Human Wrongs Watch
By Rayya Almuheisen, Senior Communications Assistant | The International Organization for Migration*
.Photo: IOM 2025
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23/07/2025
Gaza: United Nations’ Staff Now Fainting from Hunger, Exhaustion…
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Worrying alerts from United Nations staff in the Gaza Strip who have been fainting from hunger and exhaustion over the past 48 hours have increased fears for people’s survival in the devastated enclave, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday [.
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22/07/2025
Complaint at the European Court of Human Rights: Systemic Ecocide and Genocide in the Global Financial System
Human Wrongs Watch
By Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service*
A Historic Legal Complain
14 Jul 2025 – At a pivotal moment in history, a groundbreaking legal complaint has been filed with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), accusing prominent Belgian and European institutions of complicity in what is described as “systemic ecocide and genocide.”
Koenraad Priels
This submission, spearheaded by Belgian researcher Koenraad Priels, is not merely a call for justice—it is an urgent demand for transformative change in the face of a planetary polycrisis that threatens both human civilization and the biosphere.
The Core of the Complaint
The legal action is rooted in extensive empirical, mathematical, and legal evidence demonstrating that the current global financial architecture—anchored in debt-driven, interest-bearing banking and rentier capitalism—systematically generates large-scale harm.
This harm manifests as two interlinked crises:
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22/07/2025
‘Some 1 Million Women and Girls, Including an estimated 150,000 Pregnant Women and New Mothers, Have Been Forced to Flee Their Homes and Are Living in Dangerous Conditions’
Human Wrongs Watch
Updated 23 June 2025
Occupied Palestinian Territory (UN Population Fund)* — Amid the devastation of the war in Gaza, some 1 million women and girls, including an estimated 150,000 pregnant women and new mothers, have been forced to flee their homes and are living in dangerous conditions, without access to even the most basic health services.
© UNFPA Palestine
With relentless attacks on healthcare since the war began in October 2023, only around half of Gaza’s hospitals are even partially functioning, depriving women and girls of access to critical care as well as the essentials to survive – food, water, shelter and protection from violence.
22/07/2025
Terror and Chaos for Gaza’s People Now Entering the ‘Death Phase’
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — After another deadly weekend in Gaza in which at least 67 Palestinians were reportedly killed seeking food, UN aid teams on Monday [] described “mayhem” and starvation in the enclave as the Israeli military pushed into Deir Al-Balah for the first time.
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“We’re in the death phase,” one UNRWA worker said.
“Everything around people at the moment is death, whether it’s bombs or strikes, children wasting away in front of their eyes from malnourishment, from dehydration, and dying.”
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21/07/2025
Soaring Demand for Electric Vehicles, Lithium-Ion Batteries Creates Environmental Crisis in DR Congo
Human Wrongs Watch
– Electric vehicles contribute to an ongoing environmental and humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Mining operations cause deforestation, pollution, food insecurity and exploitative labor practices.
A young girl washes her hands in a puddle near a UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC. Photo Credit: UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti
Advertisers paint electric vehicles as an environmentally friendly option to help save the planet. In the West, American states like California and New York incentivize citizens to go green and help their cities by ditching gas-powered vehicles.
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21/07/2025
United States Government Cuts Future Funding for the UN Population Fund
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By the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)*
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, has learned that the United States Government will deny future funding to the organization, cutting essential support for millions of people living in humanitarian crises and for midwives preventing mothers from dying in childbirth.
Multiple evaluations by the US Government itself and others have found no evidence that UNFPA engages in coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization in China.
The US had become one of UNFPA’s most critical partners, providing $180 million in funding on average a year.
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21/07/2025
Major Aid Cuts Leave UN Refugee Agency Unable to Shelter 6 in 10 Fleeing War in Sudan
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Major cuts to aid budgets have already left people fleeing wars in Sudan and beyond without the assistance and protection they need, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on .
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20/07/2025
Imperial Hypocrisy about “Terrorism” Hits Its Most Absurd Point Yet
Human Wrongs Watch
By Caitlin Johnstone – TRANSCEND Media Service*
“Terrorist” just means “anyone who inconveniences the empire in any way.” It really is that simple.
Trump and Ahmed al-Sharaa aka Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, ex-terrorist turned Syria’s president. Image via White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (Public Domain)
8 Jul 2025 – The US has removed Syria’s Al Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organizations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups.
The western empire will surely find ways to be even more hypocritical and ridiculous about its “terrorism” designations in the future, but at this point it’s hard to imagine how it will manage to do so.
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20/07/2025
Syria: Hundreds Killed in Ongoing Violence, Hospitals Overwhelmed
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Amid violent clashes in southern Syria’s Suweida governorate, a picture of grave human rights abuses and rising humanitarian needs is emerging by the hour, the UN said on Friday .
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