Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Amid the ongoing Israeli aid blockade and bombardment of Gaza, aid teams on warned that civilians trapped there face multiple daily challenges as relief supplies run critically low.
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07/04/2025
Unprecedented Aid Cuts Threaten to Roll Back Progress in Ending Maternal Mortality
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Unprecedented aid cuts are putting global progress to end maternal deaths at risk, three UN agencies warned in a new report that calls for greater investment in midwives and other health workers.
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05/04/2025
Make America Great Again? Not by This Administration
Human Wrongs Watch
– For most voters, to make America great again, as the 47th president has repeatedly pledged, meant to make the United States markedly superior globally.
The US administration’s actions, policies, program cuts and employee firings will not improve but likely only worsen America’s mediocre standing on virtually every major measure of societal wellbeing and development. Credit: Shutterstock.
However, the administration’s actions, policies and program cuts will not improve but only worsen the US’s mediocre standing among advanced countries.
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05/04/2025
UN Human Rights Office Calls for End to Israel’s ‘Illegal Presence’ in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Amid reports of escalating settler violence in the West Bank, the UN rights office, OHCHR, briefed the Palestinian rights committee at UN Headquarters in New York, which also featured a screening of the Oscar winning documentary No Other Land.
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04/04/2025
Artificial Intelligence’s $4.8 Trillion Future: UN Warns of Widening Digital Divide without Urgent Action
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on course to become a $4.8 trillion global market by 2033 – roughly the size of Germany’s economy – but unless urgent action is taken, its benefits may remain in the hands of a privileged few, a new UN report warns.
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04/04/2025
UN Human Rights Chief Warns of Increasing Risk of ‘Atrocity Crimes’ in Gaza
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The recent killings of 15 medical personnel and humanitarian aid workers in Gaza raise further concerns over the commission of war crimes by the Israeli military, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Security Council on Thursday .
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03/04/2025
Heading Home: DR Congo’s Conflict Displaced Face Spiking Hunger and Smashed Lives
Human Wrongs Watch
By Benjamin Anguandia and Shelley Thakral | World Food Programme*
As new findings show record-high hunger in Africa’s second-largest country, a severe funding crunch and insecurity hamper WFP’s efforts to reach tens of thousands of desperate people in the northeast.
— Linda L. is back home again. Back to a field full of weeds and a roof full of holes. Back to find once-precious livestock and other belongings long looted. Back to an uncertain future, as fierce fighting rages across northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo where she lives.
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03/04/2025
Sudan: Sexual Violence Used as Weapon of Terror against Women and Girls
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Amid alarming reports of sexual violence being used as a weapon of terror across Sudan, UN reproductive health agency, UNFPA, is warning that over 12 million women and girls – and increasingly men and boys – are estimated to be at risk.
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03/04/2025
United Nations Condemns Killing of More than a 1,000 People in Gaza since Ceasefire Collapse
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed grave concern on Wednesday over the human toll resulting from the intensified hostilities in Gaza.
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03/04/2025
A Test of Humanity: Migrants’ Rights in a World Turning Inward
Human Wrongs Watch
– The United Nations Refugee Agency faces devastating cuts that may eliminate 5,000 to 6,000 jobs, with potentially catastrophic consequences for millions of people fleeing war, repression, hunger and climate disasters.
Credit: Pietro Bertora/SOS Humanity
This 75-year-old institution, established to help Europeans displaced by the Second World War, now confronts an unprecedented financial crisis, primarily due to the US foreign aid freeze – and the timing couldn’t be worse.
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