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.
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.
(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.
According to local reports, heavy shelling and assaults late last week in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, killed at least six civilians and injured scores more, triggering fresh displacement from the already besieged city.
BRATISLAVA, Sep 17 2025 (IPS)* – Just under a year into a fragile ceasefire, 150,000 people in southern Lebanon continue to deal with the potentially lethal aftermath of Israeli bombing, highlighting the devastating long-term effects of conflict.
Damage to the water tank at the Maisat water pumping station. Credit: WaSH Sector Lebanon
A report published late last month (AUG) by Action Against Hunger, Insecurity Insight, and Oxfam said that at least 150,000 people remain without running water across the south of Lebanon after Israeli attacks had damaged and destroyed swathes of water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities since the beginning of the conflict in Lebanon.
(UN News)* —As bombs continue to fall on Gaza City as part of Israel’s intensifying military operation, families with starving children are being pushed southwards from one “hellscape” to another, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday [].
The development followed reports that the Israeli military has stepped up its ground offensive in Gaza City, ordering residents to leave the area.
Speaking from the south of the enclave, UNICEF’s Tess Ingram described the forced mass displacement of families as a “deadly threat for the most vulnerable”.
“It is inhumane to expect nearly half a million children battered and traumatized by over 700 days of unrelenting conflict to flee one hellscape to end up in another,” she insisted.
16 September 2025 — Greece’s Migration Minister Thanos Plevris recently announced his intention to adopt new measures to silence criticism of the government’s migration policies.
The move, which came in the wake of a victory by civil society groups at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), is part of the Greek government’s broader assault on civil society and is likely to worsen the already hostile environmentfor nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), particularly those working on migration.
PORTLAND, USA, Sep 15 2025 (IPS)** –Most of the population in this country wants immigrants, but the current government does not share the same sentiment.
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Opinion polls show that the majority of the U.S. population holds positive views on immigration. Credit: Shutterstock.
The country in question is the United States, often referred to as “a nation of immigrants”, home to more immigrants than any other country worldwide, having received over 100 million immigrants since its founding in 1776.
Opinion polls show that the majority of the U.S. population holds positive views on immigration.
(UN News)* — “Underfunded, overstretched and under attack” is how the United Nation’s top aid official has referred to the UN and the support it is providing to the humanitarian sector.
Speaking on Monday [] to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York, Tom Fletcher, who heads up the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said “we have only 19 per cent of what we need.”
The international community is currently dealing with multiple humanitarian crises across the world, including conflict-driven crises in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen.
Other crisis hotspots includeAfghanistan, Haiti, Myanmar and the Sahel.
(UN News)* — Senior independent rights investigators appointed by the Human Rights Council alleged on Tuesday [] that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, a charge flatly rejected by Tel Aviv.
(UN News)* — Senior human rights investigators reporting to the UN Human Rights Council on alleged that sexual and gender-based violence by Israeli security forces against Palestinians – including children – have been increasingly used “as a method of war” following the 7 October 2023 attacks that sparked the Gaza war.
UN News | Much of Gaza remains in ruins.
“Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination,” maintained Chris Sidoti from the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
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