'Unseen' News and Views
30 October 2015
IT IS not very pleasant when serious people around the world – historians, psychiatrists, diplomats – ask themselves if my prime minister is completely sane.
**Netanyahu meets with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, 24 July 2014 | Author: Foreign and Commonwealth Office | Wikimedia Commons
But this is happening now. And not only abroad. More and more people in Israel are asking themselves the same question.
This year’s El Niño can already lay claim to spawning Mexico’s record-breaking Hurricane Patricia or contributing to one of the worst ever outbreaks of peatland and forest fires in Indonesia, but it might only be just getting started.
Hurricane Patricia Bears Down on Mexico’s Pacific Coast [October 2015] | Source: Greenpeace
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 30 October 2015 said that an estimated two million children in Iraq have no access to school and warned that an additional 1.2 million may be at the risk of dropping out due to continuous violence disrupting academic years.
Students sit in front of new textbooks in one of 12 tented classrooms at Al Takiya Al Kasnazaniya camp for internally displaced persons in Karkh District, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq. Photo: UNICEF/Wathiq Khuzaie
“The impact of conflict, violence and displacement on education in Iraq is nothing short of devastating,” said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF’s Representative in Iraq.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 