Archive for June 28th, 2025

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28/06/2025

“I finally felt like we existed”

Human Wrongs Watch

By Shaden Abdulrahman | The Norwegian Refugee Council*

After years of hiding under a false identity, a Syrian father in Jordan reclaims his name and secures a future for his family.

Outside of Salem Al-Ahmed’s tent in Lubban. Photo: Shaden Abdulrahman/NRC

Life in hiding

Salem Al-Ahmad* fled Syria in 2012, using his cousin’s name to escape arrest as a military deserter. Once in Jordan, he was able to register as an asylum seeker and obtain a Ministry of Interior card.

He settled in Al Lubban, west of Amman, where he married Buthainah, a fellow refugee. Together, they had five children: Tasneem, Nidal, Omar, Sinan, and Ameer, all registered under Salem’s assumed name.

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28/06/2025

Gaza: Humanitarian Crisis Reaches ‘Horrific Proportions’

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(UN News)* — UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday [] reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, warning that the humanitarian crisis has reached “horrific proportions” and that the world must not let the suffering of Palestinians be overshadowed by other regional conflicts.

© UNRWA/Ashraf Amra | People search for their belongings in the rubble in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza.

Speaking to reporters at UN Headquarters ahead of his departure to Spain for the International Conference on Financing for Development, the UN Secretary-General said that while the Israel-Iran conflict had dominated recent headlines, the plight of civilians in Gaza remained urgent and dire.

“Families have been displaced again and again – and are now confined to less than one-fifth of Gaza’s land,” he said.

“Even these shrinking spaces are under threat. Bombs are falling – on tents, on families, on those with nowhere left to run.”

 

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28/06/2025

Gaza: ‘Health System Crumbles amid Growing Desperation over Food, Fuel’ – World Health Organization

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(UN News)* — The first delivery earlier this week of urgently needed medical goods to enter Gaza in months will provide scant relief to the enclave’s people, who continue to be shot and killed in their search for food, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday [].

© UNICEF/Mohammed Nateel | Rubbish is often used as stove fuel in the shattered enclave today.

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28/06/2025

New Era of Global Instability Has Empowered Organized Crime Groups, ‘Pushing Drug Use to Historically High Levels’

Human Wrongs Watch

By the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)*

A new era of global instability has intensified challenges in addressing the world drug problem, empowering organized crime groups and pushing drug use to historically high levels, says the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in the World Drug Report 2025 launched on 26 June 2025.

There have been a record number of seizures of amphetamine-type stimulants.
UNODC/Ioulia Kondratovitch | There have been a record number of seizures of amphetamine-type stimulants.

“This edition of the World Drug Report shows that organized drug trafficking groups continue to adapt, exploit global crises, and target vulnerable populations,” said Ghada Waly, Executive Director of UNODC.

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