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US, Myanmar, Libya, Congo and the 38 Other Countries That Owe the #UN Money - PassBlue
US, Myanmar, Libya, Congo and the 38 Other Countries That Owe the #UN Money - PassBlue
France’s ecology ministry says the European Union must be “less naive” and “more transactional” in global climate negotiations and consider using financial and trade leverage to assert its position. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/02/04/climate-change/eu-cop-climate-talks-france/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #eu #europe #france #climatechange #un
Historians’ rankings of America’s best and worst foreign-policy decisions show the U.S. succeeded when it led cooperatively through multilateral institutions and failed when it turned inward or went rogue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/02/world/best-and-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #marshallplan #nato #un #brettonwoods #worldbank #imf #gatt #wto #treatyofversailles #parisagreement #monroedoctrine #donroedoctrine #iraqinvasion #donaldtrump
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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs #UN #OCHA periodical update on #Gaza:
At least 71,667 Palestinians #killed by now, including¹ at least 20,179 #children (of which 931 younger than 1 year; 356 killed immediately after birth), and 10,427 #women.
More than 1,700 health workers killed.²
Since the ceasefire came into effect, 492 Palestinians were killed (including at least 100 children), 1,356 were injured.
Currently no comprehensive data on aid delivery. As of January 14th 2025, three crossings into Gaza were operational.
Currently no concise data on levels of food insecurity. In January 2025, for the first time since October 2023, stocks are sufficient to provide monthly food rations covering the minimum caloric needs of a household.
At 970 displacement sites, an estimated 1.3 million people are living; 795,000 of them live in in flood-prone areas.
The Israeli military remains deployed within more than 50% of the Gaza stripe (Yellow Line). Access to humanitarian facilities and assets, public infrastructure and agricultural land remain severely restricted or prohibited there, and detonations of residential buildings are reported.
About 92% of all #housing units either destroyed (160,000) or damaged (276,000)³
¹numbers in brackets last updated May 28th, 2025; other breakdown numbers last updated on October 7th, 2025
²updated on October 7th, 2025
³no data given since October 15th, 2025
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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs #UN #OCHA periodical update on #Gaza:
At least 71,667 Palestinians #killed by now, including¹ at least 20,179 #children (of which 931 younger than 1 year; 356 killed immediately after birth), and 10,427 #women.
More than 1,700 health workers killed.²
Since the ceasefire came into effect, 492 Palestinians were killed (including at least 100 children), 1,356 were injured.
Currently no comprehensive data on aid delivery. As of January 14th 2025, three crossings into Gaza were operational.
Currently no concise data on levels of food insecurity. In January 2025, for the first time since October 2023, stocks are sufficient to provide monthly food rations covering the minimum caloric needs of a household.
At 970 displacement sites, an estimated 1.3 million people are living; 795,000 of them live in in flood-prone areas.
The Israeli military remains deployed within more than 50% of the Gaza stripe (Yellow Line). Access to humanitarian facilities and assets, public infrastructure and agricultural land remain severely restricted or prohibited there, and detonations of residential buildings are reported.
About 92% of all #housing units either destroyed (160,000) or damaged (276,000)³
¹numbers in brackets last updated May 28th, 2025; other breakdown numbers last updated on October 7th, 2025
²updated on October 7th, 2025
³no data given since October 15th, 2025
Sources:
Further statistics:
The demilitarization of Gaza will include decommissioning weapons through an agreed process "supported by an internationally funded buyback" program, the United States told the U.N. Security Council. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/29/world/politics/us-un-gaza-demilitarization-buyback/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #us #un
If you attended #FediForum before, you now should have received an invite to our upcoming un-workshop on "Growing the Open Social Web".
It's intended to be half way between unconference (agenda is entirely open) and workshop (focused, with up-front paper submissions).
This un-workshop is a bit of an experiment, but then, the topic is important, and many people in the community have very specific thoughts on this topic that are worth being laid out up-front.
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So, if you care about this topic, please join us March 2.
More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/
Note: this #un-workshop is intended to be independent of protocols, projects, communities etc as long as we are talking #open, because we have a barn to raise here, and everybody's constructive contributions are welcome.
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A U.N. humanitarian convoy has arrived in the Kurdish-majority town of Kobane, which has been filled recently with people displaced by clashes in northern Syria. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/26/world/politics/aid-kurdish-majority-town-un/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #syria #kurds #middleeast #un
The number of people reported killed in Iran’s protest crackdown has risen as rights groups continue to verify suspected fatalities, with one United Nations official saying the total could be more than 20,000. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/26/world/iran-protest-death-toll/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #iran #middleeast #us #un
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Rojava Is Fighting for Its Survival
> For days now, the Syrian interim government, together with Islamist mercenaries, has been carrying out attacks on Rojava, a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. Not only is a humanitarian #catastrophe imminent, but also the end of the #Kurdish self-government.
> [..] After the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, the Islamist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), under Ahmed al-Sharaa, seized control of large parts of the region. As a historic al-Qaeda affiliate, HTS lacks both viable administrative structures and broad societal legitimacy.
> Nevertheless, Western states, especially the United States, have signaled an early strategic interest in the militia’s political rise. For the United States, the UK, and the EU, al-Sharaa appears as a weak actor that does not control large parts of the country and can thus be easily co-opted into long-term geopolitical interests in the Middle East. Since seizing power, HTS has presented a diplomatic front to the outside world, while repression and #massacres are the rule internally. Alawites in Latakia, Druze in Suweida, and now Kurds have been targeted.
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/rojava-kurds-sdf-syria-war/
https://mastodon.social/@newsblogkurdistan/115956317738590318
https://journa.host/@NatalieDavis/115957221805865847
#Aleppo #DAANES #jihadist #revolution #SheikhMaqsoud #Turkey #attacks #Syria #Kurdistan #ISIS #UN #Rojava #Islamist #HumanitarianCrisis #MiddleEast #Druze #Kurds #Alawites #AlQaeda #HTS #AhmedalSharaa
Rojava Is Fighting for Its Survival
> For days now, the Syrian interim government, together with Islamist mercenaries, has been carrying out attacks on Rojava, a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. Not only is a humanitarian #catastrophe imminent, but also the end of the #Kurdish self-government.
> [..] After the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, the Islamist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), under Ahmed al-Sharaa, seized control of large parts of the region. As a historic al-Qaeda affiliate, HTS lacks both viable administrative structures and broad societal legitimacy.
> Nevertheless, Western states, especially the United States, have signaled an early strategic interest in the militia’s political rise. For the United States, the UK, and the EU, al-Sharaa appears as a weak actor that does not control large parts of the country and can thus be easily co-opted into long-term geopolitical interests in the Middle East. Since seizing power, HTS has presented a diplomatic front to the outside world, while repression and #massacres are the rule internally. Alawites in Latakia, Druze in Suweida, and now Kurds have been targeted.
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/rojava-kurds-sdf-syria-war/
https://mastodon.social/@newsblogkurdistan/115956317738590318
https://journa.host/@NatalieDavis/115957221805865847
#Aleppo #DAANES #jihadist #revolution #SheikhMaqsoud #Turkey #attacks #Syria #Kurdistan #ISIS #UN #Rojava #Islamist #HumanitarianCrisis #MiddleEast #Druze #Kurds #Alawites #AlQaeda #HTS #AhmedalSharaa
UN sendet Hilfskonvois nach Kobane
Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, Vertreter des Hohen Flüchtlingskommissars der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) in Syrien, erklärte am Sonntag, dass ein Konvoi mit humanitären Hilfsgütern und Hilfsgütern in Richtung Kobani im Norden Syriens unterwegs sei.
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For every dollar invested in protecting #nature, 30 dollars are spent on destroying it – that’s the central finding of the #UN State of Finance for Nature report.
Next time you see a #conservation or #treeplanting project by a large corporation, look into how much they conversely spent on exploiting planet and people.
For every dollar invested in protecting #nature, 30 dollars are spent on destroying it – that’s the central finding of the #UN State of Finance for Nature report.
Next time you see a #conservation or #treeplanting project by a large corporation, look into how much they conversely spent on exploiting planet and people.
With humans depleting freshwater systems to the point they can’t recover, a new era has begun of "global water bankruptcy,” according to a United Nations report. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/01/23/sustainability/global-water-bankruptcy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #sustainability #water #un #climatechange
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“The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.
Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”
The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement. I agreed with it entirely. So, it seemed to me, did most of the non-Americans.
… it was still being talked about the next day. “Thank God,” one allied official said to me. “Someone had to tell them.””
The U.S. is due to officially exit the World Health Organization, despite concerns over the impact to public health and the legality of the departure under American law. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/22/world/science-health/us-quit-who/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #who #health #donaldtrump #us #un #tedrosadhanomghebreyesus