Crew members of the Army ship James A. Loux in Hampton, Va., prepare on March 12, 2024, for the ship to go to the Middle East to build the Gaza pier.
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This isn’t the first time the US military has turned to building a pier to help reach people during times of war or other crises.
A demonstrator waves a Haitian flag during protests calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry in Port-au-Prince on March 1, 2024. The current crisis demands both time, and a new approach from the international community.
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Emmanuel Sael, École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP) and Jean-François Savard, École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP)
Haiti will be able to emerge from the crisis it is in if it has a strong public administration and co-ordinated international aid from countries that respect human rights.
We speak with Hilal Elver, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and current University of California professor about the looming famine in Gaza after months of Israeli attacks.
Chaos on the streets of Port-au-Prince.
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Can a multinational security mission provide Haiti with a stable future? Not without sustained funding for after the troops leave.
Leaders speak during a plenary session at the COP28 UN climate summit, Dec. 13, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. COP28 was notable for being the first COP to provide a substantial platform for sub-national groups.
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Subnational authorities are leading the charge on a just transition and dealing with climate change impacts. It is time for this key role to be reflected in international climate negotiations.
A UN meeting this week considered a motion on a suite of technologies known as ‘solar radiation modification’, but no consensus could be reached on the controversial topic.
Extractive mining disrupts the balance of the planet’s ecosystems and is set to rise. Could urban mining or degrowth help curb unsustainable practices?
Whooping cranes are listed as threatened - their conservation hinges on joined-up efforts along their migration routes.
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Nature knows no borders. While decline of threatened migratory animals is alarming, there are reasons to be optimistic about international conservation efforts.
‘Pressure cooker of despair’: Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt.
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Camps are dynamic, culturally significant spaces. We propose the significance of these cultural practices may provide an alternative pathway to protection.
A view of destroyed buildings and roads is shown in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on Feb. 2, 2024.
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While the conflict between Hamas and Israel is unique, the case of South Africa’s border war – and subsequent fall of apartheid – might offer lessons that apply to the Middle East.
A UNRWA staff member registers a Palestinian family who fled their house in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh to an UNRWA school, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023.
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Recent moves to cut UNRWA’s funding are not the first time the UN agency has come under threat.
With Gaza’s health-care system crumbling amid Israel’s military assault, patients whose lives depend on dialysis are at risk with fewer and fewer facilities and resources.
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Patients with kidney failure need regular dialysis treatments to survive. However, the equipment, supplies and medical staff needed for dialysis have been largely destroyed by the assault on Gaza.
‘UK could recognise Palestine after the war’: David Cameron made the promise while in Lebanon, meeting the caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati.
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Much of the world already recognises Palestinian statehood. But recognition by the US and UK would be a hugely important decision.
Human rights barrister Baroness Helena Kennedy is co-chairing a high level group looking at enforced disappearances of Ukrainian children by Russian occupying forces.
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Governments all over the world are propping up overfishing. Now scientists have penned an open letter calling on trade ministers to implement stricter regulations against harmful fisheries subsidies.
Palestinians await the distribution of UNRWA flour.
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The US is among more than a dozen countries to freeze funding to UN agency providing aid to displaced Gazans over allegations of complicity in the Oct. 7 attack.
Palestinian refugees at a protest outside the South Africa embassy in Beirut.
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