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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05/03/2025
UN Special Envoy Strongly Condemns Continuing Israeli Attacks inside Syria
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The UN Special Envoy for Syria on Tuesday [] condemned ongoing Israeli attacks inside Syrian territory and continuing violations in and around the demilitarised zone created as part of a 1974 ceasefire agreement.
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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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04/03/2025
‘Rapid Expansion’ of Synthetic Drugs Reshaping Illicit Markets, UN Anti-Narcotics Body Warns
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Synthetic drugs are rapidly transforming the global drug trade, fuelling an escalating public health crisis, according to the UN administered International Narcotics Control Board (INCB).
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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
African Leaders Challenged To Unite Against Energy Transition Mineral Oppressors
Human Wrongs Watch
– Renewable energy and climate change activists have challenged African heads of state to take a united stance to safeguard essential mineral resources, particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and other parts of the continent, which are selfishly exploited by foreign miners with disregard for poverty-stricken local communities.
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Dr. Augustine Njamnshi of ACSEA addresses a group of civil society organizations ahead of the AUC Summit in Addis Ababa. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS
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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
Alarming Trends in Nuclear Material Trafficking Highlight Urgent Security Gaps
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — There were just under 150 incidents of illegal or unauthorised activity involving nuclear and other radioactive material reported last year, according to the international nuclear energy watchdog’s monitoring database tracking these incidents.
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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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