Archive for November 17th, 2025

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17/11/2025

European Banks Pour Nearly €8 Billion a Year into Critical Minerals Mining Despite Links to Human Rights and Environmental Abuses

Human Wrongs Watch

By OXFAM International*

Meanwhile, the EU rolls back and weakens its sustainability and green rules

17 November 2025 — New Oxfam, Fair Finance International and 11.11.11. report exposes how Europe’s banks and investors are blindly investing in mining companies linked to land grabs, pollution and human rights violations.

This comes ahead of the EU’s Raw Materials Week.  

The report, “Financing Critical Minerals but Failing Critical Safeguards”, finds that Europe’s drive to secure critical raw materials needed for the green transition inadvertently fuels human rights abuses and environmental harm.

 
 

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17/11/2025

Healing the Hidden Wounds of Childbirth

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — In Somalia, where six out of ten births take place without a doctor, childbirth is often a matter of survival. 

A patient recovering from fistula repair surgery is examined at Dayniile Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

© UNFPA/Usame Nur Hussein | A patient recovering from fistula repair surgery is examined at Dayniile Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

For women like 38-year-old Farhiya from rural Beletweyne, the consequences can be devastating — a painful obstetric fistula, a hole in the birth canal that left her incontinent, isolated, and cut off from her community.

“I was stressed, constantly worried, and isolated from my community. I was living in my house as if I had some sort of contagious disease,” she said.

In Somalia, 6 out of 10 births occur without a doctor present, which often leads to childbirth complications like obstetric fistula.

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17/11/2025

Lebanon: UN Peacekeeping Patrol Targeted by Israeli Tank, IDF Blames ‘Misidentification’

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — On Sunday [], a foot patrol of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was targeted by an Israeli army Merkava tank from an Israeli position in Lebanese territory.
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According to the UN peacekeeping mission, bursts of heavy artillery hit an area just five meters away from the UNIFIL blue helmets, who had to quickly retreat and take shelter in the terrain.
UNIFIL peacekeepers on patrol (file)
© UNIFIL | UNIFIL peacekeepers on patrol (file)

Mission representatives were able to contact the IDF (Israeli Defence Force) via their communications channels and ask them to stop firing, UNIFIL explained in a press release. The patrol was able to leave safely half an hour later, when the tank withdrew to IDF positions.

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