'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
12 March 2018 – With the rainy season approaching in South Sudan, where one in three people has been displaced by more than four years of conflict, a senior United Nations humanitarian official has called for urgent financial support to distribute and preposition life-saving aid supplies.
JAYAPURA, Indonesia, March 2018 (UNFPA)* – “My daughter used to hide all sorts of things from me,” said Martina, 41, at a support group session in Jayapura, in the far-eastern Indonesian province of West Papua.
Rivaldo Taime, 13, had the courage to seek help for his family. © UNFPA/Matthew Taylor
“But here, we learn to talk to each other openly, equally as friends, and she shares far more now – about problems at school, about boys and growing up.”
Rapid interventions safeguard livestock in Ethiopia – Hany’s story | FAO
8 March 2018 (FAO)* – After one failed rainy season after another in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, Hany Abdullahi Aaden was increasingly worried about the survival of her livestock.
Hany lives in Daratole District with her husband, six sons and two daughters. As rains have repeatedly failed, the soil, once brown has turned sandy and an arid red.
There’s little or no grass for Hany’s animals.
12 March 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Palestinian National Struggle 1967–1987
Dr. Walid Salem
The Israeli settler colonial project started in East Jerusalem in early 1967, directly after the beginning of occupation.
During the same period, the Palestinian resistance began as both an armed struggle – as in Gaza mainly from 1967 to 1972 – and a public movement of nonviolent resistance – as in East Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied West Bank.
In addition to settler colonialism, the Israeli project in East Jerusalem has included a combination of belligerent occupation and apartheid policies.
12 March 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service
Johan Galtung
“Change” is concrete, empirical, inter-subjectively communicable.
Some changes, like positions of fingers on clocks or ringing of bells, particularly Big Ben, and subatomic processes, are chosen as representing “time”, carrying “time”, even as being “time”.
“No change” means no time. But clocks continue, marking “time”.
Durame, ETHIOPIA (UNFPA)* – Genet Girma, 31, was a trailblazer in her community. Fifteen years ago, she ran away from home when she learned that her mother planned to have her undergo female genital mutilation (FGM).
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Uncut girls club members come together to change attitudes about FGM in the community. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Meron Negash
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