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To prevent these worst-case scenarios, we, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Principals, urgently request the parties to the conflict to do the following:

Take immediate measures to protect civilians, including by refraining from directing attacks against them, allowing them to leave for safer areas, and ending sexual and gender-based violence. Facilitate unimpeded humanitarian access through all possible crossline and cross-border routes to allow civilians to receive humanitarian aid. Immediately cease all acts denying, obstructing and interfering with, or politicizing, humanitarian action. Simplify and expedite administrative and bureaucratic procedures related to the delivery of humanitarian aid. De-escalate the situation in Al Fasher and adopt a nationwide ceasefire. Stop human rights violations, including grave violations against children, and hold perpetrators accountable for their crimes.

We are also concerned by the limited support from donors. Nearly five months into the year – and six weeks after the International Humanitarian Conference for Sudan and its Neighbours in Paris on 15 April – we've received just 16 per cent of the $2.7 billion we need.

Donors must urgently disburse pledges made in Paris and fast-track additional funding for the humanitarian appeal. With a famine on the horizon, we must deliver much more life-saving aid now, including seeds for farmers before the planting season ends.

The clock is ticking. The choice is clear.

The Georgia prosecutor who has brought charges accusing former President Donald Trump and others of illegally trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state is asking the judge in the case to take steps to protect jurors in the case.

My heart goes out to all of the victims of the Hawaiian fires. That's terrifying to imagine a fire sweeping through a community that quickly.

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You can post anything here, it doesn't even have to be about politics. That said, I'd love to hear what you all think of the indictment!

EDIT: I would like to ask people in the comment section to respect community info. This is not c/politics. Thank you.

Found this on hacker news and wanted to post it here. It's fascinating to see how quickly the Earth is heating and just how anomalous the temperature is this year.

The new law is madness. If this happened in the US people would riot, and rightfully so in my opinion.

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I rarely read this sort of thing. It's honestly just very dense and I can't motivate myself to read it every day. That said, with the new cluster bombs getting shipped to Ukraine and some Western pundits accusing the Counteroffensive of stagnation I kind of just wanted to know, "What the actual F is going on in Ukraine right now?"

So my partial TLDR is:

• It's very early in the counteroffensive to say who is "winning".
• The source publication believes that the Ukrainian Army is focusing on inflicting disproportionate casualties onto the Russian Military in lieu of focusing on taking back land as quickly as possible.
• There's a lot of uncertainty inside the Russian political sphere and the upper echelons of the Ministry of Defense.

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Personally, I hate politico. I don't think they're unbiased and I don't think they have good coverage. Nonetheless I wanted to bring up abortion.

I find it hard to believe that the GOPs attacks on abortion actually matter that much politically. I believe they matter for women's right but that's out of scope of this post. I don't know how many states are actually going to swing blue just because the GOP repealed Roe v Wade. "The Base" is locked into the Trump train. 80% of republicans support trump even though he was instrumental in, and took credit for, the abortion ban.