Archive for September 28th, 2025

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28/09/2025

‘New, Deadly Floods Displace over 100,000 in South Sudan; Conflict and Funding Cuts Impede Aid’

Human Wrongs Watch

By the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)*

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR Representative in South Sudan, Marie-Helene Verney – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at 12 September 2025 press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
 
Adults carry children and belongings along a waterlogged road.

People displaced by flooding carry children and belongings along a waterlogged road in Bentui, South Sudan, in July 2024.© UNHCR/Tiksa Negeri

South Sudan has been swept into a new cycle of severe flooding, just as renewed conflict threatens a fragile peace, leaving communities in some of the country’s most flood- and conflict-prone states exposed to a double crisis, warns UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

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28/09/2025

From Drought to Deluge: WMO Highlights Increasingly Erratic Water Cycle

Human Wrongs Watch

By the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)*

18 September 2025 — The water cycle has become increasingly erratic and extreme, swinging between deluge and drought, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It highlights the cascading impacts of too much or too little water on economies and society.
Rocky cliffs rise above a partially frozen turquoise lake with floating ice and patches of snow under a clear blue sky.

The State of Global Water Resources report says only about one-third of the global river basins had “normal” conditions in 2024. The rest were either above or below normal – the sixth consecutive year of clear imbalance.

2024 was the third straight year with widespread glacier loss across all regions.

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28/09/2025

UN at 80: Civil Society Must Have a Say in the Struggle for Renewal

Human Wrongs Watch

By Andrew Firmin*

LONDON, Sep 26 2025 (IPS)** –– As the high-level opening week of the UN General Assembly unfolds, with heads of states delivering often self-serving speeches from the UN’s podium, the organisation is undergoing one of its worst set of crises since its founding 80 years ago.
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A view of the podium and the United Nations emblem in the General Assembly Hall. Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe

This year’s General Assembly – ostensibly focused on development, human rights and peace – comes as wars are raging across multiple continents, climate targets are dangerously being missed and the institution designed to address these global challenges is being hollowed out by funding cuts and political withdrawals.

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