Archive for September 24th, 2025

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24/09/2025

‘Environmental Damage in Gaza Strip Harming Human Health, Threatening Long-Term Food and Water Security’

Human Wrongs Watch

By the UN Environment Programme*

Nairobi, 23 September 2025 – Two years of escalating conflict have caused unprecedented levels of environmental damage in the Gaza Strip, damaging its soils, freshwater supplies and coastline, finds a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Photo credit: UNRWA Photo by Ashraf Amra

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24/09/2025

Health Workers Lose Support Structures and Pregnant Women Die: The Reality of Funding Cuts Hits in Yemen

Human Wrongs Watch

By the UN Population Fund*

HADRAMAUT/HAJJAH/TAI’Z GOVERNORATES, Yemen, 15 September 2025 – “The patient was in her third trimester and arrived with severe bleeding,” said Ms. Akaber, a community midwife from the Ku’aydinah District, in Yemen’s northwestern Hajjah Governorate. “I provided assistance, but the baby was already dead.” 
A midwife from a UNFPA mobile health clinic assesses a pregnant woman at a displacement camp in Marib, Yemen. The mobile clinic is no longer operational due to funding cuts. ©UNFPA Yemen
A midwife from a UNFPA mobile health clinic assesses a pregnant woman at a displacement camp in Marib, Yemen. The mobile clinic is no longer operational due to funding cuts. ©UNFPA Yemen

The patient was Hanan Wahan, a 25-year-old mother of three who was nine months pregnant. She experienced complications during an attempted home birth, and Ms. Akaber urged her husband to bring her to the district hospital, hoping they could save her life.

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24/09/2025

Haiti’s Security Crisis ‘Is Like the Sword of Damocles above Us’

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)*  — Foreign Ministers from across the Americas met on the margins of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday [] to rally for greater support for Haiti. 

A mother sits with her child at a site for displaced people in Haiti. (file)
© UNICEF/Maxime Le Lijour | A mother sits with her child at a site for displaced people in Haiti. (file)

The Caribbean country remains in the grip of a deepening multidimensional crisis affecting the political, security, human rights and humanitarian spheres, with implications for the region.

Armed gangs control large swathes of the territory, more than six million people are in urgent need of assistance, and 1.4 million have fled their homes, mainly women and children.

Killings and abductions are rampant, while cases of sexual and gender-based violence have significantly increased.

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