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Members of the M23 Movement, the Leading Armed Group in Eastern DRC; Screenshot from the ARTE YouTube Channel In 2024, two major conflicts are at the heart of a significant portion of humanitarian missions deployed in Africa: The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the war in Sudan. In both countries, the number of victims has continued to rise: by the end of 2023, Sudan had seen over 7.3 million displaced persons. In the eastern DRC, the war has displaced more than 7.1 million people. Today, armed attacks from all sides persist, challenging all the efforts made for humanitarian ...
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Photo by Joakim Honkasalo on Unsplash The right-wing Finnish government has recently proposed a law restricting asylum-seekers from applying for refuge on the Finnish borders under the pretext of national security. As a group of human rights and migration researchers, we explain how this law violates Finland’s international obligations and human rights law. Last autumn, after witnessing an increase in the arrival of asylum seekers who lack the necessary travel and identity documents at Finland’s eastern border, the Finnish Government (a coalition between the National Coalition Party, the Finns...
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Greenpeace activists protest in front of the Angra dos Reis (RJ) nuclear power plants, denouncing the Brazilian government's decision to invest in building Angra 3 while neglecting the country's vast wind energy potential. Rio de Janeiro, 07/04/2009. Image via Flickr by Greenpeace/Alex Carvalho. CC BY-SA 2.0. This article was originally published on Groundviews, an award-winning citizen media website from Sri Lanka. An edited version is published here as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices. In 1971, a group of activists set sail from Canada in an old fishing boat to protest ...
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Amazigh women carry the heaters distributed by the Moroccan Biodiversity and Livelihoods Association (MBLA) to their campsite, where their heat will render the cold mountain nights more tolerable. Photo by Rowan Glass, 2023, used with permission. All images in this photo essay are courtesy of Rowan Glass, 2023, and are used with permission. In the Marrakesh-Safi region of south-central Morocco, where a catastrophic earthquake struck on September 8, last year, thousands of people in the heavily affected High Atlas Mountains remain homeless and vulnerable as they rebuild their lives amid the rui...
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Consequences of the shelling of the children's hospital and maternity hospital in Mariupol, March 9, 2022. (CC BY 4.0 DEED). Source https://armyinform.com.ua/2022/03/26/francziya-vymagatyme-vid-rf-znyaty-oblogu-mariupolya/Author armyinform.com.ua Nearly two years and thousands of sanctions later, Moscow’s war capacity remains intact, and Russia keeps on bombing Ukraine as much, if not more, as on that fateful morning of February 24, 2022, when the full-scale invasion began. The Kremlin continues its military operations and is launching hundreds of drones and missiles against Ukrainian cities a...
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