'Unseen' News and Views
Aerial view of some the destruction caused by the heavy seismic vehicles in the forest © Igor Podgorny / Greenpeace
Seismic testing is a geophysical study of the earth’s crust to look for valuable minerals and oil. The tests are being conducted carelessly and hastily.
In 2017, villagers from Ust-Usa and Novikbozh demanded an end to oil exploration works in the lower lands of the Pechora River.
Listen to the latest FAO podcast that focuses on biodiversity and what its loss will mean for humankind.*
Bees, soils, trees – even the tiny organisms we can’t even see – all play a vital role in producing the world’s food. Yet, this biodiversity that supports our food and agriculture is in serious decline. So what does that mean for our future food? Dan Leskien from the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture explains.*
Interview: Charlotta Lomas, FAO.
Kandinsky’s statement emphasizes ideas of beginning, of origin, of causality. When one thinks of beginning, of start, one looks for origins, for causes of the existing.
Discovering the beginning is the great question of science, it embraces every idea of creator and creature, referring to an absolute, an explanatory cause of everything.
Where does the self begin? When does the world begin? What is the cause of great passions and unfulfilled, interrupted encounters? What is the abysmal instant that collapses perspectives, the point responsible for change, for the contingent continuity that creates intersection?
“I did not believe in the existence of Ebola,” she said. “Like many, I took the disease for a [story] made up by politicians.”
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is no stranger to Ebola. This is the country’s tenth Ebola outbreak – but it is the first time the densely populated province of North Kivu, an active conflict zone, has been affected.
Ms. Masika contracted the disease while taking care of her sick aunt.
The United Nations’ gender equality entity puts spotlight on public services, income security, safe spaces and technology to advance progress for women and girls.
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New York (UN Women)* – In celebration of International Women’s Day on 8 March, UN Women is celebrating its 2019 theme of “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change”, along with hosting hundreds of festivities around the world through the organization’s global network.
With over 3,800 civilian women, children and men killed in just one year, Afghanistan has hit yet another “deeply disturbing and wholly unacceptable” record, according to a new report issued on Sunday [24 February 2019] by the UN political mission in the country (UNAMA) and the UN human rights office (OHCHR).*
23 February 2019 — Gender equality, the marginalization of indigenous languages, migration, the refugee crisis, the lives of domestic workers, poverty… All these issues which are at the heart of the United Nations’ work, are also front and centre in some of the films celebrated this year at the Academy Awards.*
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