Archive for September 2nd, 2025

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02/09/2025

“The day I got my land papers, I felt peace”

Human Wrongs Watch

By Samuel Jegede | The Norwegian Refugee Council*

27 August 2025 — In Nigeria, land is more than property. It is identity, security, and livelihood.

But for many women and displaced people, especially in regions affected by conflict, land is also a source of uncertainty, dispute and exclusion.

Sarah stands in front of her farm. She now has a document that secures her tenure for this land, and even her children can use it when needed. Photo: Kumbo Dung/NRC

With no formal documents to prove ownership, many live in fear of losing the little they have.

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02/09/2025

Across the World, Wars Are Targeting Health Workers, Hospitals, Ambulances in ‘Horrifying Numbers’

Human Wrongs Watch

By the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)*

UNITED NATIONS, New York – Across the world, wars are being waged on the very systems set up to protect civilian populations: Health workers, hospitals, health centres and ambulances are being targeted in horrifying numbers.

Medical workers, a UN vehicle and an ambulance are seen amid dug up dirt and debris against a setting sun
On 30 March 2025, a rescue operation in Tal Al Sultan, Rafah, Gaza, recovered the bodies of 15 humanitarian workers from the Palestine Red Crescent Society, the Palestinian Civil Defense and the United Nations. The available information indicates that they were killed by Israeli forces on 23 March and buried under the sand.

Attacks against health facilities doubled between 2023 and 2024, and more than 900 health workers were killed last year.

Humanitarian aid workers dedicated to supporting the most vulnerable in multiple crises were also killed in record numbers in 2024. Yet 2025 is outpacing even these dark statistics.

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02/09/2025

Cutting Children’s Lifelines

Human Wrongs Watch

By UNICEF*

Decades of progress on tackling malnutrition are under threat from funding cuts.

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Yemen. A mother holds her young daughter as she awaits health screenings and vaccinations at a mobile clinic.
 
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Malnutrition is deadly. A child suffering from severe acute malnutrition is nine times more likely to die than a well-nourished child.

But the dire consequences of malnutrition aren’t always immediate or visible from the outside.

Poor diets also inflict devastating damage on the inside, stunting children’s growth, impairing their brain development and leaving them susceptible to disease.  

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02/09/2025

Sexual Violence Against Women, Children in War ‘Strategic’ and Growing

Human Wrongs Watch

By Naomi Myint Breuer

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 25 2025 (IPS)* –– Sexual violence against women and children during wars should not be considered collateral damage. “It is strategy, it is systematic, and it is used more and more,” Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations (UN) Christina Markus Lassen said.
 
Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, briefs the Security Council during the meeting on women, peace and security. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, briefs the Security Council during the meeting on women, peace and security. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Lassen was speaking at the August 19 Security Council meeting on Women and Peace and Security after the 16th annual Report of the Secretary-General on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence revealed a 25 percent increase in conflict-related sexual violence from the previous year and concerning global trends on the use of sexual violence as a form of torture and against prisoners of war.

Women and girls made up 92 percent of the victims; sexual violence against children increased by 35 percent, the report, which was published on August 14 said.

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