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24/09/2025

‘Environmental Damage in Gaza Strip Harming Human Health, Threatening Long-Term Food and Water Security’

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By the UN Environment Programme*

Nairobi, 23 September 2025 – Two years of escalating conflict have caused unprecedented levels of environmental damage in the Gaza Strip, damaging its soils, freshwater supplies and coastline, finds a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Photo credit: UNRWA Photo by Ashraf Amra

The Environmental Impact of the Conflict in the Gaza Strip, released on 23 September 2025, says the recovery from some of that damage could take decades. The assessment comes a month after a panel of independent experts determined that parts of the Gaza are in a state of famine.

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24/09/2025

Health Workers Lose Support Structures and Pregnant Women Die: The Reality of Funding Cuts Hits in Yemen

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By the UN Population Fund*

HADRAMAUT/HAJJAH/TAI’Z GOVERNORATES, Yemen, 15 September 2025 – “The patient was in her third trimester and arrived with severe bleeding,” said Ms. Akaber, a community midwife from the Ku’aydinah District, in Yemen’s northwestern Hajjah Governorate. “I provided assistance, but the baby was already dead.”

**A midwife from a UNFPA mobile health clinic assesses a pregnant woman at a displacement camp in Marib, Yemen. The mobile clinic is no longer operational due to funding cuts. ©UNFPA Yemen**

The patient was Hanan Wahan, a 25-year-old mother of three who was nine months pregnant. She experienced complications during an attempted home birth, and Ms. Akaber urged her husband to bring her to the district hospital, hoping they could save her life.

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24/09/2025

Haiti’s Security Crisis ‘Is Like the Sword of Damocles above Us’

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(UN News)* — Foreign Ministers from across the Americas met on the margins of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday [23 September 2025] to rally for greater support for Haiti.

© UNICEF/Maxime Le Lijour | A mother sits with her child at a site for displaced people in Haiti. (file)

The Caribbean country remains in the grip of a deepening multidimensional crisis affecting the political, security, human rights and humanitarian spheres, with implications for the region.

Armed gangs control large swathes of the territory, more than six million people are in urgent need of assistance, and 1.4 million have fled their homes, mainly women and children.

Killings and abductions are rampant, while cases of sexual and gender-based violence have significantly increased.

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23/09/2025

Beware Independent Central Banks

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By Jomo Kwame Sundaram

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sep 23 2025 (IPS)* –– US President Trump’s snide barbs against his appointee, US Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Jerome Powell, have revived support for central bank independence – long abused by powerful finance interests against growth and equity.

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Independent central banks are supposed to improve the quality, equity, and growth impact of monetary policy.

Instead, they have primarily served powerful financial interests, with contractionary and regressive effects leading to slower, unequal growth.

Independent of whom?
Central banks were established to determine monetary policy to shape financial conditions to achieve national economic objectives.

In recent decades, the new conventional policy wisdom has been that independent central banks should set monetary policy. Thus, they have been influenced by powerful financial interests, typically foreign, in smaller, open developing countries.

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23/09/2025

To Hell with US Empire

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By Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service*

Zarni tells it like it is.

11 Sep 2025 – Kirk, Charlie Kirk is DEAD. By that single “BEAUTIFUL” shot, as his Patron Donald Paedo Trump Jr is wont to say (ala BIG and Beautiful Bill).

Obviously, it must have been a Big and Beautiful Bullet. The shot was too neat and professional, needing no follow-up, that in turn, rules out any “woke” or Left or Marxist or Muslims or LGBTQs.

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22/09/2025

New Industry Requirements Could Disrupt Abusive Armed Groups’ Trade in Gold

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By Juliane Kippenberg, Associate Director, Children’s Rights Division | Human Rights Watch*

22 September 2025 — Deep in the forest in Venezuela’s Bolivar state, residents live in fear of horrific violence at the hands of armed groups involved in the illicit gold trade.

During a 2020 investigation, a 17-year-old boy told Human Rights Watch how he witnessed members of a Venezuelan armed group amputating both hands of a miner they accused of stealing gold. Summary executions and forced child labor by armed groups is still happening today.

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22/09/2025

Afghanistan Quake: Rescuers Dodge Dangers, Women and Girls Face Disaster, Warns UN

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(UN News)* — Women and girls still reeling from Afghanistan’s deadly earthquake face even greater suffering rebuilding their lives and livelihoods – with little help to hand, gender equality agency UN Women said on Friday [19 September 2025].

UNOCHA/Ahmad Khalid Khaliqi | People who lost their homes in the earthquake which struck eastern Afghanistan are temporarily living in tents.

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22/09/2025

Outsourcing Cruelty: Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine

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By Inés M. Pousadela*

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Sep 19 2025 (IPS)** – Thousands of Afghans who fled to the USA when the Taliban took over in August 2021 now face the prospect of deportation to countries they’ve never been to.

Credit: Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters via Gallo Images

People who risked everything to escape persecution, often because they helped US forces, now find themselves treated as unwanted cargo under the Trump administration’s anti-migration policy.

Trump’s expanded deportation programme targets an estimated 10 million foreign-born people who live in the USA but lack proper legal documentation.

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18/09/2025

Deadly Attacks and Collapsing Services Push Sudan Closer to Catastrophe

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By Vibhu Mishr

(UN News)* — The United Nations has sounded the alarm over Sudan’s spiralling crisis, warning that deadly attacks in El Fasher, the collapse of essential services, and mass displacement are pushing millions in Darfur and beyond closer to catastrophe.

Patients receive treatment in a tent outside a hospital in Khartoum, as Sudan’s health system comes under severe strain from attacks, shortages, disease outbreaks, and natural disasters.

© UNICEF/Ahmed Mohamdeen Elfatih | Patients receive treatment in a tent outside a hospital in Khartoum, as Sudan’s health system comes under severe strain from attacks, shortages, disease outbreaks, and natural disasters.

Sudan has been embroiled in a brutal civil war between rival militaries – the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and affiliated militias.

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18/09/2025

Europe’s Dependence on Foreign-Trained Doctors and Nurses Has Cross-Border Ripple Effects

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By the World Health Organization (WHO)*

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.

© WHO/MoH Malta | Europe’s dependence on foreign-trained doctors and nurses has cross-border ripple effects, finds new WHO/Europe report.

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%.

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