Fwd: Alertnet Expresso - Your daily shot of humanitarian news

Here are the top humanitarian news on trust.org today.

MIDDLE EAST

One million people wounded, diseases spreading in Syria - WHO

UN launches 2015 Syria appeal, focuses on helping refugees' host nations

• SPOTLIGHT: Syria's civil war

Of $5.4 billion pledged for Gaza, only a fraction delivered

• SPOTLIGHT: Israeli-Palestinian confllict

ASIA

After tsunami, fishermen struggle against tide of tourism in Thailand

Despite billions in aid, U.S. unable to get Pakistan to confront militants

Some Pakistan militants denounce school attack, amid national outrage

AFRICA

Sierra Leone's leading doctor dies of Ebola

• SPOTLIGHT: Ebola outbreak in West Africa 

Suspected Boko Haram attacks kidnap 100 women, children in Nigeria

Armed groups recruit 10,000 child soldiers in Central African Republic - NGO

• SPOTLIGHT: Central African Republic troubles

MIDDLE EAST

Yemeni women fear Houthis are restricting freedoms

• SPOTLIGHT: Yemen clashes

LATIN AMERICA 

Colombia rejects FARC's verification demand for ceasefire

• SPOTLIGHT: 50 years of Colombia's FARC

CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change could cut world food output 18 pct by 2050

Tropical deforestation threatens global food production 

Peru's waste recyclers win bottle ban battle

 

 

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