{"id":41801,"date":"2022-03-18T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jww.org\/?p=41801"},"modified":"2022-03-16T22:23:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T22:23:02","slug":"tigray-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/tigray-500\/","title":{"rendered":"500 days of war in Tigray"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"41801\" class=\"elementor elementor-41801\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-569353b5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"569353b5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-131fc622\" data-id=\"131fc622\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6db2784e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6db2784e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Today marks 500 days since violence in the Tigray region began. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives, and more than 6.8 million need food aid.<\/p><p>While the international attention is on the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine, it is easy to lose sight of atrocities occurring in so many places worldwide. These conflicts do not happen in a vacuum. The Ukraine crisis could lead to a 22% increase in food costs that will directly impact Tigray&#8217;s ongoing famine.<\/p><p>Aid workers need fuel and road access to deliver food to those starving and medical supplies to women subjected to sexual violence.<\/p><p>As these crises worsen, improved diplomatic engagement with international powers is crucial. The world must establish strict, uniform conditions to remove sanctions on Ethiopia if the government allows unfettered humanitarian access.<\/p><p>Let your elected officials know that supporting the innocent people impacted by this conflict matters to you by sending the pre-written emails below.<\/p><p>Message #1: <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.jww.org\/a\/hr6600\">Please co-sponsor H.R. 6600 in the House of Representatives<\/a><\/p><p>Message #2: <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.jww.org\/a\/s3199\">Please co-sponsor S. 3199 in the Senate<\/a><\/p><p>Thank you for taking action<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks 500 days since violence in the Tigray region began. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives, and more than 6.8 million need food aid. While the international attention is on the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine, it is easy to lose sight of atrocities occurring in so many places worldwide. These conflicts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,188],"tags":[605,513,155,159,160],"class_list":["post-41801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news-features","tag-america-competes-act","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-forced-labor","tag-jewish-world-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41810,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41801\/revisions\/41810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}