Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Around 1.5 million Jamaicans have been impacted by Hurricane Melissa – the worst climate disaster in the Caribbean nation’s history, said the top UN development official in the region on Thursday [].
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06/11/2025
Report Provides 10 New Insights in Climate Science
Human Wrongs Watch
5 November 2025 — On the eve of the UN climate change negotiations in Brazil, a new report delivers a stark assessment of the planet’s climate and an urgent call to step up global action.
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The 10 New Insights in Climate Science highlights a worrying acceleration in climate change indicators and impacts on health and livelihoods.
It underscores that effective, equitable, and science-informed policy remains the most powerful tool to safeguard both people and the planet.
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06/11/2025
World’s Forests at Serious Risk from Warming Planet, Fires and Pests
Human Wrongs Watch
Decades of progress in protecting the planet’s carbon dioxide-busting forests are at risk as the climate crisis continues to accelerate, UN forestry experts said on Wednesday [].
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05/11/2025
When Sovereignty Becomes a Threat
Human Wrongs Watch
By Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service*
For decades, the United States has punished nations that dared to act independently. From Venezuela to the Sahel, a new generation is rejecting the old empire’s script.
The mask has fallen. In a moment of verbal violence reminiscent of an old western, U.S. president Donald Trump openly called for the “removal” of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, accusing Venezuela of “threatening American interests, or supporting drug cartels.”
Let us be clear: this is not mere rhetoric. It is an explicit call for the murder of a sovereign head of state—a flagrant violation of international law.
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05/11/2025
“We escaped hell, but we arrived in another one”
Human Wrongs Watch
By Nathan Carey, NRC Senior Policy and Advocacy Adviser | The Norwegian Refugee Council*
5 November 2025 — Just back from South Sudan, Nathan Carey recounts the scenes in Renk, where refugees escaping Sudan’s brutal conflict find themselves trapped again, this time by hunger, disease, and neglect.
Life in Renk Transit Centre. Photo: Richard Ashton/NRC
The heat in Renk hits like a wall. By midday, the air is heavy and unrelenting, the sun glaring down on the endless line of trucks pulling up to the South Sudan border.
I was there when 17 trucks arrived from Sudan, each packed with exhausted and terrified people.
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04/11/2025
FAO Warns of ‘Silent Crisis’ as Land Degradation Threatens Billions
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Roughly 1.7 billion people are living in areas where crop yields are failing due to human-induced land degradation – “a pervasive and silent crisis that is undermining agricultural productivity and threatening ecosystem health worldwide.”
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04/11/2025
Nearly 6 Million People in the Caribbean Impacted by Hurricane Melissa
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Some six million people have been affected by the category five hurricane which swept across the Caribbean last week, prompting UN agencies to scale up relief operations to safeguard livelihoods and reduce further losses.
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04/11/2025
‘The Environment Has Often Remained the Unpublicized Victim of War’
Human Wrongs Watch
By the United Nations*
A Nepalese peacekeeper with the African Union-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) plants a tree outside UNAMID Headquarters in El Fasher, Sudan. PHOTO:UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran
Furthermore, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found that over the last 60 years, at least 40 percent of all internal conflicts have been linked to the exploitation of natural resources, whether high-value resources such as timber, diamonds, gold and oil, or scarce resources such as fertile land and water.
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04/11/2025
US Threatens to Resume Nuclear Testing while Past Tests Have Devastated Victims Worldwide
Human Wrongs Watch
– The lingering after-effects of nuclear tests by the world’s nuclear powers have left a devastating impact on hundreds and thousands of victims world-wide.
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The first USSR nuclear test “Joe 1” at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, 29 August 1949. Credit: CTBTO
The history of nuclear testing, according to the United Nations, began 16 July 1945 at a desert test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico when the United States exploded its first atomic bomb.
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02/11/2025
Climate Inaction Is Claiming Millions of Lives Every Year, Warns New Lancet Countdown Report
Human Wrongs Watch
By the World Health Organization*
– WHO and global partners are calling for the protection of people’s health to be recognized as the most powerful driver of climate action, as a new global report released on 29 October 2025 warns that continued overreliance on fossil fuels and failure to adapt to a heating world are already having a devastating toll on human health.
WHO / Nitsebiho Asrat
The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, produced in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), finds that 12 of 20 key indicators tracking health threats have reached record levels, showing how climate inaction is costing lives, straining health systems, and undermining economies.
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