A young boy who lost his leg in the Yemen war uses a prosthetic limb at a government-run rehabilitation center in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 5, 2016. Yemen's conflict pits the government, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, against Shiite rebels known as Houthis allied with a former president. Yemen's war has killed at least 6,200 civilians and injured tens of thousands of Yemenis, and 2.4 million people have been displaced, according to U.N. figures. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Poll: Americans Oblivious, But Not Uncaring, To Overseas Suffering

“Near-famine, which is affecting 20 million people in Africa and the Middle East, is likely the least reported but most important major issue of our time.”

by Jake Johnson

UN: Yemen Faces ‘Total Collapse’ From Saudi Arabia’s War

More than two years of war in Yemen has triggered a humanitarian crisis, with almost seven million people on the brink of famine.

UN: Yemen Faces ‘Total Collapse’ From Saudi Arabia’s War

A new report from UN humanitarian officials is warning that the humanitarian situation in Yemen is getting even worse, saying it is no longer correct to say that “crisis is coming,” but time to recognize that the crisis in Yemen has already arrived, with mounting starvation, war

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John Pilger: The White Helmets Are A “Complete Propaganda Construct”

In yesterday’s interview with RT’s Going Underground, John Pilger outed the White Helmets as nothing more than a “complete propaganda construct in Syria.”

John Pilger: The White Helmets Are A “Complete Propaganda Construct”

Just prior to the 2016 announcement of the Nobel Prize I wrote to eminent author and filmmaker, John Pilger, about the NATO and Gulf State propaganda construct, the White Helmets, demonstrated to be nothing more than Nusra Front civil defense in Syria. In yesterday’s interview with RT’s  Going

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Vanessa Beeley

Vanessa Beeley

Author Vanessa Beeley is a contributor to 21WIRE, and since 2011, she has spent most of her time in the Middle East reporting on events there – as a independent researcher, writer, photographer and peace activist. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Syria Solidarity Movement, and a volunteer with the Global Campaign to Return to Palestine. See more of her work at her blog The Wall Will Fall.

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Global Response To People Fleeing Ravages Of War: ‘Callous Indifference,’ Humanitarian Failure

Boat tragedy in Libya, corpses of refugees in truck in Austria reminder of human cost of war, lack of humanitarian responses.

Global Response To People Fleeing Ravages Of War: ‘Callous Indifference,’ Humanitarian Failure

It's a crisis of record proportions that is being met with global "callous indifference" and failed, dehumanizing responses, human rights experts say. The crisis, described as Europe's worst refugee crisis

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US Backed Saudi Naval Blockade Leaves 20m Inside Yemen Facing Humanitarian Disaster

Aid agencies say embargo imposed by US and UK-backed Arab coalition has had dramatic effect, with almost 80% of population in urgent need of food, water and medical supplies.

Twenty million Yemenis, nearly 80% of the population, are in urgent need of food, water and medical aid, in a humanitarian disaster that aid agencies say has been dramatically worsened by a naval blockade imposed by an Arab coalition with US and British backing. Washington and London have quietly tried to persuade the Saudis, who are leading the

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U.N. Helpless As Crises Rage In 10 Critical Hot Spots

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says even the U.N.’s 193 member states cannot, by themselves, help resolve these widespread conflicts.

U.N. Helpless As Crises Rage In 10 Critical Hot Spots

A street is littered with debris after a Saudi-led airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen's capital, Monday, April 20, 2015. Yemen is one of the world's hotspot that the U.N. says it is unable to address. UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations is fighting a losing battle against a rash of

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USAID: A Wolf In Humanitarian Clothing

Propaganda and false premises mark the U.S. response to a “prisoner swap” with Cuba. In such a “deal,” Cuba would release a “wrongly imprisoned” USAID subcontractor in exchange for the freedom of three Cuban intelligence agents jailed as “terrorists” in the U.S.

USAID: A Wolf In Humanitarian Clothing

The case of Alan Gross -- the USAID subcontractor imprisoned in Cuba in 2011 for activities attempting to sabotage the Cuban Revolution -- is sometimes juxtaposed, unfairly, with the case of the Cuban 5 -- the Cuban intelligence agents unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. for their role in preventing terrorist attacks on Cuba. The United States’

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Ramona Wadi

Ramona Wadi

Ramona Wadi is an independent researcher, freelance journalist, book reviewer and blogger. She writes about the struggle for memory in Palestine and Chile, historical legitimacy, the ramifications of settler-colonialism, the correlation between humanitarian aid and human rights abuses, the United Nations as an imperialist organisation, indigenous resistance, la nueva cancion Chilena and Latin American revolutionary philosophy with a particular focus on Fidel Castro, Jose Marti and Jose Carlos Mariategui. Her articles, book reviews, interviews and blogs have been published in Middle East Monitor, Upside Down World, Truthout, Irish Left Review, Gramsci Oggi, Cubarte, Rabble.ca, Toward Freedom, History Today, Chileno and other outlets, including academic publications and translations into several languages.

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