Extremely important reporting that raises serious questions about the wisdom and the legality of US plans to build a temporary port in Gaza.

Per satellite imagery and local reporting, the IDF has unlawfully destroyed private homes in order to clear the surrounding area.

Fazley Elahi Mahmud writes about gross errors in Bangladesh's targeted social protection programs, noting that 46.5% of those receiving benefits were erroneously selected: thedailystar.net/opinion/views/… Valentina Barca Stephen Kidd Isabel Ortiz Matthew Greenslade Isobel Frye SGul

1/ We are assisting to States' unprecedented pressures on the #ICC . As I wrote a few weeks ago in relation to the Prosecutor's investigation in #Palestine , if the ICC surrenders to such political pressure, this would constitute a betrayal of the Court’s raison d’etre. #Gaza

ICC warrants against Israel and Hamas will offer the West a choice: either torpedo the international criminal justice project they have advanced since 1945 for good or hypocritically demand impunity for Israeli war crimes. Seems like the US has chosen the former

Leaked USAID memo: “deterioration of food security and nutrition in Gaza is unprecedented in modern history, exponentially outpacing in six months the long-term declines that led to the only other two famine declarations in the 21st century”

Just damning
devex.com/news/exclusive…

(1/7) The realities of climate finance for social protection ⬇

⭐ In the latest STAAR publication, Robbie Hopper, Matthew Hurworth and Zac Lowndes-Bull outline the status of international public climate finance going to social protection.

I salute Catherine Colonna and the technical experts who authored the report on #UNRWA 's #neutrality .

Main takeways from this expert assessment:

1. UNRWA's existing neutrality policies are robust, surpassing those of similar entities, with effective control mechanisms to address…

Everything columlynch describes from this USAID memo is spot-on.

Famine likely underway; Israel still obstructing aid; ending famine requires a cease-fire.

Under Biden's own policy - and US law - US should already be limiting further military aid.

L'equivalente di un eccidio delle Fosse Ardeatine per ogni ospedale di Gaza.

🔔New International Labour Organization REPORT is OUT ‼️

🔻70% of global workforce faces #climate change-related #health hazards.

🔺Climate change isn't just 1 #environmental issue; it's a #workplace health crisis.

📣Urgent need 4 ↗️ #OSH protections 2 ensure safety/health @ work👉tinyurl.com/3zdr5z5p

Pro-Israel US groups plan $100m effort to unseat progressives over Gaza | US elections 2024 | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

I told the Security Council: Calls for UNRWA’s closure are not about adherence to humanitarian principles.
They are about ending the refugee status of millions of Palestinians.

They seek to change the long-standing political parameters for #peace in the occupied Palestinian…

Every single civilian, woman, child killed in Rafah will be on the United States, mainly, and complicit or idle Governments. They will be on ICJ judges against PM of cessation of hostilities, on the ICC and its intolerable delay, on Ambassadors at Large for double standards,

Why is this happening?

1 in 5 emerging markets and developing countries paid more to service their debt in 2022 than they received in external financing.

This could rise to more than one in three by 2025

#SpringMeetings #WBGMeetings

SHOCKING STAT

🔥Last year money flows to developing countries turned negative.🔥

💵$50bn dollars a year is now flowing 🔥OUT OF🔥 the poorest and most vulnerable countries.💵

What’s going on and how can World Bank and @IMFnews fix it?

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#SpringMeetings #WBGMeetings

In 2015 World Bank committed to advance #UniversalSocialProtection . What has happened since? Join us for a discussion on progress and obstacles at #CSPF2024 👇
🗓️Wednesday April 17
⏰4:15-5:45pm ET

“with a heavy focus on security screening and the removal of migrants deemed undeserving, the pact highlights how far Europe’s centre has already shifted to the right on migration – and risks further empowering the radical right it aims to neutralise”

Short turn-around consulting opportunity w/ UNICEF Innocenti

*70 days to work on an IE of national social protection program in Cambodia 🇰🇭
*Advanced degree + 5 yrs [PhD preferred]

Deadline *Monday!* cc. Richard de Groot [<-- DM with any questions!]

jobs.unicef.org/en-us/job/5711…

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is horrified by the dire situation transpiring in the #WestBank . During what has already been a devastating six months of genocide in #Gaza , the Israeli government has used this opportunity to expand and intensify expulsions and forced displacements of…

“Under the newly proposed scheme, Nigerians are getting a bank-enabled national ID, a social intervention card, and an optional ECOWAS National Biometric Identity Card”

benjamindada.com/nigeria-new-na…