid raising concerns that the current draft of the Domestic Abuse Bill “will fail to protect migrant women”. In the letter, the MPs say that migrant women “find it virtually

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s hunger strike is ‘heartbreaking situation’

June 17, 2019

Amnesty supporters to visit Richard Ratcliffe at his parallel hunger strike protest outside Iranian Embassy in London Its shocking that its come to this – Kate Allen Responding to news that the jailed UK charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has started a hunger strike in protest at her continued imprisonment in Iran – while her husband Richard Ratcliffe has also gone

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“In Limbo” – Poor identification of Missing Leaves Bereaved Families of Mediterranean Migrants

June 15, 2019

Berlin – A new briefing from IOMs Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) shows that thousands of people lost in the Central Mediterranean crossing have not been identified. IOMs Missing Migrants Project database has recorded over 15,000 fatalities in the Central Mediterranean route between North Africa and Italy since 2014. Yet remains of fewer than 5,000 of those