'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
Lucky Choolwe, a field facilitator for Grassroots Trust in Zambia, which engages with land owners and policy-makers to regenerate eco-systems, conducts a practical session with farmers on FMNR. Courtesy: Friday Phiri.
Robert J. Burrowes
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 27 July 2019 — I have previously written a summary of the interrelated psychological, sociological, political-economic, military, nuclear, ecological and climate threats to human survival on Earth which threaten human extinction by 2026. See ‘Human Extinction by 2026? A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival’.
The relentless campaign of airstrikes in Syria has been met with a “collective shrug,” the top United Nations human rights official said on Friday [26 July 2019], denouncing the world’s apparent indifference to the mounting civilian casualties as a “failure of leadership” by the world’s most powerful countries.
Geneva, 26 July 2019 (IOM)* – A new report out today (26/07) examines the connection between migration and modern slavery and focuses on which migrants are most vulnerable to being forced into modern slavery, and under what circumstances.
Prepared by Minderoo Foundation’s Walk Free initiative and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the Alliance 8.7 Action Group on Migration, the report provides recommendations on key steps governments can take to address this risk.
The report confirms certain sub-groups of migrants are at particular risk.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, along with the heads of a number of UN agencies, expressed horror at Thursday’s [25 July 2019] reports that as many as 150 people may be dead after a boat they were traveling in capsized off the coast of Libya, making it the worst such tragedy in the Mediterranean this year.
This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group.
– The United States is no exception to the practice of modern day slavery—a crime for which it is rarely held accountable at the United Nations.
