'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
Geneva, 19 January 2018 (IOM)* — IOM, the UN Migration Agency, is appealing for nearly USD 1.4 billion to address the needs of over 80 million people in 50 countries in 2018.
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A woman holds her child while in no man’s land between Bangladesh and Myanmar. She arrived along with thousands of other Rohingyas fleeing from Myanmar. Photo: Muse Mohammed / UN Migration Agency (IOM) 2017
**Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Secretary of State, at his confirmation hearing | 11 January 2017 | Office of the President-elect | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
A record 4.1 billion passengers took to the skies in 2017 onboard some 37 million scheduled flights globally, the United Nations civil aviation agency on 18 January 2018 reported, highlighting that the fastest growth was seen among low-cost carriers.
An airliner being serviced before takeoff at Frankfurt Airport in Germany. Photo: UN News/Vibhu Mishra
15 January, 2018 (Greenpeace)* — This morning, people around the world are waking up to pictures of penguin sightings across the globe. The penguins have been spotted travelling on trains, arriving at international airports and at iconic landmarks. From Sydney to Buenos Aires and from London to Johannesburg, the question on everybody’s mind – what are they here for?
Arriving in Sydney, wasting no time in seeing the iconic Sydney Opera House after the flight.
The penguins are part of a new Greenpeace campaign calling for the creation of the largest protected area on earth: a 1.8 million square kilometre ocean sanctuary in the Antarctic.
(Wall Street International) – In the early 1970’s, women were for the first time permitted entry to graduate programs in psychology in Western universities. The laws were changing and the times were changing.
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A “Me too!” marcher on Hollywood Blvd Sunday to end sexual harassment in the workplace | Photo re-posted from Wall Street International
18 January 2018 (WMO) – In a clear sign of continuing long-term climate change caused by increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, 2015, 2016 and 2017 have been confirmed as the three warmest years on record.
2016 still holds the global record, whilst 2017 was the warmest year without an El Niño, which can boost global annual temperatures.
The upward trend in global temperatures marked by record-shattering warmth in 2015 and 2016 kept pace last year, with the United Nations weather agency on 18 January 2018 warning that continued pressure on the Arctic in 2017 will have “profound and long-lasting repercussions on sea levels, and on weather patterns in other parts of the world.”
Wide shot of Havana, Cube in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. Photo: UNOCHA EFE/Rolando Pujol | Source: UN News Centre
“The long-term temperature trend is far more important than the ranking of individual years, and that trend is an upward one,” Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said.
