'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director. Credit: UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz.
Her silence was broken by the men who boastfully posted their images of the rape, deepening her abuse by showing her body to the world, in the confident expectation of approval by their peers and impunity from punishment.
**U.S. Navy and Coast Guard personnel stand guard aboard the Al Basrah Oil Terminal in July 2009. | Author: hello_rizzudo…| public domain. | Wikimedia Commons
The Iraqi military is continuing its attempt to retake the city of Fallujah from ISIS. Islamic State has demonstrated strong resistance on the ground. On Tuesday [31 May], government forces along with a Shiite militia group repelled a four-hour Islamic State attack in the city’s south. This comes a day after the Iraqi military entered southern parts of the city.
2 June 2016 – Droughts linked to El Niño and civil conflicts have pushed the number of countries currently in need of external food assistance up to 37 from 34 in March, a new report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has found.
A woman sells rice at Haití’s Pontsonde market on the banks of the Artibonite River. Photo: FAO/Walter Astrada
The new edition of the Crop Prospects and Food Situation report adds Papua New Guinea, Haiti and Nigeria to the list of countries requiring outside help to feed their own populations or communities of refugees they are hosting.
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