Prior to the COVD19 pandemic, poor health services were already a longstanding feature of life under AS, and consistently cited by residents in interviews as among the top community needs left unmet by the group.
In Fall 2019, a local court in Hungary’s second largest city of Debrecen ordered the state to pay 99 million Forints (over 300 thousand US dollars) in financial damages to the families of Roma children who faced institutionalized segregation in public schools.
As GCC economies seek to diversify and attract foreign investment through creation of global hubs of technological innovation and international commerce, COVID-19 may provide a lesson that such strategies could lock them in to the risks of associated with globalization, urbanization, and climate change.
During the last six months, Iraq’s government has been under immense pressure due to simultaneous crises: social unrest, a dysfunctional and corrupt government, the growing spread of the coronavirus, and economic ruin.
Syria’s Rukban camp for internally displaced people (IDPs), located in the eastern desert of Homs province, is a contender for the most inhospitable location imaginable for civilians living through the ongoing civil war.
Fighting in Yemen’s Hudayda city led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of residents over the summer. Some settled in makeshift shelters in urban areas, while others headed for IDP camps constructed by NGOs or Republic of Yemen Government (ROYG)-affiliated institutions.
In the eastern desert province of Deir al-Zour, residents drink contaminated water straight from the Euphrates River and lack treatment options when they fall ill.