22 September 2025 — Deep in the forest in Venezuela’s Bolivar state, residents live in fear of horrific violence at the hands of armed groups involved in the illicit gold trade.
During a 2020 investigation, a 17-year-old boy told Human Rights Watch how he witnessed members of a Venezuelan armed group amputating both hands of a miner they accused of stealing gold. Summary executions and forced child labor by armed groups is still happening today.
(UN News)* —Women and girls still reeling from Afghanistan’s deadly earthquake face even greater suffering rebuilding their lives and livelihoods – with little help to hand, gender equality agency UN Women said on Friday [].
UNOCHA/Ahmad Khalid Khaliqi | People who lost their homes in the earthquake which struck eastern Afghanistan are temporarily living in tents.
“While the major aftershocks have passed, or have mostly passed, women in affected areas are facing a long-term disaster without more urgent assistance,” said Susan Ferguson, UN Women Special Representative in Afghanistan.
One woman rescuer supported by the UN agency described “scrambling” along the sides of mountains, “dodging falling rocks every time there was an aftershock”, Ms. Ferguson told journalists in Geneva.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Sep 19 2025 (IPS)** –Thousands of Afghans who fled to the USA when the Taliban took over in August 2021 now face the prospect of deportation to countries they’ve never been to.
Credit: Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters via Gallo Images
People who risked everything to escape persecution, often because they helped US forces, now find themselves treated as unwanted cargo under the Trump administration’s anti-migration policy.
Trump’s expanded deportation programme targets an estimated 10 million foreign-born people who live in the USA but lack proper legal documentation.
16 September 2025 —WHO/Europe’s new report “Health workforce migration in the WHO European Region: country case studies from Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Ireland, Malta, Moldova, Norway, Romania and Tajikistan” offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of health worker mobility across the Region.
Drawing on data from National Health Workforce Accounts, as well as detailed case studies from 9 countries, it highlights the patterns, flows and scale of the Region’s health workforce migration.
Between 2014 and 2023, the number of foreign-trained doctors working in the Region grew by 58%, and foreign-trained nurses by 67%.
(UN News)* —A senior UN humanitarian official in Pakistan has warned that “the needs are huge” as massive floods across Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan continue to leave millions homeless, destroying vital crops and pushing fragile communities to the brink.
More than six million people have been affected since the unusually heavy monsoon rains began in late June, with nearly 1,000 lives lost – 250 of them children.
Around 2.5 million people have been displaced, many sheltering in Government-run camps or with host families who are already stretched to their limit.
Remarks by UNICEF Country Representative in Afghanistan, Dr. Tajudeen Oyewale, as delivered in the media briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
KABUL, 12 September 2025 (UNICEF)* – “Afghanistan is once again reeling from tragedy and children are at the sharp end of an aggravating crisis. We must respond not only with urgency, but with a commitment to immediately reverse it.
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“They are bearing the heaviest burden after a powerful earthquake struck Kunar and Nangarhar provinces on 31 August, in the Eastern part of the country, followed by multiple severe aftershocks.“
The impact so far is devastating. At least 1,172 children have died, making more than half of the entire death toll. In addition, 45 children have been separated from their families, and 271 are newly orphaned.
(UN News)* —As bombs continue to fall on Gaza City as part of Israel’s intensifying military operation, families with starving children are being pushed southwards from one “hellscape” to another, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday [].
The development followed reports that the Israeli military has stepped up its ground offensive in Gaza City, ordering residents to leave the area.
Speaking from the south of the enclave, UNICEF’s Tess Ingram described the forced mass displacement of families as a “deadly threat for the most vulnerable”.
“It is inhumane to expect nearly half a million children battered and traumatized by over 700 days of unrelenting conflict to flee one hellscape to end up in another,” she insisted.
16 September 2025 — Greece’s Migration Minister Thanos Plevris recently announced his intention to adopt new measures to silence criticism of the government’s migration policies.
The move, which came in the wake of a victory by civil society groups at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), is part of the Greek government’s broader assault on civil society and is likely to worsen the already hostile environmentfor nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), particularly those working on migration.
PORTLAND, USA, Sep 15 2025 (IPS)** –Most of the population in this country wants immigrants, but the current government does not share the same sentiment.
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Opinion polls show that the majority of the U.S. population holds positive views on immigration. Credit: Shutterstock.
The country in question is the United States, often referred to as “a nation of immigrants”, home to more immigrants than any other country worldwide, having received over 100 million immigrants since its founding in 1776.
Opinion polls show that the majority of the U.S. population holds positive views on immigration.
(UN News)* — “Underfunded, overstretched and under attack” is how the United Nation’s top aid official has referred to the UN and the support it is providing to the humanitarian sector.
Speaking on Monday [] to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York, Tom Fletcher, who heads up the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said “we have only 19 per cent of what we need.”
The international community is currently dealing with multiple humanitarian crises across the world, including conflict-driven crises in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen.
Other crisis hotspots includeAfghanistan, Haiti, Myanmar and the Sahel.
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