'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
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While the global economy has kept up modest growth, the total number of unemployed people will likely remain high in 2018 – at above 192 million – and it will be harder to find a decent job, the United Nations labour agency on 22 January 2018 reported.
A worker sorts a green leaf tea before it reaches the main processing floor at the Kitabi Tea Processing Facility in Rwanda. Photo: A’Melody Lee / World Bank | Source: UN News Centre
22 Jan 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — There are many reasons for persons with very different worldviews to feel disillusioned by, if not angry at, the United Nations.
Richard Falk
These negative feelings arise usually because the UN stands idly by the sidelines while terrible national and human tragedies unfold as the world media visually narrates horrific events in real time.
At other times the hostile feelings toward the UN arise because the Organization is seen as a plaything of geopolitics, as bowing to crude leverage wielded by major funding governments, and in the process violating the letter and spirit of the UN Charter.
Such behavior undermines the UN’s constitutional foundations and casts doubt on the central claim that the Organization is dedicated to the cause of war prevention.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on 22 January 2018 launched a global fundraising campaign to sustain resources for its education, health and other assistance programmes.
Pierre Krähenbühl, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, speaks at the launch of the fundraising campaign. UNRWA Photo by Khalil Adwan
