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Yemen’s forgotten children
With Christmas and new year centred around children, how many of us have given a thought over the holiday season to the children of Yemen — and how much of the general public knows of Britain’s role in their suffering, asks IAN SINCLAIR
An estimated 77 per cent of the 4.3m people displaced in Yemen are women and children, according to Reliefweb, the information service provided by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. In 2018 Save the Children reported that “an estimated 85,000 children under five may have died from extreme hunger” since April 2015.
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
I RECENTLY gained an insight into the horrific conditions in the troubled Middle East nation when I watched Hunger Ward.
Released in 2020, the MTV documentary is filmed inside two therapeutic feeding centres in Yemen, following two female healthcare workers treating starving children in the midst of the war.
Just 40 minutes long, it’s a harrowing, heart-breaking watch: we see resuscitation being carried out on a baby and the family wailing in grief after the child dies.
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