#UN report

[unbfacts]

More people globally have access to mobile phones than to safely managed toilets, with approximately 4.5 billion people lacking proper sanitation facilities.

[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

[eretzyisrael]

[onbreakreadlastpost]

Iranian court sentences pop star Tataloo to death for blasphemy

#FreeAmirHosseinMaghsoudloo

#FreeTataloo

#AbolishTheDeathPenalty

Iran reportedly executed at least 901 people in 2024, UN says

STOP THE EXECUTIONS IN IRAN. STOP THE DEATH PENALTY WORLDWIDE. SPREAD THE WORD.

[tofueatingwokerati]

Forced Migration: ESA-UC

ESA-UC forced migration (or managed as they to call it) is not a migration, it is a new claim being dressed as migration with the same parameters of a new claim, i.e. paid in arrears with a period of weeks with no income.

The ‘reasonable adjustment’ is advance payment, the same as able bodied claimants making a new claim are offered with the snag of leaving the claimant in debt with forced deductions and reduced income for up to 24months. 

Out of the five weeks of no income the government are paying ESA two weeks ‘overpayment’, still leaving very vulnerable people with zero income for three out of the five weeks.

Disabled people are at a material disadvantage burdened with the disability price tag that an able bodied person doesn’t have to contend with.

This is a one size that has been tinkered with to give the appearance of reasonable adjustments. 

Additionally, an able bodied person has the capacity for work and plug the gap of lost income and remain on some form of UC, where as people being migrated from ESA-IR Support Group have no capacity to work it’s why they’re in the support group.

Disabled have no independent means and at a material disadvantage on disability grounds. 

The court already stipulated there should be no loss of income to the claimant, clearly there is. Even with transitional payment protection there is a semi-permanent cap that prevents any inflation increase in award income that every other benefit will receive. 

This is because the UC equivalent award doesn’t have the ESA component of severe disability premium, this no longer exists and at a loss of approx. £5000 a year. Until UC catch’s up with ESA, people migrating with transitional payment protection will have a fixed income for years despite the yearly increase in cost of living.

No matter which way you look at this disabled people are the butt of punishing policy for being disabled and unable to work. 

It is discriminatory and I believe illegal before you get to there being no risk or impact assessment. 

Labour were in chorus with the UN report over the disproportionate poverty inflicted on the disabled by government policy, when they were in opposition. Yet now they’re carrying on the Tory torch of punitive policy aimed at doing the most harm to the most vulnerable in contravention of the very UN report they said they agreed with. 

While in opposition Labour promised to scrap UC and are now back peddling on that. Instead they are looking to treat disabled people as having more capacity to work than they do by forcing them into the same benefit system as able bodied. It is discriminatory every which way and places disabled people at risk of injury or death.

It is concisions cruelty to save a few quid instead of making tax evaders pay their share.

[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

[girlactionfigure]

melissaschapman

Breaking: @unitednations Sinks to New Low in Report on Children in Conflict Zones An upcoming UN report on children in conflict zones claims that the Bibas boys—who aren't even directly named—“died in captivity,” and makes no mention whatsoever of the 12 Druze children murdered by Hezbollah while playing soccer. The report also faults Israel for injuries to children caused by falling rocket interception debris during Iran’s missile attacks—without once acknowledging that Iran launched the assault in the first place

[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.

[bloghrexach]

🇵🇸 … going to research it!!

“By analysing the patterns of violence and Israel’s policies in its onslaught on Gaza, this report concludes that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met.

One of the key findings is that Israel's executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally distorted jus in bello principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.” … 🇵🇸

@hrexach

[turtleduckmocha]

getting extreme whiplash going through every social media site as my country becomes a military junta on the same day as the trigun stargaze announcement. anyway be nice to your indonesian friends please we're going through it

english news coverage:

The Jakarta Post article

Al-Jazeera article

BBC article

[usagifuyusummer]

More of my de-stressing pen sketches. I'll get back to studying and writing reports after this.... Just trying to figure out how an older Timmy looks (probably very EMO after 13 years old, then back to pastel pink [normal] after 16 lol)

[incorrectgundamwingquotes]

[on a mission]

OZ Soldiers: Come out!

Duo: I’m bisexual and 03 is gay!

Trowa: Damn bitch?!

OZ Soldiers: No, not like that—