#HumanRights advocates have raised concerns about #civilian killings. Three Democratic senators wrote to #Pentagon chief #PeteHegseth on Thurs demanding an accounting for loss of civilian lives.
…Hundreds of thousands of people seeking to escape poverty travel each year through the Horn of Africa & across the Red Sea to journey by foot through #Yemen to the #Saudi border, #aid agency officials say.
Abortion Support Network needs our help to save their helpline. They need to raise £50,000 by the end of April to cover the increasing costs of helping people travel for an abortion. They're currently at £39k.
For nearly 60 days, no #food, #fuel, #medicine or other items has entered the #GazaStrip, blocked by #Israel.
#Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. #Markets are nearly bare.
#Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
#Trump has launched an unprecedented #global #tariff war & slashed #US foreign #aid. He has disparaged #NATO #allies & embraced #Russia's narrative about its invasion of #Ukraine. And he has spoken about annexing #Greenland, retaking the #PanamaCanal & making #Canada the 51st state.
[and that’s before we talk about his domestic policies]
#US Coalition Offers #Free #Legal #Aid To #Fired #Federal #Workers
A coalition of organizations, including #unions like the AFL-CIO and #nonprofits like the nonpartisan legal volunteering network We the Action, has teamed up to connect the thousands of federal employees fired under the Trump Administration with free legal support, calling on lawyers across the U.S. to join their efforts. [via email from Law360]
WFP’s food stocks in Gaza have been depleted.
— World Food Programme (@wfp) April 25, 2025
UN says its food stocks in Gaza completely depleted amid Israeli blockade
More than 400,000 people who rely on UN-supplied meals will be affected, WFP warns.
A girl puts a pot on her head as Palestinians wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, on April 24, 2025 [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
“Again, there is no condition, there is no political excuse to deny humanitarian aid to civilians, no matter what’s going on on the ground.”
Michael Fakhri
“Let’s look at who controls the borders, who controls the flow of goods and humanitarian aid, who controls everything that goes in and out of Gaza. It is Israel.”
“What we saw in the last month, one month alone, child acute malnutrition increased by over 80 percent. So they are using children’s lives and the death of thousands in this negotiation process.”
Michael Fakhri
![Palestinian children and adults desperate for food crowd a street kitchen set up by aid organisations in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of Gaza, on April 24, 2025 [Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/402/431/335/843/782/original/c6866434d45d9807.webp "Palestinian children and adults desperate for food crowd a street kitchen set up by aid organisations in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of Gaza, on April 24, 2025 [Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu]")
We Don't Talk Enough About
how businesses often generate huge profits in low-income countries by abusing a lack of regulations, often with detrimental consequences for people
Ex 1: cigarette companies
Ex 2: Nestlé https://medium.com/@hrnews1/nestl%C3%A9-how-a-corporation-killed-10-9-million-babies-740bf555194d
A group of Israeli demonstrators hold a silent protest against their government’s starvation policy in the Gaza Strip, on April 24, 2025, in Tel Aviv, Israel [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu]
#MutualAid #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Autistic #MutualAid #Aid #Anarchism #Syndicalism #FreeSoftware #Linux #Bergen #Norway #Norge #NorskTut
Hey, hello! I'm slowly discovering anarchism (still in the bargaining stage, I guess). Do you have entry level resources on it?
Humanitarian Situation Update #gaza Strip by 
OCHA
Bombardment on gaza, including on tents sheltering displaced people, continues to cause mass casualties while the #aid blockade over the past 52 days has deprived people of the necessities for human survival
ISR military strikes destroy over 30 heavy equipment vehicles
Al Muntar water pipeline successfully repaired
Report 
APR-23
https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-update-282-gaza-strip
China’s total grant and loan commitments of $9.76 billion in the decade up to 2022 are less than the $12 billion that the U.S. spent on global health projects in 2024 alone, data shows. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/23/asia-pacific/politics/china-usaid-void-long-way/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #us #aid #development
