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Lima, Feb 25 (EFE).- (Camera: Mikhail Huacán/File) Defending human rights in Peru and participating in protests have claimed the lives of 220 people, while almost a thousand have been criminalized, according to a report published this Thursday by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OBS).FOOTAGE OF PROTESTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN PERU
Panama, Feb 18 (EFE) .- The Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Uruguayan Luis Almagro, called on Tuesday for humanitarian aid for "7 million people who are at risk of hunger" in Venezuela.(CAMERA: Bienvenido Velasco)IMAGES: RESOURCES AND DECLARATIONS OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF OAS, LUIS ALMAGRO"It would be hard for me (to describe) the conditions of the Venezuelan dictatorship, of the 5 million migrants and the 7 million who are at risk of hunger; of the thousands who have been tortured; of the relatives of the 14,000 political prisoners during recent years in Venezuela, in a system of broken doors"
At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi says, "Today we pass the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan, following the beginning of the conflict." He also says that the number of people now internally displaced in the conflict torn nation is now at two million. SOUNDBITE
Russia's war on Ukraine has displaced "over seven million people," EU commissioner for crisis management Janez Lenarcic says at a press conference in Brussels after a meeting of EU interior ministers focused on the refugee flow out of Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir pledges he would not return the country to war, in a speech marking 10 troubled years of independence. The world's newest nation, South Sudan declared independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011. Just two years later it was plunged into a devastating civil war that claimed almost 400,000 lives and displaced four million people. SOUNDBITE
CNN reports seven million GM pickups and SUVs worldwide are being recalled. The recall centers on a defect in Japanese airbags made by now-bankrupt Takata. The defect caused the bags to explode, spraying shrapnel through the vehicle. The GM vehicles have airbags also made by Takata, which are linked to at least 17 deaths in the United States. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ordered the US recall on Monday. NHTSA rejected GM's longstanding argument that this version of the airbags didn't need to be replaced.
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