ICYMI: Uncertainty for refugees in . "With ongoing cuts to government funding worldwide, the most vulnerable populations have been caught in the political crossfire. and people, who rely on aid to survive, are facing the very real threat of hunger and disease. People like the 108,000 refugees who call the refugee-led camps on the - border home." Act for Peace, April 2025
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The spirit of the G8 make poverty history summit of 2005 seems long gone Heather Stewart
The UN is our best defence against a third world war. As Trump wields the axe, who will fight to save it Simon Tisdall
The UN is our best defence against a third world war. As Trump wields the axe, who will fight to save it Simon Tisdall
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80% of lower-income families in Japan say financial situation getting worse
Around 80% of lower-income families with children in Japan said that their household finances are much worse than last year, a survey by nonprofit group Kidsdoor has shown. A Kidsdoor official has called on the government to cre
80% of lower-income families in Japan say financial situation getting worse Around 80% of lower-income families with children in Japan said that their household finances are much worse than last year, a survey by nonprofit group Kidsdoor has shown. A Kidsdoor official has called on the government to create a system in which people can raise children with a sense
People are dying just trying to get food
The World Food Programmes deputy executive director and chief operating officer, Carl Skau, visited Gaza City.
In a statement later, he said the following about his visit:
This is my fourth visit to Gaza since the start of the conflict. The situation is the worst Ive ever seen. Its hard to find words to describe the level of desperation I have witnessed. People are dying just trying to get food.
USAID marks last day with Obama, Bush criticizing Trumps gutting of agency
Monday was the last day as an independent agency for the six-decade-old humanitarian and development organization, which has been ordered absorbed into the U.S. State Department.
Aid distribution in Gaza used as a tool of genocide
Amid the near-daily killing of aid seekers around the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) aid sites, academic Pietro Stefanini says the US and Israel are deliberately weaponising humanitarian assistance to serve military and strategic objectives, bypassing established aid channels.
There is this weaponisation of aid distribution as a tool of genocide, which is done specifically to advance strategic war aims.
Erdogan urges Trump to stop violence at Gaza aid hubs
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he has asked US President Donald Trump to intervene to stop the Gaza aid centre shootings, which the UN says have killed more than 600 people.
There are people who are being killed in food queues. You need to intervene here so that these people are not killed, Erdogan said when he met Trump at a NATO summit in late June.
A group of Green Party members of the German Bundestag have formally requested increased financial support for Ukraine in a letter addressed...
Aid distribution may be a sticking point in ceasefire talks
Namely, that Hamas wants to ensure that aid is allowed in through international organisations and the Palestinian Red Crescent, and that aid distribution would resume in the hundreds of distribution points, rather than in the death traps of four distribution centres for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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USAID Formally Shut Down Days After Scientists Warn Closure Will Kill 2.4 Million People Every Year
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Whomever got a bag of flour, got shot in the head
The bags of flour were all over the ground. Covered in blood.
There were so many bodies on the ground. After that, a quadcopter came to where we were hiding under the rubble of one of the houses. The quadcopter told us to put our hands up and come out. It said you are not allowed to take flour. Keep walking and dont pick up any of the dead or wounded from the ground."
Around 80% of lower-income families with children in Japan said that their household finances are much worse than last year, a survey by nonprofit group Kidsdoor has shown.
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UNAids chief shaken and disgusted by US cuts that will mean millions more deaths
After a nearly seven-week pause, World Central Kitchen resumed its operations in Gaza, serving 10,000 meals on its first day from its first food shipment in 12 weeks.
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Patients often get lined up and brought into these very compressed spaces, and then they get fired on, with spreadshot fire where someone pulls a trigger on a machine gun. They have artillery fire on them. It is deliberate. There is no doubt. I did not need to see the Associated Press video to know that it is deliberate. Patients tell me, the injury patterns tell me, the ways in which people are killed, the massive numbers in which they are killed, tell me.
Doctor in Gaza says no doubt attacks on aid seekers are deliberate
"Patients can sometimes be sitting there, doing nothing, waiting for the site to open, and then they get shot in the head. Ive seen that numerous times,
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Tarek Loubani, an emergency physician
US contractors say colleagues fired live ammunition at Palestinians seeking food
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Mads Gilbert, an emergency medicine doctor who has spent extensive time working in Gaza, says the Gaza Health Foundation (GHF) distribution centres are part of the Israeli occupation forces and the Israeli government plan to ethnically cleanse and to fulfil their goal of genocide in Gaza.
The distribution organisation is aimed at using food as bait to attract starving people, to terrorise them and to kill them. The shooting of people in food lines is a war crime.
At least 33 aid seekers are among 73 Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn, with witnesses describing horror scenes after unprovoked gunfire at the controversial Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid sites.
There was no warning.
Emergency services and medical teams were not able to access the area due to the intensity of the gunfire.
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And yes, you have colleagues. If you work in the development or humanitarian aid sector, you have programme participants who are intersex.
In an environment, intersex persons may need specific assistance or interventions which range across sectors, whether protection or health, education or shelter. Your teams need to have accurate, informed information to ensure that you are meeting these needs effectively, and with understanding and
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is an American organization, registered in Delaware & established in February to distribute during the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Since the GHF sites began operating more than a month ago, say troops open fire almost every day toward crowds on roads heading to the distribution points, through zones. Several hundred people have been killed & hundreds more wounded, acc/to Gazas Health Ministry & witnesses.
For 2 1/2 months before GHFs opening in May, blocked all food, water & medicine from entering , claiming was stealing the being transported under a preexisting system coordinated by the . It now wants to replace that system. The UN says its Gaza aid operations do not involve armed guards.
There are innocent people being hurt. Badly. Needlessly, the contractor said.
He said American staff on the sites monitor those coming to seek food & document anyone considered suspicious. He said they share such information with the .
Videos provided by one of the contractors & taken at the sites show hundreds of crowded between metal gates, jostling for amid the sound of , stun & the sting of .
US contractors *guarding* distribution sites in are using & stun as hungry scramble for food, acc/to accounts & videos obtained by The AP.
2 contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers internal ops, said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous & irresponsible practices.
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A murderous freefall
Sam Rose, director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza, says the situation in the enclave and the killings near aid distribution hubs are getting immeasurably worse and show no sign of ameliorating.