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%.
BRATISLAVA, Sep 17 2025 (IPS)* – Just under a year into a fragile ceasefire, 150,000 people in southern Lebanon continue to deal with the potentially lethal aftermath of Israeli bombing, highlighting the devastating long-term effects of conflict.
Damage to the water tank at the Maisat water pumping station. Credit: WaSH Sector Lebanon
A report published late last month (AUG) by Action Against Hunger, Insecurity Insight, and Oxfam said that at least 150,000 people remain without running water across the south of Lebanon after Israeli attacks had damaged and destroyed swathes of water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities since the beginning of the conflict in Lebanon.
(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.
(UN News)* — Senior independent rights investigators appointed by the Human Rights Council alleged on Tuesday [] that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, a charge flatly rejected by Tel Aviv.
(UN News)* — Senior human rights investigators reporting to the UN Human Rights Council on alleged that sexual and gender-based violence by Israeli security forces against Palestinians – including children – have been increasingly used “as a method of war” following the 7 October 2023 attacks that sparked the Gaza war.
UN News | Much of Gaza remains in ruins.
“Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination,” maintained Chris Sidoti from the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 15 2025 (IPS)* – When the high-level meeting of over 150 world political leaders takes place September 22-30, thousands of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their accredited UN representatives will either be banned from the UN premises or permitted into the building on a strictly restricted basis– as it happens every year.
This year will not be an exception to the rule.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in over 100 countries promoting adherence to, and implementation of, the United Nations nuclear weapons ban treaty. Credit: ICAN
Herat, Afghanistan, 12 September 2025 – At the Islam Qala border, the wind never rests. Dust stings the eyes and clings to skin as the 40–degree heat turns the ground into a furnace.
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As night falls, a mother holds her son’s hand as they walk past the truck that brought them from Islam Qala to IOM’s transit centre. Photo: IOM 2025/Mohammad Osman Azizi
Families squeeze into slivers of shade, children beside them shielding their faces with scarves as they wait for assistance. For many, this harsh landscape is their first glimpse of home after years away.
Since September 2023, more than four million Afghans have returned from Iran and Pakistan – over 1.5 million in 2025 alone.
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