Archive for March 20th, 2025

20/03/2025

Rohingya Children Face an Emergency Within an Emergency

Human Wrongs Watch

By Jimmy Kruglinski and Jason Miks UNICEF*

12 March 2025 — “She can’t sit or walk. And she hasn’t started talking,” Anowara says of 14-month-old Rifa. “I want my baby to smile, walk, and talk.”
 
Bangladesh. A woman prepares a meal for her young daughter.
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Rifa is one of thousands of young children who are dangerously malnourished in the world’s largest refugee settlement, in Cox’s Bazar, southern Bangladesh.

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20/03/2025

Haiti: Violence Triggers Record Displacements in Port-au-Prince: Over 60,000 People in a Month

Human Wrongs Watch

By the International Organization for Migration (IOM)*

Port-au-Prince, 18 March 2025 – In just one month, intense violence has forced over 60,000 people to flee—yet another record in Haiti’s worsening humanitarian situation.

 

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20/03/2025

Gaza: ‘Dramatic Escalation’ as Bombardments Intensify and Displacement Surges

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Israeli bombardments continued across Gaza on Wednesday , killing hundreds more people – many of them women and children – and leaving widespread destruction in its wake, according to local authorities.

Renewed airstrikes have reportedly killed hundreds of people in the Gaza Strip.
© UNICEF | Renewed airstrikes have reportedly killed hundreds of people in the Gaza Strip.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that leaflets were dropped over Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in the shattered-north, as well as eastern Khan Younis in the south, ordering residents once again to leave their homes.

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