Falmata and her granddaughter, Aisha, at the entrance of their makeshift shelter in Sangaya displacement camp, Dikwa, Borno State. Photo: OCHA/Chima Onwe
19/06/2025
‘Hate Speech Is Poison in the Well of Society’
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Hate speech is a warning sign and a driver of violence, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said ahead of the 18 June 2025 International Day for Countering Hate Speech.
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18/06/2025
More Gazans Killed Trying to Get Food, Healthcare Near to ‘Full Disaster’
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Gaza’s health system is at breaking point, overwhelmed time and again by scores of people killed or injured near aid distribution sites, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday .
18/06/2025
‘Every Minute, an Equivalent of Four Football Fields of Healthy Land Becomes Degraded’
Human Wrongs Watch
Up to 40% of all land area worldwide already considered degraded.
Healthy land underpins thriving economies, with over half of global GDP dependent on nature. Yet we are depleting this natural capital at an alarming rate: every minute, the equivalent of four football fields is lost due to land degradation.
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A young boy herds his families cattle in the dry and desolate lanscape of the city of Tawaila in Northern Darfur. UN Photo/Fred Noy..
18/06/2025
“We Have No One Else.” Families on the Brink in Nigeria’s Worst Hunger Crisis in Five Years
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)* — North-east Nigeria is facing its worst malnutrition crisis in five years. More than 1 million children under age 5 across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states are at risk of severe acute malnutrition – that’s twice as many children as last year and the highest number on record.
For families who already endured years of conflict and displacement, hunger is a new and urgent threat.
“We’ve been here since 2016,” said Falmata Idris, 53, who lives in a makeshift shelter in the Sangaya camp for internally displaced people in Dikwa, Borno State, with her 12-year-old granddaughter, Aisha.
17/06/2025
Weaponizing Food Worsens Starvation
Human Wrongs Watch
– Wars, economic shocks, planetary heating and aid cuts have worsened food crises in recent years, with almost 300 million people now threatened by starvation.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Why hunger?
World food production has increased almost four fold since 1960.
FAO statistics indicate enough output to feed the world’s eight billion plus another three billion!
Clearly, inadequate food due to population growth cannot explain persistent hunger. Yet, the number of hungry people has been rising for more than a decade.
So, why are so many hungry if there is more than enough food for all?
The multi-stakeholder 2025 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) notes 2024 was the sixth consecutive year of high and growing acute food insecurity, with 295.3 million people starving!
In 2023, 733 million people experienced chronic hunger. Over a fifth (22.6%) of the 53 countries/territories assessed in this year’s GRFC were especially vulnerable. Continue reading
17/06/2025
Rohingya Facing Risks Everywhere, at All Times
Human Wrongs Watch
By Meenakshi Ganguly, Deputy Asia Director | Human Rights Watch*
Military and Armed Group Abuses in Myanmar; Humanitarian Crisis in Bangladesh
Dawood is 19 years old and living in a crowded Rohingya refugee settlement in Bangladesh. He says his life is shattered.
In February 2024, the Myanmar military conscripted Dawood and other Rohingya men and boys to fight the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group, in Rakhine State. They received little or no training, and dozens were killed or injured.
17/06/2025
El Salvador: Bukele’s Authoritarianism Goes Global
Human Wrongs Watch
– At a White House meeting, presidents Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump exchanged praises and joked about mass incarceration while discussing an unprecedented agreement: the USA would pay El Salvador US$6 million a year to house deportees – of any nationality, potentially including US citizens – in its Centre for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT), a notorious mega-prison.
Credit: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters via Gallo Images
This agreement marked the evolution of Bukele’s authoritarian model from a domestic experiment to an exportable commodity for strongmen worldwide.
16/06/2025
‘Worsening Hunger in 13 Hotspots: 5 with Immediate Risk of Starvation’
Human Wrongs Watch
By the World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization*
Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti, and Mali remain hotspots of highest concern, and Democratic Republic of the Congo has returned as a hunger hotspot to watch.
A woman collects WFP food assistance in Goma, where a precarious calm reigns after fighting earlier this year. Photo: WFP/Benjamin Anguandia
ROME, – A new joint UN report warns that people in five hunger hotspots around the world face extreme hunger and risk of starvation and death in the coming months unless there is urgent humanitarian action and a coordinated international effort to de-escalate conflict, stem displacement, and mount an urgent full-scale aid response.
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