October (Wall Street International* — Ancient culture of China has made great contributions to world culture. Book of Changes is one of the most precious contributions of Chinese culture, which has exerted a great influence on Chinese philosophy, literature, historical study, as well as natural and social sciences.
The Book of Changes is the very basis of Chinese culture, the principal source of Chinese philosophy. social sciences and natural sciences. It has greatly influenced the history of Chinese civilization.
At Our Ocean Conference, FAO Director-General urges reversing “dangerous sustainability divide” in fisheries management
FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu speaks at the Our Ocean Conference in Oslo.
OSLO, 23 October 2019 (FAO)* – Serious investments in ocean sustainability will raise the amount of fish to feed the poor, helping drive progress towards the eradication of hunger which is the lynchpin for achieving the other Sustainable Development Goals, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said today [23 October 2019].
In an average southern hemisphere spring, the hole expands throughout September and mid October to a maximum extent of about 21 million square kilometres (8 million square miles), an area larger than the United States and Canada combined.
In 2019, the hole reached 16.4 million square kilometers (6.3 million square miles) on September 8, but then shrank to less than 10 million square kilometres (3.9 million square miles) for the remainder of September and the first half of October.
Brussels, 23 October 2019* — The dramatic flight of millions of Venezuelans has resulted in one of the direst displacement crises in the world and the largest in the recent history of the region. Nearly 80 per cent of the approximately 4.5 million Venezuelans who left their country have remained in Latin America or the Caribbean.
“A coup is underway, carried out by the right-wing with foreign support…what are the methods of this coup attempt?”
President Evo Morales. | Photo: Bolivian presidency
23 October 2019 (teleSUR)* — Bolivia’s leftist President Evo Morales gave a press conference early Wednesday [23 October 2019] morning in which he warned that a right-wing coup attempt is being carried out so as to stop the full counting of votes, and annul the result of Sunday’s elections if it gives Morales a first-round victory.
A local NGO published what they believe to be the causes of the 15 deaths which they say are shots fired by soldiers, blows to the skull and thorax and for being hit by military vehicles.
Police crackdown on protesters. | Photo: Reuters (Photo fromteleSUR).
23 October 2019 (teleSUR)* — The National Institute of Human Rights in Chile (INDH) has confirmed that they have received cases of possible torture at the hands of the authorities amid protests that began against public transport fare hikes but have extended into an uprising against President Piñera’s neoliberal policies.
By UN News* — The international community has a responsibility and legal obligation to compel Israel to end its 52 year-long “occu-annexation” of Palestinian territory and remove barriers preventing Palestinian self-determination, a UN independent human rights expert told the General Assembly on Wednesday [23 October 2019].
World Bank/Natalia Cieslik | Children walk on road in Gaza, where the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) maintain food assistance to over one million Palestine refugees.
Michael Lynk made the call in his latest report on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory: the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
