'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
The situation for ordinary Venezuelans is increasingly critical but the United Nations remains committed to providing humanitarian support, based on “need, and need alone”, said a senior aid official on Friday [8 February 2019].
6 February 2017 (UN News)* — While the exact number is unknown, at least 200 million girls and women in 30 countries throughout Africa, the Middle East and Asia have been subjected to female genital mutilation, or FGM, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
7 February 2019 (Other News)* — Suddenly -said Leonardo Da Vinci- there are no poor and rich, no young and old, no white and black on board… only a bunch of passengers toiling, working together to survive, to avoid a shipwreck.
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
This is the advice we should convey today through all media so that the “peoples” become aware of the situation humanity is facing for the first time in history.
In recent years a series of global threats have been recognized as potentially irreversible processes that need to be confronted and dealt with on time before it is too late.
The climate change has become an undeniable truth. The Arctic Ocean has nearly disappeared and the Antarctic is starting to crack.
We have not succeeded in our effort to reduce the emissions of “greenhouse” gases… and the habitability of Earth is experiencing a consistent deterioration.
7 February 2019 — Many of the world’s biggest problems may be going unsolved because too many women and girls are being discouraged from the sciences.
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7 February 2019 — Evidence collected in Turkey shows on initial examination, that former dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi was the victim of “a brutal and premeditated killing, planned and perpetrated by officials of the State of Saudi Arabia,” according to the United Nations expert conducting an independent human rights inquiry into his death.
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7 February 2019 — While nearly 10 million people across Yemen remain “just a step away from famine”, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator has spoken of his deep concern that a large food storage depot on the outskirts of the crucial port city of Hudaydah, has been out of bounds since last September.
What people should eat has become an important issue not only for dieticians, but also for environmentalists and even some religious faiths such as Jainism.
Dr Ravi P Bhatia
The former category promotes a balanced, middle way of food eating that boosts health, nutrition and has fewer risks of such common diseases such as heart attack, cancer or diabetes.
They suggest that people should eat a mixture of vegetables, meats and fruits.
The environmentalists are worried about how to feed a world population of eight billion without further degradation and harm to our planet.
They are emphasising the fact that meat eating is destroying our Earth.
They argue that meat eating is more harmful to the environment since animals eat plants and leaves and are then butchered to produce meat, thus further depleting the Earth’s green cover.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 