{"id":4288,"date":"2015-01-09T07:22:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T12:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2015-01-09T07:22:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T12:22:21","slug":"situation-in-ukraine-nearing-humanitarian-catastrophe-amnesty-intl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4288","title":{"rendered":"Situation in Ukraine \u2018nearing humanitarian catastrophe\u2019 \u2013 Amnesty Intl"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/221019-ukraine-humanitarian-catastrophe-amnesty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Situation in Ukraine \u2018nearing humanitarian catastrophe\u2019 \u2013 Amnesty Intl<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Eastern Ukraine is nearing a humanitarian catastrophe, as residents struggle to get food and medicine, rights group Amnesty International told Reuters. The UN refugee watchdog added that the elderly in the region could be severely hit by Kiev\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>People in the southeastern Lugansk and Donetsk regions are struggling financially and are barely scraping by, according to the deputy director of Europe and Central Asia at Amnesty International, Denis Krivosheev.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhile it may be too early to call this a humanitarian catastrophe, it\u2019s clearly progressing in that direction,\u201d<\/em>Krivosheev said, adding that pensioners are the most vulnerable part of the population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/business\/218735-ukraine-crisis-central-bank\/\">READ MORE: Ukraine in \u2018full-blown financial crisis\u2019 \u2013 National Bank head<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) also expressed major concern for the elderly, pointing to Kiev\u2019s dangerous decision to transfer payouts of social benefits and pensions to government-controlled areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Situation in Ukraine \u2018nearing humanitarian catastrophe\u2019 \u2013 Amnesty Intl Eastern Ukraine is nearing a humanitarian catastrophe, as residents struggle to get food and medicine, rights group Amnesty International told Reuters. The UN refugee watchdog added that the elderly in the region could be severely hit by Kiev\u2019s policies. People in the southeastern Lugansk and Donetsk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1963,1610,2521,822,2522],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-amnesty-international","tag-kiev","tag-ukriane","tag-un","tag-unhcr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}