Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Synthetic drugs are rapidly transforming the global drug trade, fuelling an escalating public health crisis, according to the UN administered International Narcotics Control Board (INCB).
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04/03/2025
‘Rapid Expansion’ of Synthetic Drugs Reshaping Illicit Markets, UN Anti-Narcotics Body Warns
03/03/2025
‘A Litany of Human Suffering’ in Myanmar, Warns UN Rights Chief
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Myanmar is mired in one of the world’s worst human rights crises, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on said, describing conditions there as “a litany of human suffering.”
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02/03/2025
Imperialism, Globalisation and Its Discontents*
Human Wrongs Watch
– Imperialism continues to dominate the world. Globalisation is losing to some of its anti-theses, but imperialism still rules, increasingly by law, albeit in changing even contradictory ways.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Hence, we live in challenging times. It is often difficult to see the main challenges we face as there seem to be so many.
Also, the new or the unusual gains far more attention than what appears commonplace.
Power and empire
Our histories and cultures are often quite different despite our common, but varied experiences of foreign domination, even rule.
Such power involves varied mixes of socioeconomic and political relations, involving governance and even the rule of law.
Our world has seen empires and imperialism for over two millennia, at least from before the time of Jesus Christ in Palestine, who had to deal with the satraps of the Roman empire then.
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02/03/2025
Alarming Trends in Nuclear Material Trafficking Highlight Urgent Security Gaps
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — There were just under 150 incidents of illegal or unauthorised activity involving nuclear and other radioactive material reported last year, according to the international nuclear energy watchdog’s monitoring database tracking these incidents.
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01/03/2025
Ramadan Away from Home: The Table is Set, But Hunger Remains for Displaced Syrian Mothers 14 Years on
Human Wrongs Watch
By the International Organization for Migration (IOM)*
Syria, 28 February 2025 – Around the world, Ramadan is a time to come together as a family. It represents the warmth of home, sharing a good meal and enjoying a variety of food.
As Ramadan arrives, millions of Syrians prepare to once again mark the occasion with the little resources they have. Photo: IOM Türkiye
01/03/2025
‘This Is Our Land’ – Building Gaza’s Future from the Wreckage of War
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — At night he sleeps under a tarpaulin sheet on the ruins of his family home. Like others returning to northern Gaza after months of being displaced by war, Sufian Al-Majdalawi clings to whatever he can find.
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28/02/2025
Largest Forced Displacement in the West Bank since 1967
Human Wrongs Watch
By OXFAM International*
A dramatic rise in Israeli military violence has caused the largest forced displacement in the West Bank since the Israeli occupation began. As the ‘Gazafication’ of the West Bank unfolds, vital humanitarian work and projects are being delayed or destroyed, Oxfam on 25th February 2025 warned.
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Photo from OXFAM International
More than 40,000 people have been forcibly displaced since the Gaza temporary ceasefire came into force on 19 January – the highest number since Israel occupied the Palestinian Territory including the West Bank, in 1967.
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28/02/2025
UN Human Rights Council Calls for an End to the “Abhorrent, Dehumanizing Narratives” on Gaza
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday [] called for an end to the “abhorrent, dehumanizing narratives” that continue to hamper a positive outcome to the Middle East crisis.
27/02/2025
‘Weeks of Deadly Israeli Military Raids in the Occupied West Bank Have Turned Palestinian Communities into “Battlefields”
(UN News)* — Weeks of deadly Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank have turned Palestinian communities into “battlefields” and left 40,000 people homeless, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday [].
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The violence has seen exchanges of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants – and the use of bulldozers in refugee camps for the first time in 20 years which have destroyed public services, including vital electricity and water networks.
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