Archive for December 10th, 2025

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10/12/2025

US: Close Fort Bliss Immigration Detention Site

Human Wrongs Watch

By Human Rights Watch*

Allegations of Inhumane Conditions, Sexual Abuse, Deportation Threats

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Protesters opposing mass deportations by ICE hold signs during a protest held at Fort Bliss, the US Army base where a large new ICE detention facility is being built, in El Paso, Texas, August 17, 2025. © 2025 REUTERS/Paul Ratje

(Washington, DC) – Human rights groups on 8 December 2025 urged US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to end immigration detention at Camp East Montana, a massive tent camp at the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas.

In their letter, advocates summarized accounts of horrific conditions, including beatings and sexual abuse by officers against detained immigrants, beatings and coercive threats to compel deportation to third countries, medical neglect, hunger and insufficient food, and denial of meaningful access to counsel, among other rights violations.

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10/12/2025

Gaza’s Babies ‘Scarred by War Before First Breath’ by Malnutrition

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(UN News)* — Mothers who’ve been left starving in Gaza are now giving birth to underweight or premature babies who die in intensive care units or struggle to survive as they endure acute malnutrition, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday [].

 
A newborn at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Aid agencies say that Israeli aid restrictions have depleted hospitals and "starved and stressed" mothers.
© UNFPA/Bisan Ouda | A newborn at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Aid agencies say that Israeli aid restrictions have depleted hospitals and “starved and stressed” mothers.

Speaking from the shattered enclave, UNICEF Communication Manager Tess Ingram said that at least 165 children are reported to have died “painful, preventable deaths” related to malnutrition during the war between Hamas fighters and Israel.

A lesser-known scourge is acute hunger among pregnant and breastfeeding women and “the devastating domino effect” of this lack of a healthy diet on thousands of newborns.

 

 

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10/12/2025

‘All we want for Sudan is peace’ Say Children Fleeing Violence

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(UN News)* — Nahed was visiting Sudan’s capital Khartoum with her family to celebrate Eid, a major Islamic holiday, when the war broke out between the rival armies vying for control of her homeland.
 
A woman walks through a camp for people who fled violence in North Darfur.
© UNICEF/Mohammed Jamal | A woman walks through a camp for people who fled violence in North Darfur.

Only 16 at the time, she saw armed men attacking her village and killing people – her grandfather and uncle among them. Girls were raped or taken.

“Nahed managed to escape but said it was terrifying,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell who described Nahed’s story on Tuesday [].

“The chilling memories remain.”

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