'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
French President Emmanuel Macron holds a press conference at the end of the European Council summit in Brussels, Belgium, 13 December 2019. [EPA-EFE/JULIEN WARNAND Like many countries in the world, Australia had several indigenous peoples, often called aboriginals or tribes, living in this subcontinent.
St Patrick’s Cathedral
Again, as in other countries, these peoples were conquered, crushed and their cultures, cuisines, knowledge systems destroyed.
These peoples have become extinct except for a few stray tribes who still exist in small numbers and who are difficult to see in most places.
One such place is called Toowoomba about 150 km from the modern city Brisbane located in the province of Queensland on the eastern coast of the country.
This place is beautiful, peaceful, serene, full of gardens, and open areas. As they say in Toowoomba, it has pleasant weather on one day and perfect the next.
– Appearing before 17 judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto civilian leader of Myanmar, became a public apologist for the military government of Myanmar which has long been accused of genocide and forcing over 730,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh since a 2017 crackdown.
International Court of Justice in The Hague. Credit: United Nations
BANGKOK (FAO)* –– Three million undernourished people in Asia and the Pacific must be lifted out of hunger each month from now on, if the region is to meet the SDG 2 Zero Hunger goal by the end of 2030, says a new report released today [11 December 2019] by four United Nations agencies.
Social protection initiatives have great potential to help in eradicating hunger and malnutrition. In the photo: local school children eat their meals at the Ban Bor Primary School in Xay District, Lao People’s Democratic Republic.13 December 2019 (UN News)* — During the recent mass protests which led Chile to declare a state of emergency, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a report published on Friday [13 December 2019] that international human rights norms had been violated by both police and army personnel, which should be prosecuted.
13 December 2019 (UN News)* — A new law in India which expedites citizenship for certain religious minorities has been criticized by the UN human rights office for being “fundamentally discriminatory in nature.”
