The current violence aggravates the country’s food crisis, disturbing local food production in critical areas such as the municipality of Kenscoff and the Artibonite department, often considered as the bread packets of Haiti.
While the UN and its partners respond “everywhere wherever and as far as possible”, the UN spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said on Wednesday that the humanitarian workers could only reach 38% of the population they aim to support.
Several roadblocks
“This is due to the current violence and insecurity, the serious under-funding of the response and the obvious access challenges,” he said.
Halfway, Haiti is the the least funded Among the many humanitarian calls that the UN coordinates – despite the gaps for food security in the country at extreme levels – with just over $ 425 million necessary to date this year.
Myanmar: Conflict intensification obstructs humanitarian aid
Almost four months after the devastating earthquake of the Myanmar, the UN is deeply concerned about the fate of civilians caught in the devastating and continuous conflict of the country between the military regime and the country’s armed groups.
As the fighting intensifies, civilians are particularly vulnerable, with increasing attacks against infrastructure.
According to information, an air strike struck a monastery in the canton of Sagan in the sagaing region on July 11, killing 22 people and injuring at least 50 others. The monastery had offered a shelter to displaced people who had fled nearby villages.
A travel camp in the state of North Shan would also have been struck by an air strike during the weekend.
‘Wider diagram’
“These incidents are part of a wider scheme of attacks affecting people through Myanmar,” said Dujarric, with frequent reports of people killed, injured or moved by violence.
Such insecurity also has an impact on the ability of humanitarian teams to achieve people in need: with one in three people confronted with acute hunger, and the current monsoon season has caused floods, “the UN urgently calls on all parties to respect human rights and international humanitarian law,” he said.
Bélarus: Rights experts urge Probe on death deaths of opposition activists
Top Human Rights Experts called Belarus Wednesday to launch urgent investigations into the death of several people imprisoned for political dissent.
Experts – who are known as special rapporteurs – have stressed the case of the 61 -year -old businessman Valiantsin Shtermer. He died in May 2025 as he served his sentence in a so-called “correctional colony” in Šklou.
Mr. Shtermer had been imprisoned for having made critical comments on the large -scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Despite his serious state of health, he would have been denied sufficient care in prison.
The fifty -year -old opposition activist, Vitold Ashurak, also died shortly after being placed in isolation in the same prison.
According to special rapporteurs, Ashurak was a member of the Belarusian National Front who was imprisoned for having violated public order during demonstrations linked to the presidential elections disputed in 2020.
We must not ignore these dead
“These deaths should not be ignored,” said the experts, who added that there were solid reasons to believe that they result from abuse or negligence linked to the exercise of fundamental rights.
“It is of the utmost importance to investigate in -depth in the alleged cases of ill -treatment and negligence which led to the death of Shtermer, Ashurak, Puškin and other people designated as political prisoners by human rights defenders”, the defenders “, the defenders”, the defenders “, the defenders”, the defenders “, the defenders”. Human Rights Council The appointed experts stressed.
“There are great reasons to believe that these people have lost their lives in retaliation for having exercised their civil and political rights, including rights to freedom of expression and the Pacific Assembly.”
Independent experts expressed their concern that certain opposition figures had been stigmatized and labeled as “extremists” or even “terrorists”.
Special rapporteurs regularly report to the Human Rights Council. They are not UN staff and do not receive payment for their work.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
