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Civilians help with rescues in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, in the floods that hit the state. Photo by Alex Rocha/PMPA, used with permission Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil, is going through the worst climate disaster in its history. From April 28 onward, a major part of its territory, about the size of the United Kingdom, has been submerged underwater. The heavy rains soon transformed into violent floods, impacting over 1.4 million people, with at least 100 people confirmed dead, according to reports published May 8. Entering its sixth day of flooding, the state capita...
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Displaced persons at the Darfur border in Sudan. Screenshot from theFrance24 YouTube Channel For the victims of Sudan’s civil war, a humanitarian crisis and human rights violations have become part of their everyday lives. In the Republic of Sudan, there is an ongoing civil war between two opposing military factions: the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (FSR) under General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemeti. This war stems from the country’s dark past and chaotic governance under former president Omar al-Bashir from 1989 to ...
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People in downtown Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul's capital, after the city was invaded by the Guaíba River's waters, this May 5, 2024. Photo by Gustavo Mansur/ Palácio Piratini, used under licenseCC BY-NC 2.0. On April 27, MetSul, a meteorology agency, posted on X (former Twitter) a warning about a cold front, heavy rain, gales, and hail, and risks of severe weather in parts of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state. This is the same state that endured three climate disasters in 2023 alone, with 80 people confirmed dead and many cities hit. The following day, the agency posted anothe...
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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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