'Unseen' News and Views
The world “has failed” to sufficiently protect children caught up in conflict and millions more are at risk of harm, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) revealed on 28 December 2018, adding that national leaders need to hold perpetrators of violence more accountable.*
Trends affecting humanitarian affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory*
West Bank demolitions and displacement | January 2018 | Photo by OCHA
Today [27 December 2018], the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) released a summary of data collected during 2018. Further breakdowns and statistics from previous years are available through the links below.
Aerial view of the Zocalo square during AMLO Fest to celebrate MeMexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) inaugurated in Mexico City, Dec 1, 2018. | Photo: Reuters | Photo from teleSUR..
Central American Exodus – Migrant Caravan: Migrants Find Strength in Unity
Over 10,000 Central Americans left out of the Northern Triangle-Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador-beginning in mid-October in what they named an Exodus finding strength in unity to take on a one month, 3,000km trek through Mexico to the United States to request asylum from the Donald Trump administration.
In the run-up to Sunday’s [30 December 2018) general elections in Bangladesh, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “an environment free of violence, intimidation and coercion” to allow a “peaceful, credible and inclusive poll.”
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of the ruling Awami League Party is seeking a third consecutive term, while her main rival for the top job, former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who leads the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), remains in jail on corruption charges which she says were politically motivated.
“The people who live near the dump have a saying,” says Father Binaghi: “‘I don’t know when I will die, but I do know what I will die from.’”
Korogocho literally means “crowded shoulder to shoulder” in Kiswahili. It is one of the largest slums in Nairobi, home to 150,000 to 200,000 peopleand no larger than 1.5 square kilometres. The place is known for its high rates of poverty, crime, alcohol and drug abuse, domestic violence, widespread HIV/Aids… and the nauseating smells coming from Dandora.
Photo from World Meteorological Organization.
Emissions rose 1.6% in 2017 after a temporary slowdown from 2014 to 2016, according to the Global Carbon Project. This year’s publication included contributions from 76 scientists from 53 research institutions, including from the World Climate Research Programme community.
Japan will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), an Inter-governmental organization that did not allow the Asian country to hunt whales commercially.
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A Japanese ship injuring a whale with its first harpoon attempt in the Southern Ocean. | Photo: EFE | Photo from teleSur.
25 December 2018 — The construction of sand dams which retain water above and below sand bars, is improving access to water supplies for people in Somalia as the country continues to weather periods of damaging drought.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 