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Impeachment request against Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) reaches 129 signatures and sets a historical record.

‼️ This number surpasses the one registered in the impeachment request of former President Dilma Rousseff, which had 124 signatories in 2016. At the end of the process, the former president had her mandate revoked.

➡️ The crisis in Lula's government began after the president compared Israel's offensive in the #Gaza Strip to the Holocaust. He made the statement on Sunday, the 18th, during a press conference in #Ethiopia.

💬 According to lawmakers, the president's statement constitutes a crime of responsibility, in accordance with Article 5 of Law 1.079/1950, which establishes the following:

#Brazil #Israel #Politics #SouthAmerica #Lula

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The world is waging war on its children, in an obscene mockery of international law

The Guardian

From Gaza to Ukraine, from Sudan to Myanmar, youngsters are being raped, abducted, maimed, killed and even recruited as soldiers.

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Photo of Palestinian child looking for food
A Palestinian child carries empty containers to get food distributed by charities as Israeli attacks continue in Rafah, Gaza, on 25 January. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images.

Callous disregard for civilian lives and safety is a disturbing feature of modern armed conflict. From Ukraine and Gaza to Sudan and Myanmar, respect for the “laws of war” is being eroded or is non-existent. Non-combatants are deliberately targeted. Most shocking, and unforgivable, is the wanton harm – the UN term is “grave violations” – done to children.

In his latest report on children and conflict, UN secretary general António Guterres warned that children “continued to be disproportionately affected” by war-related violence and abuses. By this, he meant killing and maiming, rape, sexual violence, abductions, school attacks and recruitment of child soldiers. All were on the rise, he said. (...)

How shaming all this is. How truly shocking. That adults and nations choose to fight each other is normal, though regrettable. But a world war on children? How did it come to this?

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Tags: #laws_of_war #international_law #Ukraine #Gaza #Sudan #Myanmar #isael #russia #children #Ethiopia #tigray #Boko_Haram #nigeria #Ecuador #Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo #Palestine #Somalia #Syria #Afghanistan #Yemen #Burkina_Faso #Mali

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Residents say Ethiopian soldiers kill more than 50 civilians in #Amhara

Ethiopian soldiers killed more than 50 civilians this week in a town in the Amhara region during house-to-house searches that followed fighting with a local militia, residents told Reuters.

The reported killings in the town of Merawi appeared to be among the deadliest incidents since last July when fighting erupted between the army and the Fano militia and has resulted in more than 200 deaths, according to #UN reports last year.

The incident followed clashes between the army and Fano on Monday.
#Ethiopia #Africa #CivilWar #Politics