'Unseen' News and Views
A Syrian refugee rides a motorbike through deep mud at the informal Tal Sarhoun settlement in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. © UNHCR/Diego Ibarra Sánchez
“I had to carry my wife all the way from here under the rain so she could deliver (at the hospital). We came back and I was holding my baby to my chest and covering him with a blanket,” says Mohammed of his newborn son, Dayf-allah.
23 December, 2016 (Greenpeace)* – If art imitates life then surely it must mean that it’s the end of the world as we know it, and climate change is taking us all down with it.
These days, the films that we are getting down to “Netflix and chill” with have less to do with green-screen magic, explosions or mystical monsters; and more to do with the unfortunate slow catastrophe that is unfolding in the world.
Want disaster? How about a town ravaged by a super typhoon? In the mood for tension?
How about the real-life David and Goliath story of the indigenous tribe defending their land against major conglomerates?
Drama and action more your thing? What about illegal fishing and slavery happening out of sight, and deep in the middle of the vast ocean?
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