Archive for international justice
stop the attacks on Rafah!
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags Amnesty International, ceasefire, Gaza, Gaza war, Human Rights, International Court of Justice, international justice, Israel, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Palestine, Rafah, Refugee Convention, refugees, Stop the War, war crimes on May 30, 2024 by xi'an
“the most intense famine since WW II”
Posted in Kids with tags 07 October 2023, ceasefire, famine, FAO, Gaza, Gaza war, humanitarian aid, international justice, IPC, Israel, Palestine, Stop the War, The Guardian, UNRWA, war crimes, WHO, WW II on April 12, 2024 by xi'an
About 677,000 Gazaouis, are in “catastrophic” conditions today and a further 41% are in “emergency” conditions. Half of Gazaouis, i.e., 1.1 million people, will be in “catastrophe” or “famine” within weeks. Acute food insecurity puts all children under five at high risk of severe malnutrition and preventable death. (IPC)
Around 1.7 million people have been forced to flee their homes (UNRWA)
Projections for the likely death toll in Gaza from all causes (incl. epidemics) over the months to August 2024 produce a range of 48,210 to 193,180 deaths, under a “status quo” scenario (The Guardian)
Most Gazaoui households are skipping meals every day. In Northern Gaza, 33% of children under the age of two is considered acutely malnourished and two-thirds of households have gone entire days without food at least 10 times in the last month. (FAO)
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Posted in Books, Kids, Travel with tags Amnesty International, Burundi genocide, ENSAI, France Inter, Hutus, IAMSEA, international justice, justice, Kigali, mass murders, mass rape, Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, Rwanda, Rwanda genocide, Tutsis on April 7, 2024 by xi'an
Bayes for good
Posted in Books, Mountains, pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Amnesty International, Australian Cancer Atlas, brain damage, cancer, capture-recapture, cardiac arrest, CHANCE, CIRM, coral reefs, Darfour, DeepMind, drone, Element AI, entity separation, Great Barrier Reef, hate speech, I.J. Good, image analysis, INLA, international justice, Jean Morlet Chair, Kerrie Mengersen, Kullback-Leibler divergence, Marseille, meta-analysis, Pitman-Yor process, PNAS, R-ladies, record linkage, Syrian civil war, twitter, variational Bayes methods on November 27, 2018 by xi'an
A very special weekend workshop on Bayesian techniques used for social good in many different sense (and talks) that we organised with Kerrie Mengersen and Pierre Pudlo at CiRM, Luminy, Marseilles. It started with Rebecca (Beka) Steorts (Duke) explaining [by video from Duke] how the Syrian war deaths were processed to eliminate duplicates, to be continued on Monday at the “Big” conference, Alex Volfonsky (Duke) on a Twitter experiment on the impact of being exposed to adverse opinions as depolarising (not!) or further polarising (yes), turning into network causal analysis. And then Kerrie Mengersen (QUT) on the use of Bayesian networks in ecology, through observational studies she conducted. And the role of neutral statisticians in case of adversarial experts!
Next day, the first talk of David Corlis (Peace-Work), who writes the Stats for Good column in CHANCE and here gave a recruiting spiel for volunteering in good initiatives. Quoting Florence Nightingale as the “first” volunteer. And presenting a broad collection of projects as supports to his recommendations for “doing good”. We then heard [by video] Julien Cornebise from Element AI in London telling of his move out of DeepMind towards investing in social impacting projects through this new startup. Including working with Amnesty International on Darfour village destructions, building evidence from satellite imaging. And crowdsourcing. With an incoming report on the year activities (still under embargo). A most exciting and enthusiastic talk!
