'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
Thimphu, BHUTAN, 4 November 2019 (UNFPA)* -– “There was a time when I would be menstruating and didn’t know what to do during those days… Now I do.” These candid reflections came from an unexpected source: a nun sitting cross-legged on the floor of an astrology college in the capital of Bhutan.
(Greenpeace International)* — It is not news that the Brazilian government has been failing to protect Indigenous lands and Indigenous rights. But due to ever-increasing invasion of their territories by land grabbers, loggers and even drug traffickers, the Indigenous Peoples from several groups in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil decided to take the matter into their own hands.
Paulo Paulino Guajajara, a leader of the Guajajara Indigenous group was ambushed and killed by illegal loggers who invaded his land in Brazil. © Midia Ninja | Photo posted here from Greenpeace International.
A fire burns a tract of the Amazon jungle in Agua Boa, Mato Grosso state, Brazil September 4, 2019. | Photo: Reuters (Photo posted here from teleSUR).
7 November 2019 (teleSUR)* — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon region increased by 80 percent in September compared to the same month last year, according to a private study released on Wednesday stating that 802 square kilometers of forest was lost in the zone.
For the 28th consecutive year, the UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for an end to the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba. *
A rapid spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) is wiping out pig herds in China, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday [7 November 2019], and the killer disease has led to a drop in world meat production for the first time in more than 20 years, with other global staples also facing new threats. *.
