Nature-based Solutions Vital to Mitigating Conflict-linked Environmental Damage
When the dust settles after wars and armed conflicts, people are eager to rebuild their lives and livelihoods in the wake of the devastation wrought upon their country. Often one issue is largely absent in post-conflict reconstruction and development planning: addressing conflict-linked destruction of the environment.
Not only is the environment a “silent victim of armed conflict,” people often overlook it, despite the huge environmental damage conflicts cause with impacts that echo long into the future. Conflict pollution, land degradation, over-exploitation of natural resources, and weak environmental governance have direct and long-term consequences for communities and directly impact climate-resilience capacities.
Article 26 January 2021 Afghanistan I suffered for three years without a piece of my heart, says Mohammad Shah as tears flow freely down his bearded face. The 65-year-old has not forgotten the last time he held his son Faisal Hanafi and kissed him goodbye. Reliving that moment a thousand times over helped Mohammad Shah and his wife go through the years of uncertainty as they waited to hear news of their son.
Hanafi had to flee the country after facing multiple threats to his life. Worried for their son s wellbeing, Mohammad Shah and his wife helped him leave the country despite the risk of losing touch with him along the way. I paid $10,000 to help my son escape to Europe via Pakistan. When we hugged and said goodbye, we did not know if we would see him again. When we did not hear any news for three years our hopes had started fading, says Mohammad Shah.
AL-MUKALLA: The Iran-backed Houthis have continued to deny dozens of sick abductees life-saving medical treatment and winter clothes, putting their lives at risk of death, relatives said on Monday.
The Abductees Mothers’ Association, an umbrella organization for thousands of relatives of abductees in Yemen, staged a rare sit-in outside the International Committee of the Red Cross’ office in the Houthi-held Sanaa to draw attention to 50 incarcerated relatives in the Political Security Prison in Sanaa, where they are enduring torture and abuse.
The organization said that prisoners are experiencing deteriorating health conditions and their captors are refusing to offer them necessary medications. It added that the captors had prevented relatives from bringing winter clothes despite knowing that the abductees suffer from chronic illnesses such as strokes, kidney failure, diabetes and spondylosis.
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Ethiopia: Red Cross sends medicines, relief supplies to Mekelle to fortify paralyzed health care facilities
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Addis Ababa / Geneva (ICRC) – A convoy carrying medicines and relief supplies from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS), organized in coordination with the Ethiopian authorities, has reached the Tigray State capital, Mekelle. Health care facilities there have become paralyzed after supplies of drugs and basics like surgical gloves ran out. It is the first international aid to arrive in Mekelle since fighting erupted in Tigray more than one month ago.
“Behind me are trucks loaded with medical assistance and other required aid for our teams on the ground to be distributed to local hospitals and primary health care centres,” said Patrick Youssef, International Committee of the Red Cross’ (ICRC) regional director for Africa from Addis Ababa the day before the trucks left for Mekelle.