Archive for May 12th, 2025

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12/05/2025

Measles Cases Are Spiking Globally – UNICEF

Human Wrongs Watch

(UNICEF)* — Measles is a highly contagious virus. For young children, it can be deadly. In too many places, low vaccination coverage is creating opportunities for measles to spread.

Eight month old Fatema receives a vaccine at a mobile immunization clinic in Jordon.
UNICEF/UNI578946/Saleh Elaiwa

Over the last five years, measles outbreaks have hit over 100 countries, home to roughly three-quarters of the world’s children.

But we know how to stop it. Measles vaccines are safe and effective. They are the best way to protect children from getting sick with measles and spreading it to others.

As measles cases surge, here are five things you need to know:

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12/05/2025

Indigenous Communities Near Panama Canal Have a Bigger Problem than Trump

Human Wrongs Watch

By Mary Triny Zea

8 May 2025 (openDemocracy)* — Since entering office in January, Donald Trump’s repeated threats to seize control of the Panama Canal, a critical passage for global freight traffic, have dominated headlines around the world. | ESPAÑOL

“Respect our land”, one of many the signs rejecting the planned reservoir on the road to the community of Limón de Chagres, in Colón province, Panamá | Pich Urdaneta / Dialogue Earth

But two hours west of Panama City, 12,000 locals have a more pressing concern: their government plans to flood their lands and relocate them to create an artificial lake to ensure water supply to the canal.

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12/05/2025

“Migrants Crossing the Darien Jungle Face Constant Dangers, Such as Sexual Violence, Human Trafficking, Robbery, Extortion, and Disappearances”

Human Wrongs Watch

By UN Human Rights*

Monitoring in Motion for Migrants in the Darien Gap

8 May 2025 — The Darien jungle on the border between Panama and Colombia is a labyrinth of rivers, filled with wild animals and oppressive, humid heat that envelops everything. It is a transit and destination route for migrants and asylum seekers, where fear, despair, and danger are constant.

A muddy path through a forest.

© GETTY IMAGES/RCHPHOTO

It is also the main entry point for people heading towards Canada, Mexico and the United States of America. Yet, the greatest danger does not come from nature itself, but from traffickers and criminals who prey on people on the move.

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