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30/06/2025

“I gave birth on the ground at the camp with the help of a woman. She is still asking me for money because I couldn’t pay her”

Human Wrongs Watch

By the UN Population Fund*

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 27 June 2025 – “I gave birth on the ground at the camp with the help of a woman. She is still asking me for money because I couldn’t pay her,” 18-year-old Jeanette* told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.  

On a road with cars at trucks, people flee in near darkness carrying belongings on their heads, mountains visible in the background
With 1.3 million people displaced, many communities facing catastrophic hunger and sexual violence and the health system all but collapsed, the crisis gripping Haiti has been described as at risk of “reaching a point of no return.” © UNHCR/Juan Pablo Terminello

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30/06/2025

Millions Go Hungry– While Billions Worth of Food Go into Landfills

Human Wrongs Watch

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 22 2022 (IPS)* – The ominous warnings keep coming non-stop: some of the world’s developing nations, mostly in Africa and Asia, are heading towards mass hunger and starvation.
 

Credit: World Food Programme (WFP)

The World Food Programme (WFP) warned last week that as many as 828 million people go to bed hungry every night while the number of those facing acute food insecurity has soared — from 135 million to 345 million — since 2019. A total of 50 million people in 45 countries are teetering on the edge of famine.

But in what seems like a cruel paradox the US Department of Agriculture estimates that a staggering $161 billion worth of food is dumped yearly into landfills in the United States.

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