Archive for November 19th, 2025

19/11/2025

Ending World Hunger Costs Less than 1% of Military Spending

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

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A woman in the eastern DR Congo, who was forced to flee her home, due to violence works on a smallholding.
© WFP/Benjamin Anguandia | A woman in the eastern DR Congo, who was forced to flee her home, due to violence works on a smallholding.

By 2026 a staggering 318 million people would face crisis levels of hunger or worse, more than double the figure recorded in 2019, the food agency reported in its 2026 Global Outlook.

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19/11/2025

Terrorism in Africa, a ‘Growing Global Threat’

Human Wrongs Watch

 (UN News)* — Expanding terrorist networks, mass displacement and the collapse of essential services in West Africa and the Sahel are a growing concern worldwide.

A Nigerien soldier guards a strategic location in Ouallam, Niger.
UN News/Daniel Dickinson | A Nigerien soldier guards a strategic location in Ouallam, Niger.

That’s according to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres who told the Security Council on Monday that the growth in terrorist groups was “not only a regional dramatic reality.”

“Progressive links of its groups in Africa and beyond make it a growing global threat.”

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19/11/2025

“Regime Change” in Venezuela Is Euphemism for U.S.-inflicted Carnage and Chaos

Human Wrongs Watch

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service*

For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth—it instead brings death, dismemberment, and despair.

A United Socialist Party rally in Caracas, 3 Aug 2024. Photo: Morning Star

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