MIL-OSI NGOs: A timeline of crisis and conflict in Yemen Since the war in Yemen escalated in March 2015, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has significantly expanded activities there. We have treated some 110,000 patients for cholera, … Story : Dec 7 18
Source: Doctors Without Borders – Since the war in Yemen escalated in March 2015, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has significantly expanded activities there. We have treated some 110,000 patients for cholera, delivered nearly 60,000 babies, and provided medical care to over 800,000 emergency room patients. This timeline shows how years of conflict have decimated the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Humanitarian assistance continues to prevent a massive human catastrophe in Yemen but it is not enough
Source: UNICEF – As many as 20 million Yemenis are food insecure in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Already, 15.9 million people wake up hungry, according to the latest Integrated food security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis, which is released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN Children’s Fund […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Refugee and migrant children and youth report severe deprivations while on the move – UNICEF
Source: UNICEF – GENEVA/MARRAKECH, 7 December 2018 – Two-thirds of respondents in a UNICEF poll of nearly 4,000 refugees and migrants – aged 14 to 24 – revealed that they were forced to leave their countries, while 44 per cent did so alone. ‘A Right to be Heard: Listening to children and young people on […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Oceana celebrates new leadership and new headquarters
Source: Oceania Global – On Tuesday, Oceana’s international Board of Directors, Executive Committee, staff, and supporters joined together to celebrate Oceana’s new board leadership and new global headquarters in Washington, DC. Oceana announced that Valarie Van Cleave, formerly the organization’s Vice-Chair and a long-time board member, will be the organization’s new Chair and that Ted […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Polish authorities stepping up harassment of independent media
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Adam Glapiński, the president of the National Bank of Poland, and Senator Grzegorz Bierecki, a member of the ultra-conservative ruling Law and Justice party, threatened to sue five journalists with the independent newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza last week if they did not remove seven allegedly defamatory articles from the newspaper’s website. […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: After long jail term, Moroccan journalist hit by heavy damages award
Source: Reporters Without Borders – The publisher of the Arabic-language daily Akhbar al-Youm, Bouachrine was originally ordered to pay 450,000 dirhams (45,000 euros) in damages for claiming that the agriculture and economy ministers changed an article in the 2016 finance law for their own personal benefit. Yesterday’s ruling tripled the amount. The ministers filed the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Myanmar: ‘Appalling’ sentencing of anti-war protesters must be overturned
Source: Amnesty International – The guilty verdicts handed to three activists today for their role in a peaceful protest in Myanmar must be overturned, Amnesty International has said. A court sentenced Lum Zawng, Nang Pu and Zau Jet to six months imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 MMK (£250) each. On 3 September, the three peaceful activists […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: South Sudan: children executed in ‘disturbing’ escalation of death penalty – new report
Source: Amnesty International – More executions in 2018 than any year since independence 342 people currently on death row – including a child and a breast-feeding mother ‘It is extremely disturbing that the world’s youngest nation has embraced this outdated, inhuman practice’ – Joan Nyanyuki South Sudan has carried out more executions this year than […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Thailand: Military government’s clampdown on human rights must end before elections
Source: Amnesty International – The Thai authorities must drop all arbitrary restrictions on human rights and peaceful political activities before elections in February, Amnesty International said today, ahead of a crucial meeting between the ruling military government and political parties. Thailand’s military government has provisionally scheduled general elections for 24 February. If held, these would […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Aquarius forced to terminate operations as Europe condemns people to drown
Source: Médecins Sans Frontières – Over the past two months, with people continuing to flee by sea along the world’s deadliest migration route, the Aquarius has remained in port, unable to carry out its humanitarian work. This is the result of a sustained campaign, spearheaded by the Italian government and backed by other European states, […]
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