Archive for November 14th, 2025

14/11/2025

Gaza: War Has Made Children Violent, Sad and Bereft

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — More than nine in 10 children in Gaza are displaying signs of aggressive behaviour linked to more than two years of war between Hamas and Israel, welfare agencies have reported. 

A girl looks over the destruction of Gaza City.
© WFP/Maxime Le Lijour | A girl looks over the destruction of Gaza City.
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Issuing a warning that the children’s sense of stability and security has been eroded as key everyday services have collapsed, humanitarians insist that young Gazans will need “sustained, long-term efforts to recover.”

According to child safety partner assessments conducted in September, shared by the UN aid coordination office (OCHA), 93 per cent exhibited aggressive behaviour and 90 per cent were violent towards younger children.

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14/11/2025

From Haiti to Ethiopia: Voices of Climate Displacement at COP30

Human Wrongs Watch

By Felipe de Carvalho, in Belém

(UN News)* — Floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms are forcing millions from their homes every year. Most never cross a border; they remain internally displaced yet uprooted all the same. But experts warn that in the not-so-distant future, entire nations could disappear beneath rising seas or become uninhabitable through drought.

Natural disasters trigger the displacement of millions of people each year.
IOM/Muse Mohammed | Natural disasters trigger the displacement of millions of people each year.

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14/11/2025

Families Across Mauritania Attempt to Rebuild Their Lives Between Flood and Drought

Human Wrongs Watch

By Alessandro Lira | The International Organization for Migration*

Woumpou, Mauritania – On a humid October afternoon in Woumpou, Kadia stands where her front yard used to be. Around her, the ground is still damp, the air thick with the smell of mud.

She points to a dark line along her neighbors’ walls – a mark left by the floods that came without warning. Families had only minutes to escape before the water swallowed everything.

“Everything happened so fast,” she says. “We lost everything in a matter of hours.”

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