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DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — The day they came to take her children, the young mother bundled them up against the cold. She asked her nearly 6-year-old son to take care of his younger sister. “Don’t let anyone hit her,” she told the boy. “OK, Mama,” she remembers him replying. Much else was left unsaid. Then, as the car carried her little boy and girl away to a life without her in a children’s home in Syria, a country she knew she would soon leave, the woman wept.

She became a mother after Islamic State captivity. A decade on, Yazidi community shuns her children

The New Humanitarian

It was one in the morning on a spring night in 2019 when Sanaa Alneamat saw a photo of her missing sister online. She was wearing a headscarf – unlike when the Yazidi teenager was last seen as she was abducted by militants from the so-called Islamic State – and she was older, but Alneamat immediately recognised a birthmark on her sister’s face, and her eyes.

‘It’s on our shoulders’: Ten years after Yazidi genocide, survivors refuse to give up on the missing

The daughter of Cameroon's president has said she hopes that her coming out as a lesbian can help change the law banning same-sex relations in her country. Brenda Biya told the Le Parisien newspaper that there were many people in her situation and she hoped to inspire them. The 27-year-old...

President's daughter hopes coming out will change anti-gay laws

The Guardian

Human Rights Watch accuses RSF militia of ‘countless’ cases of rape and torture in Khartoum in 15-month civil war

Girls as young as nine gang-raped by paramilitaries in Sudan – report

Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, Afghanistan has once again come under scrutiny for consistent allegations of human rights violations perpetrated mainly by the group. At the same time, given that Afghanistan was completely dependent on foreign assistance before 2021, aid cutbacks, sanctions, and banking restrictions imposed by...

How to engage with the Taliban, if you have to

Human Rights Watch says ill-treatment of some minors arbitrarily held in gang crackdown amounts to torture

Thousands of children swept up in El Salvador mass arrests, rights body says

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

When the Israeli military issued evacuation orders on 13 October last year, telling 1.1 million Palestinians in the north of the Gaza Strip to head south, Mahmoud Shalabi decided he wasn’t going to leave. “I would rather die in my home than in a tent,” Shalabi told The New...

What is life like in northern Gaza?

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The Independent

Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s prime minister of 15 years, has fled the country after protesters demanding that she step down stormed her residence on Monday.Ms Hasina, 76, reportedly handed over the country’s reins to the military before flying out in a helicopter to India, her strongest ally, bringing to an ignominious end her iron-fisted rule.Bangladesh, a country of 160 million people, plunged into turmoil in late June when Ms Hasina’s government launched a crackdown on mainly student protesters demanding the rollback of a contentious quota system for government jobs. The crackdown saw dozens of protesters killed, many more injured and thousands...

Sheikh Hasina: The woman who ruled Bangladesh with an iron fist for 15 years

Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe. Netanyahu visits DC, as Palestinians pushed out of 83% of Gaza. All eyes this week have been on events outside of the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the US Congress on 24 July, giving a factually dubious speech that downplayed and misrepresented the staggering humanitarian crisis caused by Israel’s now nearly 10-month-long war. US Vice President Kamala Harris also gave her first comments about the war as the likely Democratic Party nominee in November presidential elections after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race. Harris vowed her “unwavering commitment” to Israel’s security while also calling on Netanyahu’s government to reach a ceasefire deal with Hamas. Ceasefire talks are ongoing, but Netanyahu has so far resisted global pressure to strike a deal to end the war. Instead, he has laid out a vision for indefinite, lower-intensity fighting against Hamas until Israel achieves “total victory” – something many experts say is not possible. On the ground in Gaza, Israel issued a fresh round of evacuation orders for parts of the southern city of Khan Younis – including parts of the Israeli-designated ‘humanitarian zone’ in al-Mawasi. More than 150,000 people have since fled those areas, according to the UN. The Israeli military has been heavily bombarding and redeploying ground troops in parts of Gaza it previously withdrew from, saying that it is pursuing Hamas militants that have regrouped. According to the UN, nearly 83% of Gaza’s territory is now under evacuation orders or has been designated as ‘no-go zones’ by the Israeli military. Around 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.1 million Palestinians has been forcibly displaced – many multiple times – and the recorded death toll is nearing 40,000, according to health authorities in the enclave.

Venezuela’s election, Sudan peace talks, and Netanyahu’s DC visit: The Cheat Sheet

The US has blocked a British judge from holding a hearing on the British-held island of Diego Garcia to determine whether a group of asylum seekers is being unlawfully detained there. Around 60 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers have been confined to a fenced camp the size of a football...

US blocks Diego Garcia asylum seekers detention hearing

An operation to rescue 93 asylum seekers and migrants onboard a wooden fishing boat off the coast of Libya took a dangerous turn on 9 July. As workers from the search and rescue NGO SOS Méditerranée were evacuating people from the vessel, two dinghies carrying armed, masked men arrived on the scene. Two of the men boarded the fishing boat, prompting the remaining asylum seekers and migrants onboard to jump into the sea.

Armed men disrupt Mediterranean migration boat rescues

The world is woefully off track when it comes to eliminating hunger and malnutrition, with one in 11 people going hungry in 2023 – a level that has remained unchanged for three consecutive years – and more than one in four slashing the quantity and quality of the food they consume or skipping meals, data from a UN flagship report shows.

Climate, conflict, and debt keep hunger and malnutrition stubbornly high globally

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered a rhetorically forceful but factually dubious defence of Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip in a speech in front of the US Congress on 24 July. Prior to the speech, family members of the estimated 120 Israeli and foreign hostages still held by...

Netanyahu US Congress address downplays, misrepresents Gaza’s humanitarian crisis

At the end of this year, the last UN peacekeepers are scheduled to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo after two difficult decades, a withdrawal that reflects broader changes underway to the international security system. The peacekeeping mission – known by its French acronym, MONUSCO – has been the...

The changing face of peacekeeping: What’s gone wrong with the UN?

The Sudanese army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have inflicted “horrendous violence” on people across Sudan, according to a new report by the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The report draws on medical and operational data, highling patterns of violence observed by...

MSF report flags ‘horrendous’ Sudan violence

The nexus isn’t a myth. The response to the refugee crisis in eastern Chad is a rare example of a joined-up approach to humanitarian and development challenges. Since war broke out in Sudan last April, more than 750,000 refugees and migrant returnees have fled to eastern Chad. They joined more than 400,000 people still displaced in Chad since the Darfur genocide of the 2000s.

Yes, the nexus is real. But it needs a radical overhaul

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L.A. TACO has identified the police officer seen in a viral video sucker-punching a detained man named Alexander Mitchell in Watts over the weekend as Los Angeles Police Department Officer (LAPD) Joshua Sportiello.

LAPD Officer Identified After Punching Detained Man In Face In Watts On Video

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10 years into genocide, Yazidi survivors continue to demand their rights

This week marks 10 years since the start of the Yazidi genocide, perpetrated by the so-called Islamic State (IS). It has been a full decade since...

10 years into genocide, Yazidi survivors continue to demand their rights

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