'Unseen' News and Views
From arbitrary detentions and deliberate deprivation, to attacks against civilians and forced displacements, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, expressed “acute concerns” on Monday 23 July 2018 over the current human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
A new health clinic in a San Pedro Sula suburb is the cornerstone of a project to re-establish community ties in gang-ridden neighborhoods.
Patients wait to be seen at the UNHCR-supported Holy Trinity Comprehensive Support Centre in Chamalecón, San Pedro Sula, Honduras. | © UNHCR/Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo
UPDATES ON MYANMAR ROHINGYA GENOCIDE
Report finds “reasonable grounds” for ICC arrest warrants, identifies 22 military and police officials.
To read the FULL REPORT download PDF file: They Gave Them Long Swords- Fortify Rights July 19 2018
19 Jul 2018 – The Myanmar authorities made “extensive and systematic preparations” for attacks against Rohingya civilians during the weeks and months before militants attacked police on August 25, 2017, Fortify Rights said in a new report released today.
23 July 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — My suggestion is that the answers to the question my title poses will depend on how we understand cause and effect. Acting intentionally entails the belief that the action(s) will cause, or at least tend to cause, the results intended.
Howard Richards
The truth or falsity (or mixed truth and falsity) of that belief (or set of beliefs) depends on the causal powers that move events and move history.
It also depends on our own causal powers (if we have any) to make a difference.
The “beliefs” that spell the difference between our actions being part of the solution, or being part of the problem, or being an irrelevant spinning of wheels going nowhere, may be collective or unconscious or both collective and unconscious.
They may be examined or unexamined.
The subject of my question is how to get the world back on track toward human flourishing in harmony with nature.
Guatemala City (IOM)* – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, on 19 July 2018 reported that 86 per cent of people affected by Volcán de Fuego’s eruption last month, lost their sources of income or their businesses.
KYELA, Tanzania, 23 July 2018 (ILO)* – At the age of 18 and just out of secondary school, Angel Banda already knew what she didn’t want. She had seen many of her school friends enter into relationships with much older men so they could pay for their housing or school fees – or simply to have a sense of security and stability. Many of these relationships put the girls at high risk of violence and infections like HIV.
Photo from ILO.
However, Banda didn’t see herself working as a maid for a man who would proposition her for sex. In fact, she didn’t want to depend on men at all.
17 July 2018 (Pressenza)* — Ann Wright served 29 years in the US Army as a colonel and moved to the diplomatic service, where she worked for 16 years as a diplomat in US embassies in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She resigned in March 2003 to protest President Bush’s war against Iraq and has been a peace activist ever since. She took an active part in this year’s protest week Stop Air Base Ramsteinin Germany, where we had the opportunity to have the following interview with her.
Ann Wright
The South China Post reported Sunday [22/07/2018] that Beijing expects to deploy artificially intelligent unmanned submarines in the early 2020s. The seacraft could be used to survey waters, place munitions or even be used in suicide attacks against enemies, scientists involved in the program told the outlet.
Photo from UN Environment.
21 July 2018 (UN Environment)* – Nine environmentalists who risk everything to protect their homes, land and natural environment from harm and exploitation are telling their stories in a published photo series today [21 July 2018] in The Guardian’s weekend edition, The Observer.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 