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19th Mar 2024

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Report: EU to increase sanctions on Myanmar

EU foreign ministers at their meeting on Monday (26 February) will call for additional sanctions against Myanmar. They will denounce the "disproportionate use of force and widespread and systematic grave human rights violations committed by the military and security forces," according to a draft text leaked to Agence Europe and approved by EU ambassadors Wednesday. Sanctions could include targeted measures against senior military officers and strengthening of the arms embargo.

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Borrell: 'Israel provoking famine', urges more aid access

70 percent of northern Gaza is facing famine, new data shows. There is one shower per 5,500 people, and 888 people per toilet. 'How can you live in these conditions?" asked Natalie Boucly of UNRWA at the European Humanitarian Forum.

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Potential legal avenues to prosecute Navalny's killers

The UN could launch an independent international investigation into Navalny's killing, akin to investigation I conducted on Jamal Khashoggi's assassination, or on Navalny's Novichok poisoning, in my role as special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, writes the secretary-general of Amnesty International.

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