Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday [] called for an end to the “abhorrent, dehumanizing narratives” that continue to hamper a positive outcome to the Middle East crisis.
28/02/2025
UN Human Rights Council Calls for an End to the “Abhorrent, Dehumanizing Narratives” on Gaza
28/02/2025
Haiti: Over One Million Displaced by Violence
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Ongoing gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than a million people, nearly a tenth of the population, or three times more than last year, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country said on Thursday [].
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27/02/2025
‘Weeks of Deadly Israeli Military Raids in the Occupied West Bank Have Turned Palestinian Communities into “Battlefields”
(UN News)* — Weeks of deadly Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank have turned Palestinian communities into “battlefields” and left 40,000 people homeless, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday [].
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The violence has seen exchanges of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants – and the use of bulldozers in refugee camps for the first time in 20 years which have destroyed public services, including vital electricity and water networks.
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27/02/2025
Conflict Has Turned Parts of Sudan ‘into a Hellscape’
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — A senior UN aid official has called on the Security Council to ensure better protection for civilians in Sudan together with unhindered humanitarian access, as the brutal war between rival militaries approaches a second year.
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26/02/2025
Somalia: Drought, Conflict and High Food Prices Risk Pushing 4.4 Million People into Hunger
Human Wrongs Watch
By the UN Food and Agriculture Organoization (FAO)*
Mogadishu, 26 February 2025 – New data from Somalia shows that 4.4 million people could face hunger by April 2025, driven by worsening drought conditions, conflict and high food prices.
A farmer walks around his drought-stricken farm at Guricade village in Beletweyne, Hirshabelle state, Somalia, in 2022. ©FAO/ARETE/Ismail Taxta
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26/02/2025
Haiti: Over 6,000 People Forced to Flee Gang Violence in a Month; Entire Families Killed in Their Homes
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — More than 6,000 people in Haiti have been forced from their homes by gang violence in almost a month, hampering aid efforts by humanitarian agencies, the United Nations warned on .
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25/02/2025
America First Deepens World Stagnation
Human Wrongs Watch
– Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) appeal captured US mass discontent against globalisation.
In recent decades, variations of America First have reflected growing ethnonationalism in the world’s presumptive hegemon.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Deglobalisation?
Trade liberalisation probably peaked at the end of the 20th century with the creation of the multilateral World Trade Organization (WTO), which the West kept outside the UN system.
With deindustrialisation in the North blamed on globalisation, their governments gradually abandoned trade liberalisation, especially after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Free trade mahaguru Jagdish Bhagwati has long complained of the weak commitment to multilateral trade liberalisation. Most recent supposed free trade agreements (FTAs) have been plurilateral or bilateral, undermining multilateralism while promoting non-trade measures.
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24/02/2025
EU: No ‘Business as Usual’ at Association Council with Israel
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By Human Rights Watch*
Condemn Atrocities, Impose Consequences at Foreign Ministers Meeting
(Brussels) – European Union High Representative Kaja Kallas and EU foreign ministers should unequivocally condemn Israel’s atrocity crimes and other serious violations of international law during the EU-Israel Association Council meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on February 24, 2025, Human Rights Watch said on 24 February 2025.
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24/02/2025
Is the UN’s Human Rights Agenda in Jeopardy?
Human Wrongs Watch
– The UN’s human rights agenda is in danger of faltering since the Geneva-based Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) is planning to “restructure” the office, under the moniker OHCHR 2.0.
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But this proposal, if implemented, would result in the abolition of the Special Procedures Branch, established by the Human Rights Council (HRC), to report and advise on human rights from thematic and country-specific perspectives.
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24/02/2025
$40.4 Million Urgently Needed to Address the Deepening Humanitarian Crisis in DR Congo
Human Wrongs Watch
Urgent appeal launched as DR Congo crisis fuels mass displacement to Burundi
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