Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — People continue to stream back into Gaza City in the wake of the temporary ceasefire across the Strip, with some 500,000 reportedly returning so far, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Thursday [].
31/01/2025
Genocide 2.0—Trump’s Plan for Cleansing Gaza
Human Wrongs Watch
– Either the new US President, Mr. Trump, is ignorant of international law or thinks he’s so brilliant that he doesn’t care about it.
Either way, he seems to have stumbled into proposing an extension of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s clearly documented crime of genocide by suggesting that somebody “clear out” the people in Gaza, in effect advocating the ethnic cleansing of the territory.
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Families begin their journey back home from the south of Gaza to Gaza City and the northern areas. 30 January 2025. Credit: UNICEF/Eyad El Baba
30/01/2025
War in Sudan: Nearly One Million People Forcibly Displaced to Chad
Human Wrongs Watch
By the Norwegian Refugee Council*
In the nearly two years since war broke out in Sudan, almost one million people have fled into neighbouring Chad, including more than 720,000 Sudanese refugees and more than 220,000 Chadians who returned home because of the conflict.
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Nine out of ten people forced into displacement are women and children and many have endured terrible acts of violence, including torture, rape and sexual slavery.
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Twenty-three international humanitarian organisations operating in eastern Chad warn that the majority of those refugees and returnees do not have access to the protection and education assistance they direly need.
30/01/2025
Gaza: Growing Risks Posed by Deadly Unexploded Ordnance Such as Landmines, Aircraft Bombs, Mortars, Rockets…
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — As more than 423,000 displaced Palestinians return to their homes in northern Gaza following the opening of key roads, UN agencies are scaling up humanitarian aid and addressing the growing risks posed by unexploded ordnance such as landmines (UXO).
30/01/2025
The New Israeli Laws Banning the UN Palestine Refugee Agency ‘Will Heighten Instability, Deepen Despair in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The implementation of new Israeli laws banning the UN Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA – set to take effect on Thursday – will heighten instability and deepen despair in the occupied Palestinian territory, the Security Council has heard.
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29/01/2025
Malnutrition in Nigeria Rises Alarmingly, Urgent Action Needed
Human Wrongs Watch
– In June 2024, 26-year-old Zainab Abdul noticed her two-year-old daughter growing pale, losing weight, and battling diarrhea. She wasn’t surprised.
Children beg for food in Gusau, the capital of Zamfara, Nigeria. Credit: Promise Eze/IPS
Since jihadist-linked bandits had forced them out of their village in Kadadaba, Zamfara State, in northwestern Nigeria, her family had been living in a refugee camp with limited access to food. Continue reading
29/01/2025
Gaza: No Safe Pregnancies During Israeli Assault
Human Wrongs Watch
By Human Rights Watch*
Limited Prenatal Care; Unsafe Deliveries; Newborns Facing Fatal Conditions
(Jerusalem, January 28, 2025) – The Israeli government’s blockade of Gaza and attacks on healthcare facilities have created serious and sometimes life-threatening danger for women and girls during and after pregnancy and delivery since hostilities began in October 2023, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on 28 January 2025.
A Palestinian woman pregnant with triplets, suffers from malnutrition and extreme anemia due to food shortages, at a displaced persons camp in Rafah, Gaza, February 14, 2024. © 2024 Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images29/01/2025
DR Congo Emergency: Next 24 Hours Are Critical, Warn UN Agencies
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The latest reports from Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from UN teams on the ground indicate a fast-deteriorating situation on Tuesday [] amid an ongoing assault by M23 rebels on the provincial capital.
29/01/2025
World News in Brief: Children Killed in Darfur Hospital Attack, Date Set for US Climate Pact Withdrawal, WHO Leads Call to Fight Neglected Diseases
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — At least one girl and three boys were killed, and three boys injured, during an attack on the Saudi Hospital in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher, North Darfur, on Friday.
28/01/2025
Breaking the Flow of Stigma for Displaced Women and Girls
Human Wrongs Watch
Dr. Tsebaot Meles, social entrepreneur and founder of Ngat Reusable Sanitary Solution based in Addis Ababa. Photo: IOM 2024/Yonatan Teffera Mekonen
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