Staff (2024-08-30). Hostages Forum slams Netanyahu over decision to keep army on Philadelphi route. haaretz.com Senior WHO official says Israeli army agreed to humanitarian pauses in Gaza fighting for polio vaccine campaign ‚ñ Iran further increased stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels, UN watchdog says ‚ñ EU's top diplomat invites member states to weigh sanctioning Israeli ministers for advocating war crimes ‚ñ 16 killed in West Bank in past day, Palestinian health ministry says ‚ñ France's Macron, U.K.'s Starmer reiterate call for 'immediate cease-fire'…

Human Rights Watch (2024-08-29). South Korea's Digital Sex Crime Deepfake Crisis. hrw.org Click to expand Image | South Korean women protest against non-consensual filming and sharing of intimate images on August 4, 2018 in Seoul, South Korea. | © 2018 Jean Chung/Getty Images | South Korea faces an epidemic of digital sex crimes, hundreds of women and girls targeted through deepfake sexual images being shared online. One group sharing these images reportedly has 220,000 members. The number of reported deepfake cases alone has soared from 156 in 2021 to 297 as of July this year.While South Korea's president spoke out this week about this issue, over the years the country's leaders seem to have…

Pressenza Philippines (2024-08-29). Empowering Women: SHE Project Celebrates Five Years of Advancing SRHR and Preventing GBV in Eastern Visayas. pressenza.com by Geri Matthew "Choi" Carretero | Calbayog City, Samar, Philippines — The Subnational Close-Out event for the Sexual Health and Empowerment (SHE) project was successfully held on August 27, 2024, at the Ciriaco Hotel in Calbayog City, Samar, marking the culmination of five years of transformative work in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender-based violence (GBV) prevention. The event, themed "Pasidungog," honored the achievements and contributions of local government units (LGUs), community partners, and key organizations who were instrumental in advancing these critical issues in th…