Archive for Human Rights Watch
a silent gendercide
Posted in Kids with tags Afghanistan, arbitrary detention, feminicide, fundamentalism, gender apartheid, gender equality, gendercide, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, taliban, torture, UN Women, violence, women rights on January 1, 2026 by xi'an
hopeless, starving, and besieged [Human Right Watch on mass forced displacements in Gaza]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags deportation, displacement, ethnic cleansing, Gaza, Geneva Conventions, HRW, Human Rights Watch, ICC, ICJ, IDF, Israel, Palestine, Palestinian refugees, war crimes on November 15, 2024 by xi'an
the plight of Gazaouis in numbers [on 08 Jan 2023]
Posted in Kids with tags ceasefire, epidemics, famine, Gaza, Gaza war, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Israel, journalist, Palestine, starvation, The Guardian, UNRWA, water resources, World Food Programme on January 12, 2024 by xi'an
Dreadful numbers that reveal the extent of the destruction in Gaza as listed by The Guardian
- at least 22,835 Palestinians had been killed, with an estimated 70% fraction of women and children
- one in a hundred of Gaza’s total population has died
- 250 people are killed per day, out of which at least 160 are civilians, more than any other major conflict of recent years
- 79 journalists have died
- 1.9 million people have been displaced, about 85% of the population
- 1.4 million people are sheltered in UNRWA facilities
- half a million people have no home to return to
- 33% of buildings have been destroyed
- 23 of 36 hospitals have stopped functioning
- 104 schools have been destroyed and about 70% of school buildings have been damaged
- water production is about 7% of the prewar level
- one in four households are already at risk of starvation
- 577,000 people are facing famine
