Archive for August 29th, 2025

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29/08/2025

Latin America and Caribbean: Millions More Children Could Face Poverty Due to Climate Change

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Climate change could push at least 5.9 million more children and young people in Latin America and the Caribbean into poverty by 2030 unless governments act now. 

 

Children play on the banks of the River Negro, a tributary of the Amazon River in northwestern Brazil.
United Nations/Rodolpho Valente | Children play on the banks of the River Negro, a tributary of the Amazon River in northwestern Brazil.

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29/08/2025

Intensified Legal, Political, and Grassroots Battles Over Amazon Oil Expansion

Human Wrongs Watch

By Umar Manzoor Shah

A report ‘Oil and Gas Expansion in the Colombian Amazon: Navigating Risks, Economics, and Pathways to a Sustainable Future, warns oil and gas projects threaten over 483,000 km² of Colombian Amazon forest, home to more than 70 indigenous groups, and risk becoming stranded assets as global fossil fuel demand declines.
 
A report ‘Oil and Gas Expansion in the Colombian Amazon: Navigating Risks, Economics, and Pathways to a Sustainable Future, warns oil and gas projects threaten over 483,000 km² of Colombian Amazon forest, home to more than 70 indigenous groups, and risk becoming stranded assets as global fossil fuel demand declines.

BOGOTÁ and SRINAGAR, India, Aug 27 2025 (IPS)* –– A report has warned about the risks of expanding oil and gas exploration in the Colombian Amazon, which may undermine environmental goals, Indigenous rights, and long-term economic stability, unless the government pivots toward sustainable development pathways.

The study, “Oil and Gas Expansion in the Colombian Amazon: Navigating Risks, Economics, and Pathways to a Sustainable Future”, lays out the stakes for one of the planet’s most biodiverse and climate-critical regions.

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29/08/2025

“Where is the world watching what’s happening to us, and to our children? All families in the world have children”

Human Wrongs Watch

By the United Nations Population Fund*

Gaza – pregnant women and newborns at acute risk… mothers all too often eat last and least. 

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A woman feeds her children in front of their tent in a displacement camp
A woman feeds her children in front of their tent in a displacement camp in western Gaza City. © UNFPA Palestine/Hardy Skills.

GAZA STRIP, Occupied Palestinian Territory, 25 August 2025 – “Where is the world watching what’s happening to us, and to our children? All families in the world have children,” said Inas, who lives in a displacement camp with her three children in Gaza city – where famine has been confirmed for the first time. 

“Would they accept their children waking up hungry?”

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