Human Wrongs Watch
By Vibhu Mishra
(UN News)* — The world is facing a cross-border “chain of violence” driven by small arms and light weapons, UN disarmament and law enforcement officials told the Security Council on Monday [].
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11/11/2025
Sudan: 89,000 Civilians Have Fled El Fasher
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The UN aid coordination office (OCHA) on Monday [] warned of a deepening crisis in Sudan’s North Darfur as violence spreads beyond the city of El Fasher.
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08/11/2025
DR Congo Hunger Crisis Worsening amid Fighting and Lack of Aid Funding
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to worsen amid ongoing fighting that has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes and created acute hunger, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday [].
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08/11/2025
UN Human Rights Chief Warns ‘Abominable Atrocities’ Likely Continue in Sudan’s El Fasher
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Warnings of worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan continue, despite reports of a ceasefire deal brokered by international mediators on Thursday [6].
“Today, traumatised civilians are still trapped inside El Fasher and are being prevented from leaving,” said UN human rights chief Volker Türk in a statement released on Friday.
“I fear that the abominable atrocities such as summary executions, rape and ethnically motivated violence are continuing within the city.”
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02/11/2025
As Civil Society Is Silenced, Corruption and Inequality Rise
Human Wrongs Watch
– From the streets of Bangkok to power corridors in Washington, the civil society space for dissent is fast shrinking.
Mandeep Tiwana, Secretary General, CIVICUS Global Alliance. Credit: CIVICUS
Authoritarian regimes are silencing opposition but indirectly fueling corruption and widening inequality, according to a leading global civil society alliance.
The warning is from Mandeep Tiwana, Secretary General of CIVICUS Global Alliance, who points to a troubling trend: civil society is increasingly considered a threat to those in power.
That is a sobering assessment from CIVICUS, which reports that a wave of repression by authoritarian regimes is directly fueling corruption and exploding inequality.
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01/11/2025
After Fleeing Violence, Refugees in Ethiopia Struggle with Hunger
Human Wrongs Watch
By Elshaday Gebeyehu | World Food Programme*
Funding cuts are forcing WFP to sharply shrink assistance to hundreds of thousands asylum seekers
Nyibol (carrying baby) and her children arrive in Gambella, Ethiopia, after a days-long trek from South Sudan. Photo: WFP/Michael Tewelde
– Nyibol and her four children crossed from their native South Sudan into Ethiopia last April, feeling weak from hunger. It had been days since their last meal.
“My children are small; the journey was difficult for them,” recalls Nyibol, describing struggling with sickness during a two-week long journey
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01/11/2025
Tens of Thousands Fleeing on Foot amid Atrocities in Sudan’s El Fasher
Human Wrongs Watch
More details continued to emerge on Friday of atrocities committed during and after the fall of El Fasher to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia in Sudan’s Darfur region.
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01/11/2025
‘Blood on the sand. Blood on the hands’: UN decries world’s failure as Sudan’s El Fasher falls
Human Wrongs Watch
By Vibhu Mishra
El Fasher has “descended into an even darker hell,” senior UN officials warned on Thursday, as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia seized control of the North Darfur capital after a 500-day siege, forcing tens of thousands to flee on foot amid reports of mass executions, rape and starvation.
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01/11/2025
The Biggest Single Contributor to the UN Budget Is also the Biggest Single Defaulter
Human Wrongs Watch
– The United States, the largest single contributor to the UN budget, is using its financial clout to threaten the United Nations by cutting off funds and withdrawing from several UN agencies.
Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe
In an interview with Breitbart News U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Mike Waltz said last week “a quarter of everything the UN does, the United States pays for”.
“Is there money being well spent? I’d say right now, no, because it’s being spent on all of these other woke projects, rather than what it was originally intended to do, what President Trump wants it to do, and what I want it to do, which is focus on peace.”
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30/10/2025
Hurricane Melissa: Devastation in Jamaica at Levels ‘Never Been Seen Before’
Human Wrongs Watch
By Charlotte Frantz
As Hurricane Melissa moved north of Jamaica on Wednesday, the head of the UN team there said that preliminary damage assessments from the category 5 storm showed a level of devastation “never seen before” on the Caribbean island.
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