'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
Algeria must stop arbitrary expulsion of West African migrants in desert: UN migration rights expert.
My dear grandchildren,
when I was in my 20´s, back in the sixty’s, the world was in great turmoil, many thought the threat of nuclear war was imminent and there were proxy armed conflicts going on everywhere.
Students were protesting the war and the establishment, many were being imprisoned, or wounded or killed in the streets of Paris, Mexico City and Kent University. The forces of hatred and fear were rampant. It seemed then that like Bob Dylan’s song said, the “hard rains are going to fall”.
Experts believe the negative effect of South Sudan’s conflict on civilians’ mental health has been staggering. Español
Nyakor, 28, is still haunted by the atrocities she witnessed before fleeing Juba, South Sudan. | © UNHCR/Will Swanson
After physically assaulting her, one of the attackers took out a pocket knife and carved a sign, similar to a swastika, into her stomach.
The swastika is well known around the world to be associated with the Nazi regime of the 1930s and 1940s. | Photo: Reprodução | Photo from teleSUR.
A young girl lights a candle at the Typhoon Haiyan 4th Anniversary in Tacloban, Philippines (2017) © Roy Lagarde / Greenpeace
It’s 5am, and Joanna Sustento wakes to the strong howling of the wind outside. She knows that a storm is due to hit where she lives, but thinks little of it, reassured by the calmness of her parents.
11 October 2018 (UN Environment)* – Air pollution can have a “huge” negative effect on cognitive intelligence – especially amongst older men– according to a study released this past August.
The research is one of the first of its kind to focus on the links between air pollution and cognition in older people.
It was undertaken by scientists at Peking University in Beijing, China and Yale University in the U.S. and was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. In particular, it found that long-term exposure to air pollution may impede overall cognitive performance.
The reintegration of former members of the Colombian FARC-EP rebel movement, which signed an historic peace deal with the country’s government in 2016, remains a subject of serious concern, said the head of the UN Verification Mission set up to monitor the deal, on 10 October 2018.
UN Photo/Hector Latorre UN Mission in Colombia extracts weapons caches (file)
Jean Arnault warned members of the Security Council that the vast majority of those being reintegrated still have no clear economic prospects or livelihoods, once the monthly sum they currently receive as part of the peace process, comes to an end next August.
There are “multiple barriers” including “systemic discrimination” bias and lack of training, which are keeping the largest generation of girls in human history from reaching their full potential, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a statement on 11 October 2018, marking International Day of the Girl Child.
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