Archive for August 16th, 2025

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16/08/2025

Southern Voices: Grief, Resilience, and Daily Life in Jnoub

Human Wrongs Watch

By Eliane Eid

JNOUB, Lebanon, Aug 15 2025 (IPS)* –– “Special, targeted operations in southern Lebanon,” a phrase that has echoed repeatedly over the past two years in Israeli Defence Force (IDF) statements.
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But behind these clinical military terms lies a human cost that statistics cannot capture.

Morning after an Israeli attack in Tyre, Lebanon. Credit: Nour

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The residents of southern Lebanon—mothers, fathers, children, and elders—are the ones who face the daily reality of displacement, loss, and uncertainty.

Their homes become coordinates on military maps; their neighborhoods, theaters of “operations.”

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16/08/2025

‘The Wild West’: Desperation Is Rampant in Haiti as Gangs, Vigilantes Spread

Human Wrongs Watch

By Naima Sawaya

It’s this vicious cycle that as long as the institutions are still so weak, you have the Wild West like in old American movies, where the sheriff is the judge, jury and executioner, all in one.

A UN staff member tours a building targeted by gangs in Port-au-Prince.
© UNICEF/Herold Joseph | A UN staff member tours a building targeted by gangs in Port-au-Prince.

(UN News)* — With armed gangs expanding their influence, self-defence groups morphing into gang-like entities and public officials acting with impunity, Haiti is slowly becoming something like the Wild West, according to William O’Neill, the UN’s designated expert on human rights forthe Caribbean island nation.

And if you ask Mr. O’Neill what is creating conditions akin to the Wild West, the answer is desperation.

With over 1.3 million Haitians displaced and half of the country going hungry, desperation is not some abstract idea in Haiti — it is a lived reality.  

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16/08/2025

UN Warns of Steep Rise in Sexual Violence during Conflicts

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Sexual violence in conflict zones rose sharply in 2024, increasing by a quarter compared to the previous year, the UN reported on Thursday [].

More than 4,600 survivors endured abuses used as weapons of war, torture, terrorism and political repression.

Conflict-related sexual violence continues to be used as a weapon of war.
© UNICEF/Tess Ingram | Conflict-related sexual violence continues to be used as a weapon of war.

Women and girls made up 92% of victims, but men, boys, people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, racial and ethnic minorities – together with some persons with disabilities – were also targeted, ranging in age from one to 75.

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