'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
Rome, 14 November 2019 — This year the Worldwide Web is thirty years old. For the first time since 1435, a citizen from Brazil could exchange their views and information with another in Finland. The Internet, the communications infrastructure for the Web is a little older.
Credit: Unsplash/Markus Spiske @markusspisk
15 November 2019 (UN Environment)* — Behind a family home not far from downtown Apia, a small mountain of computer cases teeters in the tropical sun at over 3 metres high. Nearby, stacks of thousands of circuit boards create rolling green foothills. Steel drums, plastic buckets and fraying carboard boxes dot this electronic landscape—overflowing reservoirs of connectors, transistors and wires.
Photo posted here from UN Environment
“He’s dismantled thousands of computers in the last couple years,” says Marina Keil, the President of the Samoa Recycling and Waste Management Association, gesturing at the piles surrounding us.
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15 November 2019 (UNESCO)* — One of the main obstacles refugees and migrants face when applying for higher education or seeking work in their new countries is the lack of recognition of their prior studies and qualifications. How do we solve this challenge?
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15 November 2019 — At a time when extremism and fanaticism are too often unleashed, when “the venom of hatred” continues to poison a part of humanity, “tolerance has never been more vital a virtue”, the United Nations cultural agency’s chief has said in her message on the International Day for Tolerance. (*).
Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday [14 November 2019] authorized an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity, namely deportation, which have forced between 600,000 and one million Rohingya refugees out of Myanmar, into neighboring Bangladesh since 2016. (*).
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Since the beginning of the year, the UN Migration Agency has carried out over one million health consultations for displaced and conflict-affected Yemenis and migrants struggling to reach the help they need, the organization announced on Friday [15 November 2019]. (*)
