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From Bosnia and Herzegovina a video showing seven adults and five children detained in cage-like detention cells in #Klobuk near #Trebinje as part of the #International_Border_Crossing (#MGP) was published. It is terrifying to read the official statement of the BiH Border Police, where they state how all is in line with EU standards- we must ask whether inhumane and humiliating treatment of people who migrate is an EU standard?

#Bosnie #Bosnie-Herzégovine #Monténégro #frontières #asile #migrations #réfugiés #route_des_Balkans #Balkans

–-> signalé par Inicijativa Dobrodosli, via leur mailing-list (29.04.2019)

Held in a cage?!

We have received footage and photos displaying two detained families after they were pushed back in the border area between Bosnia and Herzegovina with Montenegro, Klobuk border crossing near Trebinje.

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Video and the photos show people being held in cage-like detention cells, previously also seen and mentioned with the case of the Houssiny family. There were reportedly 7 adults and 5 children among the detained people. The youngest is 3 years old.

They were detained in this way and stayed over night. However, the authorities claim everything is “by the book” and in accordance with the EU standards.

They say since the border crossing where people were later taken to is not a firm building, they have no barred rooms to detain people, so they use this — ironically funded by the European Commission — in order to “provide daylight” to the people and they stress the people were not locked inside.

Either way, the question remains — is this the standard and a collective decision to treat and detain currently the most vulnerable group in the planet, refugees?

Will anyone finally bring into question and condemn the methods and current human rights breaking detention and push back practice?

►https://medium.com/are-you-syrious/ays-daily-digest-23-4-19-weekend-of-violent-push-backs-from-croatia-and-bosn

Lien vers la vidéo:
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4YAoBPGBHw

Is Yemen’s Man-Made Famine the Future of War ? | The New Yorker
►https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-yemen-intentional-starvation-the-future-of-war?mbid=social_facebook

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The U.S.- and Saudi-backed war here has increased the price of food, cooking gas, and other fuel, but it is the disappearance of millions of jobs that has brought more than eight million people to the brink of starvation and turned Yemen into the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. There is sufficient food arriving in ports here, but endemic unemployment means that almost two-thirds of the population struggle to buy the food their families need. In this way, hunger here is entirely man-made: no drought or blight has caused it.

In 2015, alarmed by the growing power of a Shia armed group known as the Houthis in its southern neighbor, Saudi Arabia formed a coalition of Arab states and launched a military offensive in Yemen to defeat the rebels. The Saudis believed that the Houthis were getting direct military support from the kingdom’s regional archrival, Iran, and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah. The offensive quickly pushed the Houthis out of some southern areas, but then faltered; the rebels still control much of the country, including the capital.

A blockade of the rebel-held area is intermittently enforced by the Saudis, with all shipments of food and other imported goods subject to U.N. or coalition approval and inspections, driving up prices. Saudi-led aerial bombing has destroyed infrastructure and businesses, and has devastated the economy inside rebel-held areas. The Saudi-led coalition, which controls Yemen’s airspace, has enforced an almost complete media blackout by preventing reporters and human-rights researchers from taking U.N. relief flights into Houthi-controlled areas for much of the last two years. In June, I reached the capital by entering the coalition-controlled part of Yemen and then, travelling by road, crossed the front line disguised as a Yemeni woman in local dress and a face veil.

Human-rights groups question the legality of the Hodeidah offensive, as well as the Saudi-led blockade and aerial bombing campaign, on the grounds that they have created widespread hunger. The Geneva Conventions prohibit the destruction of “objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population.” Alex de Waal, the author of the book “Mass Starvation,” which analyzes recent man-made famines, argued that economic war is being waged in Yemen. “The focus on food supplies over all and humanitarian action is actually missing the bigger point,” de Waal told me. “It’s an economic war with famine as a consequence.”

The world’s most recent man-made famine was in South Sudan, last year. There, the use of food as a weapon was clearer, with civilians affiliated with certain tribes driven from their homes—and food sources—by soldiers and rebels determined to terrify them into never coming back. In the epicenter of the famine, starving South Sudanese families told stories of mass murder and rape. Entire communities fled into nearby swamps and thousands starved to death or drowned. Gunmen burned markets to the ground, stole food, and killed civilians who were sneaking out of the swamps to find food.

In Syria, the images of starving children in rebel-controlled Eastern Ghouta, at the end of last year, were the latest evidence of the Assad regime’s use of siege-and-starvation tactics. With the support of Russia and Iran, the Syrian government has starved civilian enclaves as a way to pressure them to surrender. In Yemen, none of the warring parties seem to be systematically withholding food from civilians. Instead, the war is making it impossible for most civilians to earn the money they need buy food—and exposing a loophole in international law. There is no national-food-availability crisis in Yemen, but a massive economic one.

Martha Mundy, a retired professor of anthropology from the London School of Economics, has, along with Yemeni colleagues, analyzed the location of air strikes throughout the war. She said their records show that civilian areas and food supplies are being intentionally targeted. “If one looks at certain areas where they say the Houthis are strong, particularly Saada, then it can be said that they are trying to disrupt rural life—and that really verges on scorched earth,” Mundy told me. “In Saada, they hit the popular, rural weekly markets time and again. It’s very systematic targeting of that.”

De Waal argued that man-made famines will become increasingly common aspects of modern conflict, and said that defining war crimes related to food and hunger more clearly will become increasingly urgent. Hunger and preventable diseases have always killed many more people than bombs and bullets, he said, but if they are a direct result of military strategy, they should not be considered the product of chance. The war in Yemen and other wars being waged today are forcing a new legal debate about whether the lives of many people killed in conflict are lost or taken. “It is possible that they could weasel out from legal responsibility,” de Waal said, referring to commanders in such a conflict. “But there should be no escape from moral responsibility.”

#Guerre #Famine #Salopards

60 Minutes, barred from Yemen, still got the footage - CBS News
▻https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-barred-from-yemen-still-got-the-footage

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The Saudi-led blockade of Yemen isn’t just targeting food supplies. As 60 Minutes found, it’s also stopping reporters. How producers got this week’s footage

#arabie_saoudite #Yemen

Sixth mass extinction of wildlife also threatens global food supplies | Environment | The Guardian

▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/26/sixth-mass-extinction-of-wildlife-also-threatens-global-food-supplies

Le rapport st là : ▻https://www.bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/user_upload/online_library/Mainstreaming_Agrobiodiversity/Mainstreaming_Agrobiodiversity_Sustainable_Food_Systems_WEB

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he sixth mass extinction of global wildlife already under way is seriously threatening the world’s food supplies, according to experts.

“Huge proportions of the plant and animal species that form the foundation of our food supply are just as endangered [as wildlife] and are getting almost no attention,” said Ann Tutwiler, director general of Bioversity International, a research group that published a new report on Tuesday.

#it_has_begun

Israeli forces raid home of Palestinian shot dead after alleged vehicular attack
July 18, 2017 7:39 P.M. (Updated: July 18, 2017 10:50 P.M.)
▻http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=778188

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HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided the family home of 29-year-old Rafat Hirbawi — who was shot dead by Israeli forces earlier on Tuesday after allegedly carrying out a vehicular attack — in Hebron city in the southern occupied West Bank.

Hirbawi was killed after allegedly carrying out a vehicular attack at the entrance of Beit Einun north of Hebron. Two Israeli soldiers were lightly injured during the incident.

Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces surrounded and raided the home, and interrogated Hirbawi’s brother.

Following actual or alleged attacks on Israelis, Israeli authorities routinely target family members of the Palestinian assailants, often times revoking their Israeli permits, detaining them, and punitively demolishing their homes.

Israeli soldiers and officers prevented journalists and locals from taking pictures or videos of the raid. Israeli forces also confiscated the mobile phone of Ma’an reporter Duaa al-Atrash as she was attempting to cover the incident, and removed all videos she had recorded before handing it back.

An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed the raid, telling Ma’an that the “assailant’s home was raided following the attack,” but did not provide further details.

Hirwbawi, a resident of Ramallah city, was married and a father of two children. He was working as a food supplies distributor before being killed in the alleged attack.

According to Ma’an documentation, 45 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year — eight of whom were killed in the past seven days alone.

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Palestinian killed after alleged vehicular attack in southern West Bank
July 18, 2017 2:36 P.M. (Updated: July 18, 2017 9:47 P.M.)
▻http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=778183
(...) Palestinian security sources identified the slain

Palestinian as 29-year-old Rafaat Nathmi Shukri Hirbawi from Hebron City.

Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers opened fire at a Mazda car with Palestinian license plates, in which two people were riding. The Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an, however, that they were only aware of one person in the vehicle.

Immediately after shooting at the vehicle, large numbers of Israeli troops arrived at the scene and closed off the road to traffic, the eyewitnesses said, adding that the soldiers denied a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance access to the wounded Palestinian. (...)

#Palestine_assassinée

Fury in Cambodia as US asks to be paid back hundreds of millions in war debts
▻http://www.smh.com.au/world/fury-in-cambodia-as-us-asks-to-be-paid-back-hundreds-of-millions-in-war-debt

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Over 200 nights in 1973 alone, 257,456 tons of explosives fell in secret carpet-bombing sweeps – half as many as were dropped on Japan during the Second World War.

The pilots flew at such great heights they were incapable of discriminating between a Cambodian village and their targets, North Vietnamese supply lines – nicknamed the “Ho Chi Minh Trail.”

[...]

According to one genocide researcher, up to 500,000 Cambodians were killed, many of them children.

The bombings drove hundreds of thousands of ordinary Cambodians into the arms of the Khmer Rouge, an ultra-Marxist organisation which seized power in 1975 and over the next four years presided over the deaths of more than almost two million people through starvation disease and execution.

The debt started out as a US$274 million loan mostly for food supplies to the then US-backed Lon Nol government but has almost doubled over the years as Cambodia refused to enter into a re-payment program.

#Cambodge #crimes #guerre #victimes_civiles #Etats-Unis #sans_vergogne

Seven million people ’ever closer’ to starvation in Yemen : UN | Middle East Eye
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/seven-million-people-ever-closer-starvation-yemen-un-940004872

The UN says famine is more likely due to a recent escalation in the conflict, with a port that imports key food supplies becoming a target

Pas un conflit qui intéresse, pas de chance pour eux...

#yémen #arabie_heureuse

Residents of Syria’s Shia villages tell of pain and abandonment
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/21/middleeast/syria-shia-villages/index.html

The UN said Foua and Kafraya faced acute shortages of food, medicine and fuel. The agricultural land in the area initially helped mitigate the impact on food supplies, but the lack of fuel made the cultivation of agricultural lands difficult. Up to 70% of the farmland became inaccessible because of snipers, according to the UN humanitarian agency.

Despite almost daily artillery fire and limited food supplies and other commodities, the plight of the two villages have not received as much #media attention.

“The media coverage of us was completely non-existent. Even local media coverage was bad and international media would just mention the villages without even mentioning the presence of civilians there,” Eyad, a student in Latakia whose parents are still in Foua, told CNN over the phone.
He did not want his full name to be published over security concerns.

Mauvais #civils #Syrie

Iran launches first overseas farming plan
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/25264-iran-launches-first-overseas-farming-plan

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Iran has launched agricultural cultivation in #Kazakhstan, marking its first farmland investment overseas as the Middle Eastern country seeks to secure food supplies amid a lingering drought.

Cultivation has begun over eight hectares of farmland in the Central Asian country, with the next project expected to start in Ukraine in the next few months, Agriculture Ministry’s Mohammad Reza Shafeinia of Iran said.

A similar plan is in the works for #Ghana whose agricultural sector accounts for over half of the African nation’s gross domestic product and is the world’s second largest cocoa producer.

Water-intensive rice and corn crops as well as oilseeds and livestock inputs have been cited by Agriculture Ministry officials as the target products which Iran seeks to grow on farmlands overseas.

The semi-arid country is awaking to its water shortage vulnerability, rushing through a series of exigency plans to tide over the problem.

#Iran #Asie_centrale #eau #terres

80% de la population du Yémen risque maintenant de souffrir de la faim
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/06/us-yemen-security-idUSKBN0NR0QH20150506

The conflict has disrupted imports to Yemen, where about 20 million people or 80 percent of the population are estimated to be going hungry, a statement by the United Nations and the Yemen International NGO Forum said.

A shortage of fuel has crippled hospitals and food supplies in recent weeks, and the U.N.’s World Food Programme has said its monthly fuel needs have leapt from 40,000 liters a month to 1 million liters.

UAE’s food imports to rise to $400b in 10 years
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/24722

The UAE import 85 per cent of its food, and the government plans to develop farmland in other countries — due to the lack of arable lands in the UAE — to secure food supplies amid increasing demand.

Also the government is urging diversification of the sources of the food it imports to hedge against any crisis.

“Planning to secure food supply is very important not only for the UAE or Gulf region but for the entire Arab world,” Al Mansouri said.

The UAE’s government has carried out a number of missions to regions that have potential in agro-food investments including, Latin America, Africa, East Europe and other Arabic countries. Most of these countries were not ready for investments in terms of rules and regulations, he said.

Puisqu’on en parle, attention peinture fraîche

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Briefing: #Ebola–myths, realities, and structural #violence

Ten months after the first infection, Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, described the Ebola epidemic in West Africa as the ‘most severe acute public health emergency in modern times’. The disaster, she said, represents a ‘crisis for international peace and security’ and threatens the ‘very survival of societies and governments in already very poor countries’.1 As of October 2014, the disease had killed 4,951 and infected 13,567.2 It has crippled families, health systems, livelihoods, food supplies and economies in its wake. These numbers are likely to be vastly underestimated. How did it get to this? Why has this outbreak been so much larger than previous ones? The scale of the disaster has been attributed to the weak health systems of affected countries, their lack of resources, the mobility of communities and their inexperience in dealing with Ebola.3 This answer, however, is woefully de-contextualized and de-politicized. This briefing examines responses to the outbreak and offers a different set of explanations, rooted in the history of the region and the political economy of global health and development.

▻http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/114/454/136.extract?etoc

Insecticides put world food supplies at risk, say scientists | Environment | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/24/insecticides-world-food-supplies-risk

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Climate Change Deemed Growing Security Threat by Military Researchers - NYTimes.com

▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/us/politics/climate-change-deemed-growing-security-threat-by-military-researchers.html?

WASHINGTON — The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published Tuesday by a leading government-funded military research organization concluded.

The Center for Naval Analyses Military Advisory Board found that climate change-induced drought in the Middle East and Africa is leading to conflicts over food and water and escalating longstanding regional and ethnic tensions into violent clashes. The report also found that rising sea levels are putting people and food supplies in vulnerable coastal regions like eastern India, Bangladesh and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam at risk and could lead to a new wave of refugees.

#climat #sécurité #défense #géostratégie #géopolitique

Amazon forest loss threatens five states | Climate News Network

▻http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/2013/12/amazon-forest-loss-threatens-five-states

By Paul Brown

Water, food supplies and energy production are all in jeopardy as the Amazon forest is felled for profit, campaigners say – and the damage is spreading beyond Amazonia itself.

LONDON, 29 December – The continued destruction of the Amazon to exploit its resources for mining, agriculture and hydro-power is threatening the future of the South American continent, according to a report by campaigning groups using the latest scientific data.

#forêts #amazonie #déforestation

Climate change adds to East Africa’s food plight | Climate News Network

▻http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/2013/12/climate-change-adds-to-east-africas-food-plight

Agriculture dominates the economies of countries in East Africa: if plans aren’t made to adapt to climate change the region’s rapidly expanding population faces a grim future, says a new report.

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LONDON, 19 December – The report, East African Agriculture and Climate Change, published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), looks at threats to food supplies in 11 countries in East and Central Africa – Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

Agriculture accounts for more than 40% of gross domestic product across the region. The report says soil deficiencies in many parts mean agricultural productivity is falling.

#afique_est #agriculture #alimentation #famine

interview: Syrian refugees ’think world has forgotten them’

The UN is launching its biggest ever appeal for aid, to help those affected by the nearly three years of civil war in Syria.

A study suggests some four out of every five people are worried food supplies are running out - and bread now costs five times what it used to.

Millions of Syrians have fled their homes, and the UN’s humanitarian envoy, Baroness Amos, says many she has met say they feel the world has abandoned them.

▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25397244#TWEET986044

#Syrie #réfugiés #abandon

Food shortages could force world into vegetarianism, warn scientists | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/aug/26/food-shortages-world-vegetarianism

Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world’s population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages.

Humans derive about 20% of their protein from animal-based products now, but this may need to drop to just 5% to feed the extra 2 billion people expected to be alive by 2050, according to research by some of the world’s leading water scientists.

#nutrition #alimentation #faim #viande #eau #cdp