The Rohingya: Tracking the history of today’s refugee crisis
Oct 9, 2024 · In the years since the exodus, the plight of the fewer than 500,000 Rohingya who remain in Myanmar has only become more dire, thanks largely to the February 2021 military coup and an escalating civil war involving several armed ethnic resistance groups.Today, the Rohingya, like millions of other civilians in Myanmar, are subjected to deadly air raids, forced conscription, and alleged aid ...
The New Humanitarian | Somalia’s political crisis explained
May 20, 2021 · The African Union has 22,000 troops in Somalia under a peace enforcement mission known as AMISOM, defending the country against al-Shabab. It has condemned the extension of Farmajo’s term as “undermining [the] unity and stability of the country”, and called on AMISOM to “monitor” the deployment of Somali security forces while urging it to remain neutral.
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Filipino farmers’ profits disappear, and hunger looms
Jul 27, 2023 · In addition, 74% of Filipinos could not afford a healthy diet in 2021, data from the latest UN report on global food insecurity showed. People like Jessica Bonus, 50, and Julie Gutierrez, 40, fall into both categories. Bonus, a factory worker, has earned the same daily wage of less than 429 pesos ($8) for two decades.
The 25 crises that shaped history - The New Humanitarian
From war and genocide, to disaster and disease; from insect invasion and terrorism, to election violence and economic collapse: humanitarian crises have come in all forms over the last quarter century. Some have been confined within state borders; others have destabilised entire regions.
The Darién Gap migration crisis in six graphs, and one map
Jan 15, 2024 · A number of factors caused the dramatic 2023 uptick in Darién Gap crossings. Changes in migration policies across the region have made it more difficult for those trying to reach the United States from South America to cross borders legally. Several countries imposed visa restrictions on Venezuelans and Haitians, even as countries such as Chile and Peru militarised their borders, pushing ...
People in Gaza remember a time before the war, and plead for it …
Jan 25, 2024 · On 23 January, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said: “The entire population of Gaza is enduring destruction at a scale and speed without parallel in recent history.”. This is what that means for five people in Gaza. Their responses have been edited for length and clarity. Mohamed Soulaimane/TNH.
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‘We can't find support’: Three women’s stories of repeated rape by ...
Jun 27, 2023 · Healthcare - Shuttered clinics: Several clinics and hospitals have suspended some of their services or closed due to gang violence; others are full because of the cholera outbreak. Staff shortages are chronic. Although most of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospitals are now open, some are not operating at full capacity. The MSF clinic in Cité Soleil, one of the neighbourhoods most impacted ...
Ethnic cleansing isn’t a crime. Should it be?
Jan 24, 2024 · International criminal law recognises four types of core crimes: war crimes; crimes against humanity; genocide; and the crime of aggression. The atrocities and abuses the term ethnic cleansing is used to describe can qualify as one of the core crimes, but not ethnic cleansing itself. “We have a legal loophole with this term,” Pégorier ...