The year in humanitarian news
A timeline of significant events in 2022. From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (and the global impacts) to Haiti’s spiralling gang violence...
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RECENT NEWS ON RUSSIAN GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE
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Creating a Shared Language of Genocide Prevention Across the Globe
A famine that’s not a famine: ‘Children are waiting to die’
Agencies say Somalia is ‘on the brink of famine’, but evidence suggests the extent of mass starvation is much worse Abdirahman’s mother...
NEW ANALYSIS – AFGHANISTAN TOPS LIST OF 7 COUNTRIES WHERE CHILDREN WERE MOST IN NEED IN 2022
Thenumber of children needing humanitarian assistance rose more than 20% this year to 149 million, with Afghanistan then the Democratic...
Haiti faces famine – but its troubles are rooted in a brutal colonial past
The Caribbean country has been blighted by colonial exploitation, natural disasters and violent gangs – now a food crisis looms. What can...
Ukraine remembers Stalin-era famine as Russia war rages
Ukraine accused the Kremlin on Saturday of reviving the "genocidal" tactics of Josef Stalin as Kyiv commemorated a Soviet-era famine that...
Ethiopian rivals agree on humanitarian access for war-ravaged Tigray
Region is in the grip of a severe crisis due to a lack of food and medicine after a two-year conflict Ethiopia’s government and Tigrayan...
Afghanistan: Parents sell children and kidneys to feed starving families
After the withdrawal of Western forces from Afghanistan last year, the Taliban regime took over but has not received international...
Taliban delegation travel to Norway for human rights talks
Oslo meeting with Afghan rulers will include allies and ‘not represent legitimisation or recognition’ A Taliban delegation is to hold...
Afghanistan: Taliban Takeover Worsens Rights Crisis
Broad Threats to Women, Media; Aid Loss Heightens Famine Risk The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan accelerated the country’s human rights...
Ethiopia’s Tigray Crisis Is a Genocide, Activists and Members of the Diaspora Say
This op-ed talks about the ethnic cleansing, mass rape, and forced famine underway in Tigray. YASUYOSHI CHIBA I had taken the power of...
Iraq in the News
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