A coalition of NGOs has urgently appealed to the #UN Security Council to enforce the International Court of Justice's orders regarding Israel's offensive in Rafah, Gaza.
Oxfam’s staff in Gaza are describing piles of human waste and rivers of sewage in the streets. They said people are also drinking dirty water while children are being bitten by insects swarming around the sewage. All of this makes conditions ripe for the outbreak of epidemics, including Hepatitis A and cholera, the charity warned.
People in northern Gaza are forced to survive on 245 calories a day
“Israel is making deliberate choices to starve civilians. Imagine what it is like, not only to be trying to survive on 245 calories day in, day out, but also having to watch your children or elderly relatives do the same. All whilst displaced … and under the constant threat of drones and bombs.”
Amitabh Behar, Oxfam International executive director
[Politis] - #« Le droit à une eau saine est directement menacé par des multinationales ».
À l’occasion de la journée mondiale de l’eau, Quentin Ghesquiere, co-auteur du rapport « La Soif du profit » d’#OXFAM France revient sur les techniques d’accaparement de l’eau par les multinationales, aidées par les États. Bilan : les #DroitsHumains dans le monde sont menacés.
The #AngloSaxon capitalist model ruined earth for humanity and many other species. #BigOil has been its undertaker, b/c #BigOilKnew.
If capitalism hadn't made the #GreenRevolution possible, human society would already have reached the #overshoot (1) point at the end of the last century:
In 1968, the #biologists Paul and Anne #Ehrlich wrote the book The #PopulationBomb"...
If you go through my thread, you will see that #WaruWaru has been used in the #Andean Highlands for thousands of years, #Oxfam is promoting projects in #SouthAmerica, and #Agrivoltaics has been around for decades.
It is all there. It is simply not being used enough.
#IsraelUsaHamasWar / Humanitarian agencies and human rights organizations issue urgent joint statement on Rafah
Humanitarian agencies and human rights organizations have issued an urgent joint statement warning of "catastrophic" consequences if Israel launches a ground offensive in Rafah, Gaza. They also criticize the silence and material support for Israel's operations by powerful nations.
The statement was signed by CEOs of #Oxfam, #Amnesty International, #ActionAid, War Child, Danish Refugee Council, and Handicap International.
The statement says over 1.5 million people are sheltering in #Rafah as a last resort, with over half a million of them children. A ground offensive would kill thousands more civilians.
They accuse #Israel of forcibly displacing people to Rafah and then planning to attack it, as well as collectively punishing civilians by denying aid.
The statement also refers to a recent #ICJ ruling ordering Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza and allow humanitarian aid, which has not happened. It calls for an immediate ceasefire, release of detainees, and full humanitarian access to Gaza.
The agencies say the offensive has made it virtually impossible to deliver humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Families still reeling from the aftermath of a two-year conflict in Tigray are now resorting to increasingly desperate measures to survive. The conflict and erratic rainfall have further exacerbated the planting season which threatens to plunge the region into deeper humanitarian catastrophe if nothing is done, warns Oxfam....
#Israel has said it has informed the families of 31 people held in the territory since 7 October that their relatives are dead. The news came as the Qatari prime minister said #Hamas had given a “generally positive” response to proposals for a deal trading a break in the fighting and release of #Palestinian prisoners for the return of more #hostages.
“Let’s be very clear. This is tragic, but it is not an anomaly,” #ScottPaul, of the humanitarian group #Oxfam, “The killing of aid workers in #Gaza has been systemic.”
"The world’s richest 1% own 43% of global financial assets, and the wealth of the top five #billionaires has doubled since 2020, while 60% of humanity – nearly 5 billion people – collectively got poorer, according to a report by #Oxfam, a leading international humanitarian organization.
Some inside info: Oxfam releases the Inequality Report every year to coincide with the first day of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
It is a deliberate strategy to show the stark contrast between discourse of the supposed benefits for all of trickle-down economic 'growth', and the reality of monopolies, oligopolies, and growing global inequalities.
Depuis 2020, les cinq hommes les plus riches du monde ont doublé leur fortune tandis que, dans le même temps, la richesse cumulée de 5 milliards de personnes a baissé. C’est ce que révèle le nouveau rapport d’Oxfam sur les inégalités mondiales.(...)
Malgré les crises successives, les milliardaires prospèrent. Pourquoi ? Car ils achètent le pouvoir politique et économique.
Rapport #Oxfam 2024 : Multinationales et inégalités multiples - Oxfam France https://www.oxfamfrance.org/rapports/multinationales-et-inegalites-multiples/
Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer in "decade of division," says Oxfam
The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020 —at a rate of $14 million per hour— while nearly five billion people have been made poorer, reveals a new Oxfam report on inequality and global corporate power. If current trends continue, the world will have its first trillionaire within a decade but poverty won’t be eradicated for another 229 years.
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So billionaires own US$3 trillion more than they did three years ago, their wealth has grown at three times the rate of inflation.
While five billion other people can’t afford what they could three years ago.
Weltweit nimmt die ungleiche Vermögensverteilung immer weiter zu. Während Reiche ihr Vermögen zuletzt vermehren konnten, leiden vor allem Arme unter wirtschaftlichen Krisen und werden immer ärmer.
#Oxfam: The daily death toll of Palestinians in Israel's war on #Gaza surpasses that of any other major conflict in the 21st century. The organizations statement also adds that "Israel’s military is killing Palestinians at an average rate of 250 people a day," which massively exceeds the daily death toll of any other major conflict of recent years.
A new report from #Oxfam asserts that #Israel's war on #Gaza is the deadliest single conflict of the 21st century. That should surprise noone, I can safely say I've never seen murder and destruction on such a scale in my entire life.
Israel is killing 250 Palestinians per day in Gaza.
This rate of killing makes Israel’s war the deadliest conflict in the 21st century, Oxfam has said in a recently published report.
The daily death rate in Gaza is higher than that seen in the conflicts in Syria (96.5 deaths per day), Sudan (51.6), Iraq (50.8), Ukraine (43.9) Afghanistan (23.8) and Yemen (15.8), according to the report.
Oxfam warns of growing hunger crisis in Tigray as families resort to extreme measures to survive (theaimn.com)
Families still reeling from the aftermath of a two-year conflict in Tigray are now resorting to increasingly desperate measures to survive. The conflict and erratic rainfall have further exacerbated the planting season which threatens to plunge the region into deeper humanitarian catastrophe if nothing is done, warns Oxfam....