'Unseen' News and Views
**Photo: The Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, taken from an airplane in January 2008 | David B. Gleason from Chicago, IL | The Pentagon | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
By Vania Turner in Kalemie, Democratic Republic of the Congo*
Thousands of children are thought to be missing as DR Congo’s displacement crisis deepens.
Faiza, 31, says her children were kidnapped – and probably killed – when their village came under attack. © UNHCR/Colin Delfosse
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**Anti-Brexit street art in London of Boris Johnson embracing Donald Trump.| Matt Brown from London, England | Creative CommonsAttribution 2.0 Generic license.
3 July 2018 (openDemocracy)* — For the last two years, British politics has seemed to have nothing to do with me, as I watch a squabble between two ideological sects, their members spread across the two main parties and incapable of resolving anything.
They never talk about the things I think need talking about, and every pronouncement they make contains more questions than answers – particularly these ones:
2 July, 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service – Writing this week [last week of June] for the Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman called a U.S. Government report on the war in Afghanistan “a chronicle of futility.”
Girls and mothers, waiting for their duvets, in Kabul. Photo credit: Dr. Hakim
“The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction” report says the U.S. spent large sums “in search of quick gains” in regional stabilization – but these instead “exacerbated conflicts, enabled corruption and bolstered support for insurgents.”
“In short,” says Chapman, the U.S. government “made things worse rather than better.”
Myanmar should “have some shame” after attempting to convince the world that it is willing to take back hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled an “ethnic cleansing campaign” last year, given that “not a single” one has returned officially, the United Nations human rights chief on 4 July 2018 warned.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre | Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
In Mali, a senior United Nations rights expert on 4 July 2018 described an “alarming” deterioration of the security, human rights and humanitarian situation in northern and eastern areas of the country.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 