Human Wrongs Watch
()* — Years of underfunding of humanitarian aid and increasing needs have put millions of Haitians at risk of chronic vulnerability, according to a newly released UN report.
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24/08/2024
Gaza: Vital Aid Supplies Running Low as Schools Hit in Further Strikes
Human Wrongs Watch
By Daniel Johnson
(UN News)* — UN aid teams have warned that vital chorine supplies that are essential for purifying water are running out and deteriorating in Gaza, while humanitarians condemned new strikes on schools sheltering people displaced by the war.
24/08/2024
Gaza: Latest Evacuation Orders Leave Civilians Dangerously Close to Frontline
Human Wrongs Watch
By Daniel Johnson in Geneva and Ziad Taleb in Gaza
“Continuous” Israeli military evacuation orders in Gaza threaten already extremely vulnerable people in the enclave with further forced displacement, raising concerns that vital services could soon be cut off, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday [].
24/08/2024
Empowering Africa’s Informal Market Traders To Deliver Safe Food
Human Wrongs Watch
– Local informal food markets feed millions of urbanites in bustling African cities, but the consequences of tainted food could be illness and death for unsuspecting consumers.
Fisherman Godknows Skota holds gutted and cleaned fish. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS
Over 130,000 people across Africa fall ill and die from consuming unsafe food, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)
An estimated 70 percent of Africa’s urban households buy food from informal markets, such as street vendors, kiosks, and traditional market sellers.
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24/08/2024
Hundreds of Modern Slavery Victims Locked Up in England’s Prisons
Human Wrongs Watch
Exclusive: New immigration laws create ‘hierarchy of victims’ that means many are imprisoned and denied help on release.
Hundreds of modern slavery victims are in prison | Credit: Pexels/Composition by James Battershill
23/08/2024
The Escalating Conflict in the Sahel: A Geopolitical Quagmire
Human Wrongs Watch
By Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The Sahel, this vast arid region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, a region that has long been a battleground for various forces, shows no signs of abating.
Instead, it is intensifying, drawing in both regional and global powers in a struggle that is as much about resources as it is about ideology and control.
Raïs Neza Boneza
The events surrounding the recent ambush of Malian forces on 25 Jul 2024, near Tinsawaten, on the Mali-Algeria border, underscore the complexity and the scale of this conflict.
The Tinsawaten Ambush: A Turning Point?
The ambush on Malian forces at Tinsawaten, a strategic locality straddling the Mali-Algeria border, marks a significant escalation in the conflict.
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23/08/2024
Myanmar: New Atrocities against Rohingya
Human Wrongs Watch
By Human Rights Watch*
Escalating Fighting amid 7 Years of Desperation
(Bangkok) – Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are facing the gravest threats since 2017, when the Myanmar military carried out a sweeping campaign of massacres, rape, and arson in northern Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch on 22 August 2024 said.
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23/08/2024
Botswana Prepares for Historic UN Conference on Landlocked Countries
Human Wrongs Watch
()* — Leaders from landlocked developing countries, (LLDCs) will gather in Gaborone, Botswana, this December to tackle challenges, explore solutions, and build alliances for a more equitable and prosperous future.
22/08/2024
Mpox: What You Need to Know about the Latest Public Health Emergency
Human Wrongs Watch
By Eileen Travers
(UN News)* — The swift spread of a new virulent strain of the mpox virus across Africa triggered the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare it once again a public health emergency of international concern last week.
22/08/2024
Neglected for Years, Mpox Now a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
Human Wrongs Watch
– There is a deadly outbreak of a new and graver variant of mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and at least one case has been confirmed in nearly 12 African countries, including those like Kenya, Burundi, Uganda, and Rwanda that were previously unaffected.
Kenya has activated all 26 public health emergency operations centers countrywide and prepared laboratories for mpox testing to manage and control an mpox outbreak. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS
Suspected mpox cases across these countries have surpassed 17,000, a significant increase from 7,146 cases in 2022 and 14,957 cases in 2023.
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