UN reports ‘shocking’ rise in violations against children in conflict in 2023
“We are failing children,” … “I call on the international community to recommit to the universal consensus to protect children from armed conflict and I call on States to fulfill their primary responsibility to protect their populations and respect all norms and standards applicable in the conduct of armed conflict situations.”
Colombians Welcome Chiquita’s Guilty Verdict, But Thousands More Deserve Justice
In the case of the banana company, Kovalik believes this is just the beginning of legal actions as “there are many more cases out there waiting for Chiquita” given that the victims “number into the thousands.” According to Colombia Reports, the paramilitary group AUC “left as many as 4,900 victims in Colombia’s Caribbean region.” These cases, said Kovalik, will either go to trial or be settled.
US braces for ‘dangerous’ conditions as heatwave to hit midwest and north-east
Heat-related deaths have increased in the US in each of the last three years, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. There were 1,602 such deaths in 2021; 1,722 in 2022; and 2,302 in 2023.
Wildfires are raging in Nepal — climate change isn’t the only culprit
In 2021, when Tiwari first visited the community forests in Bhumlu rural municipality, central Nepal, she was awestruck looking at the lush green regenerated pine forests. However, upon revisiting Bhumlu the following year, she couldn’t grasp how drastically the landscape had changed. “The forest had been completely transformed into an awful, blackened ash-covered terrain,” Tiwari says.
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