#UN report

[dontforgetukraine]

From a UN report...

Since February 2022, the UN has recorded more than 32.1 thousand civilian casualties, including the dead and wounded, due to Russia's war and aggression in Ukraine.

"The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation was characterized by targeted attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, forced displacement, sexual violence and a high risk of psychological harm."

More than 6.5 million people have fled the country as refugees, and another 3.5 million have become internally displaced. 

92% of civilian deaths were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide area of impact, and 4% were caused by mines and explosive devices.

"The direct damage to civilian infrastructure over the past two years as of February 2024 amounted to up to 138 billion euros. Residential buildings have suffered the most."

1,742 confirmed attacks on medical facilities, resulting in 136 deaths and 311 injuries.

There are ocumented cases of sexual violence committed by the Russian military against people of all genders from 3 to 70 years old.

Unexploded ordnance from the Russian army has made Ukraine one of the most contaminated countries in the world, putting 6.37 million people at risk for injury and death.

128 farmers have been killed by mines since February 2022.

Source: How many civilians have died in Ukraine – UN

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[thoughtlessarse]

Women in Poland face severe human rights violations due to the country’s restrictive abortion law, found the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in an inquiry report published yesterday. The committee noted that the situation of women in Poland was further aggravated after a constitutional court ruling rendered abortion in cases of significant foetal deformities illegal. “The situation in Poland constitutes gender-based violence against women and may rise to the level of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,” said CEDAW deputy chair Genoveva Tisheva, as quoted in a statement from the committee. The committee’s report follows a three-year inquiry into allegations made by NGOs focused on women’s rights that “Poland has committed grave and systematic violations of rights” by restricting access to abortion.

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[blue-village]

Early on June 15, 2023, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked a makeshift medical clinic in West Darfur’s capital, El Geneina, where 25 injured patients were seeking treatment. Ali, who had been shot in the leg during a previous attack, described what happened: “They started shooting at us and killed everyone except me and a woman [who was also wounded]. They shot me in the right arm. I slumped over, pretending I was dead.”

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From late April until early November 2023, the RSF and allied militias conducted a systematic campaign to remove, including by killing, ethnic Massalit residents, such as Ali, from El Geneina, home to an ethnically mixed population of around 540,000 people. Violence began on April 24 and continued in phases over seven weeks, peaking in mid-June, with another surge in November. The massacre that Ali survived was just one in a deluge of atrocities that the RSF and allied militias, predominantly from Darfuri Arab groups, have carried out in El Geneina and West Darfur in general since the outbreak of the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF on April 15, 2023.

The events are among the worst atrocities against civilians so far in the current conflict in Sudan. The total number of dead is unknown. Sudanese Red Crescent staff said that on June 13, they counted 2,000 bodies on the streets of El Geneina and then, overwhelmed by the numbers, stopped counting. Two days later, on June 15, a large-scale massacre took place. The UN panel of experts on the Sudan estimated, citing intelligence sources, that between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in El Geneina in 2023.

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During their campaign, RSF fighters and allied militias used derogatory racial slurs against Massalits and people from other non-Arab ethnic groups. They told them to leave, that the land was no longer theirs, and that it would be “cleaned” and become “the land of the Arabs.” Ahmad, 41, a Massalit man, recalled, in an interview with Human Rights Watch, forces telling fleeing civilians: “No Massalit people will live here!” and “No Nuba will live here!” and “No slaves will live here!”

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Many abuses carried out by the RSF and allied militias documented in this report constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. The targeting of Massalit people and other non-Arab communities with the apparent objective of at least having them permanently leave the region constitutes ethnic cleansing.

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The mass killings of ethnic Massalit civilians, and in particular the context in which these killings took place, also requires urgent action from all governments and international institutions to ensure investigation of whether the facts demonstrate a specific intent on the part of the RSF leadership and their allies to destroy in whole or in part the Massalit and other non-Arab ethnic communities in West Darfur, that is to commit genocide, and if so, to prevent its perpetration, and to hold those responsible for its planning and conduct accountable.

[agentfascinateur]

YES! Start in Toronto...

#I ❤️ Francesca Albanese

[because--palestine]

Anatomy of a Genocide

Another excellent monologue by Krystal Ball

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The Humanitarian Crisis and Economic Decline in Gaza Amid Ongoing Conflict

Impact of the Ongoing Conflict in Gaza According to a recent assessment from a UN-backed report, the ongoing conflict has reversed developmental progress in Gaza by as much as 69 years. This stark regression is compounded by rising poverty levels, which are projected to increase by an alarming 74.3% in 2024, pushing an additional 2.61 million individuals into poverty. The ramifications of the…

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Odious regime

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radical facts - short feminist facts

#systemic oppression

286 Years Until Equality

According to the newest UN report, at the current rate of progress, it may take another 286 years for women to have the same legal rights and protections as men.

The report estimates that it will take up to 286 years to close gaps in legal protection and remove discriminatory laws, 140 years for women to be represented equally in positions of power and leadership in the workplace, and at least 40 years to achieve equal representation in national parliaments. To eradicate child marriage by 2030, progress must be 17 times faster than progress of the last decade, with girls from the poorest rural households and in conflict-affected areas expected to suffer the most.

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More than half of Sudan's population is facing high levels of "acute food insecurity", a situation exacerbated by the country's devastating war, said a report cited by the United Nations on Thursday. Sudan has been gripped by war since April 2023, when fighting erupted between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. The conflict in the northeast African country of 48 million has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions and triggered one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. "Fourteen months into the conflict, Sudan is facing the worst levels of acute food insecurity" that the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, has recorded, the report said. The crisis would impact "approximately 25.6 million people," it said, including 755,000 in famine conditions and an additional 8.5 million facing "emergency" situations. It pointed to "a stark and rapid deterioration of the food security situation" compared with the previous figures published in December, with a 45 percent increase in people facing high levels of acute food insecurity. "The conflict has not only triggered mass displacement and disruption of supply routes... it has also severely limited access to essential humanitarian assistance, exacerbating an already dire situation," the IPC said. It further cited "highly dysfunctional health services, water contamination and poor sanitation and hygiene conditions". - Starvation as weapon - The IPC report comes a day after United Nations experts accused Burhan's Sudanese Armed Forces and Daglo's Rapid Support Forces of using starvation as a weapon of war. "Both the SAF and the RSF are using food as a weapon and starving civilians," said the experts, including the special rapporteur on the right to food. They also said foreign governments providing military support to both the army and the RSF were "complicit" in war crimes.

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Владимир Осечкин о докладе Комиссии ООН о пытках и о необходимости расши...

16:30 - "These torture conveyors pose a direct threat not only to Russians, not only for Ukrainians..." -Vladimir Osechkin

This is what I've been saying... overall how what russia is doing cannot spread. Because if you look at it, you see the evil of it especially what is done to people in occupied areas and prisoners of russia. It's a wholly evil and corrupt system and has to be fought. The West really has to see the evil of it and really face the truth of it. It isn't just "over there" -- if people don't care about Ukrainians or russians, there is also a possibility of it spreading further if it isn't stopped now. It is something that should not go one more step and should be beaten back.

When you look at what is done you can see the evil of it. If people believe in evil anymore. We are partly a victim of cultural relativism and very much susceptible to propaganda on social media... it is the loudest voices and most repeated and sometimes most ridiculous that often get believed at the expense of the truth.

Specifically-- if we look at what Mr Osechkin has shown on gulagu.net, we can see where the laboratory of this system was set up. A lot of the same patterns of horrific prison abuse in russia we also see of prisoners of war. They know what they're doing; it's systematic. At the same time it's part of a pattern of dehumanization-- russians are faced with dehumanizing circumstances, with abuse in prison and similar abuse in the army. Some of their humanity is stripped away and they're more prone to abusing others the way they were abused. And the sort of suppression of the soul that happens with pain and humiliation. So these are prime pawns for the game. Used for carrying out the brutality in Ukraine. Tools without conscience used for beating people up.

Russia is in the grip of a horrible system that's been developed and refined over 20 years, getting worse and worse until now we see the fruit of it in its worst form. A horrible dehumanizing system with 0 redeeming qualities, 0 to offer anyone just an inhuman machine with hardly any disguise at all-- the russian world designed by the regime can hardly pretend to offer anything just the thin veneer of orthodoxy (tainted by approval of killings) and "patriotism" (bloodthirst) with some soviet nostalgia thrown in while underneath is corruption, poverty, suffering, 0 actual justice, the security services ruling everything, police crushing normal people, Orwellian propaganda, smothering of any independent voices, men dying at the front for nothing..... and the worst of it the cruelty and torture to their own people and not only this but now causing suffering to people in Ukraine for the crime of wanting to be independent and free of this awful system.

[agentfascinateur]

Why does the Israeli Far Right still pretend to operate legitimately!?

The Israeli military has quietly handed over significant legal powers in the occupied West Bank to pro-settler civil servants working for the far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich. An order posted by the Israel Defense Forces on its website on 29 May transfers responsibility for dozens of bylaws at the Civil Administration – the Israeli body governing in the West Bank – from the military to officials led by Smotrich at the defence ministry. Smotrich and his allies have long seen control of the Civil Administration, or significant parts of it, as a means of extending Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank. Their ultimate goal is direct control by central government and its ministries. The transfer reduces the likelihood of legal checks on settlement expansion and development.

They've basically already hollowed out any legal substance to their administration so why bother!?

Israel = NOT a democracy.

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Water | Drink dirty Water | United Nations | UN Report |un water report | un report on water scarcity

Every fourth person in the world is forced to drink dirty water, many shocking things in the UN report According to the report, globally water use has been growing at a rate of about one percent per year in the last 40 years and ‘ population growth, It is likely to grow at the same rate by 2050 due to socio-economic development and changing consumption patterns. Image Source: PIXABAY…