'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for an independent and transparent investigation into clashes at the Gaza fence on 30 March 2018 between Palestinians participating in the ‘Great Return March’ and Israeli security forces which resulted in at least 15 deaths and a large number of injured.
**Destroyed house in the south of Sanaa | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Last month, a 329-page report tabled at the UN Security Council by a panel of experts on Yemen was made publicly available. The report announces that “after three years of conflict, Yemen, as a State, has all but ceased to exist”.
31/03/2018
I was about to write an article about Pesach eve’ when I remembered that I wrote exactly the same article six years ago. So I am sending the old article again – I just have nothing to add.
Uri Avnery
I AM writing this on Friday night, the eve of Passover. At this moment, all over the world, millions of Jews are gathered around the family table, observing the Seder, reading aloud from the same book: the Haggadah, which tells the story of the Exodus from Egypt.
The impact of this book on Jewish life is immense. Every Jew takes part in this ceremony from earliest childhood, and plays an active part in the ritual.
Wherever a Jewish man or woman goes in later life, they will take with them a memory of the warmth and togetherness of the family, the magical atmosphere – and the overt and subliminal message conveyed by the text.
**President Donald Trump speaks with Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, 14 March 2017. | Foreign Leader Visits | The White House from Washington, DC | public domain. | Wikimedia Commons.
**Map of the Persian Gulf |Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here. | Original uploader was Stevertigo at en.wikipedia | Wikimedia Commons: “This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The conflict that escalated in March 2015 in Yemen has left more than 22 million people – 75 per cent of the population – in need of humanitarian aid, the greatest number in any country in the world.
More than 60 per cent of the population (17.8 million people) are without enough to eat.
Over 8.4 million of these people are one step away from famine.
About 16 million Yemenis do not have access to safe water sources, with rural areas most affected.
Marie’ story is part of the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) series: “i am a migrant“.* Marie’s country of origen is Congo and she currently lives in Kuwait– 5,122 kms from home.
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March 2018 – Knocking on closed doors is something Renu Bala is very good at.
Renu Bala was one of over 5 500 farmers, government staff and agricultural technicians who took part in capacity development programmes led by FAO. ©FAO/Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
First, it was the doors of her neighbours in Panjor Bhanga, her home village in northern Bangladesh. She had an idea for them: what if they formed a milk cooperative?
They didn’t have much to lose. “The women of this village are very poor and raise only local Deshi cattle,” Renu explains.
Climate change “is still moving much faster than we are,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on 29 March 2018 warned, calling for the political will, innovation and financing to cut global emissions by at least 25 per cent over the next two years.
With relief agencies in Bangladesh struggling to assist more than a million vulnerable Rohingya refugees crowded into makeshift camps along the country’s south-east coast, the World Health Organization (WHO) on 29 March 2018 appealed for international support to help the cash strapped health sector scale up its response.
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