Human Wrongs Watch
()* — As conflict rages across Sudan, armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children, including some infants as young as one, according to the UN children’s agency (UNICEF).
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05/03/2025
Gaza: Deep Concern for Civilians as Aid Crossings Remain Shut
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — UN humanitarians on warned that the continued closure of key border crossings into Gaza is putting civilian lives at risk, just as they begin to recover from months of war, deprivation and hunger.
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05/03/2025
Is the UN Facing Its Biggest Single Crisis in 80 Years?
Human Wrongs Watch
– The United Nations, in its nearly 80-year-old history, is on the verge of fighting for its survival, as the Trump administration continues with its threats to drastically cut funding and pull out of several UN agencies which provide mostly humanitarian assistance worldwide.
President Donald Trump addresses the General Assembly’s 75th sessions back in September 2020. Credit: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
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04/03/2025
DR Congo: Clean Water ‘a Lifeline’ for around 364,000 Children… a Day in Goma
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are providing lifesaving clean water supplies to 700,000 people a day – around 364,000 of them children – in the regional capital Goma after breaks in the water supply due to the uptick in fighting.
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04/03/2025
Food Prices Soar as Israel Blocks All Aid into Gaza
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Israel’s move to prevent all aid from entering the Gaza Strip after Hamas reportedly refused to accept a plan to continue with phase one of the fragile ceasefire has had an immediate impact, including a 100-fold increase in the price of flour and vegetables.
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03/03/2025
‘South Sudan’s Leaders Fuelling Violence, Obstructing Peace, and Perpetuating Gross Human Rights Violations’
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan presented its latest report to the Human Rights Council on 28 February 2025 in Geneva, detailing widespread violations, including extrajudicial killings, forced recruitment of children and systematic sexual violence.
© WFP/Eulalia Berlanga | Displaced South Sudanese people arrive at a camp in Upper Nile State. (file)
Despite South Sudan winning independence over a decade ago and repeated commitments to peace during years of civil war, the Commission found that the same patterns of abuses persist, often implicating high-ranking officials.
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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
World Food Programme Forced to Pause Food Distributions in Sudan’s Zamzam Camp as Fighting Intensifies
Human Wrongs Watch
By the World Food Programme (WFP)*
PORT SUDAN, Sudan, – Intense fighting in Zamzam camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region has forced the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to temporarily pause the distribution of life-saving food and nutrition assistance in the famine-hit camp for displaced people.
Over the past two weeks escalating violence left WFP’s partners with no choice but to evacuate staff for safety.
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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
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