'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
FAO says demand driven by economic growth in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific
A worker inspects a load of timber at Chetumal in Quintana Roo in Mexico.ROME, 19 December 2019 (FAO)* – The global production and trade of major wood products such as industrial roundwood, sawnwood and wood-based panels have surged to their highest level since the Food and Agriculture Organization began recording forest statistics in 1947.
Alternative Livelihoods
18 December 2019 (UN Environment)* — “This year, we’ve seen the worst drought ever,” says Julliette Machona. “Usually the rivers run dry here in this southern part of Zambia by July, but this year, they were empty already in May. The little water we have left is just enough for us, the people and the cattle. We have no water left to raise any crops.”
Photo by UN-REDD Programme
Machona is 35 years old, with four kids. When she finished secondary school in Zambia, her parents couldn’t afford to send her to university at a cost of about US$2,000 per year, particularly given minimum wage is about a US$100 a month.
New York/Rome, 19 December 2019 (FAO)* — FAO welcomes today’s decision by the United Nations to create two new international days and one international year devoted to issues directly related to food and agriculture.
If you’re looking for a treatise on the joys of love-making between consenting, autonomous adults, read no further.
Marilyn Langlois
In fact, what follows quite the inverse, revealing an ongoing nightmare of child sexual violence that lurks just beneath the surface of our collective consciousness and has infected the highest circles of power.
After all, who wants to think about such things? But ignoring them will not make them go away.
Pedophilia, human trafficking, kiddie porn are terms that pop up here and there in news reports and local crime blotters.
In the past, these terms conjured up for me distasteful notions of creepy men lusting after and fondling boys or girls, run-away adolescents being manipulated into prostitution, and adults watching videos of teenagers engaging in sex.
– Around 3 pm on 16 October 2017, Daphne Caruana Aruna Galizia was returning home when her Peugeot suddenly exploded 80 metres from her house outside of Bidnjia, a small town 15 km from Malta´s capital Valletta.
Her son Matthew heard the violent blast and rushed out to find the smoldering wreck of the car on a field by the road: “I looked down and there were my mother’s body parts all around me”.
Her scattered body had hit the ground 10 metres from the demolished vehicle.1
More women could soon have access to an affordable version of an expensive life-saving breast cancer treatment, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday [18 December 2019]. (*)
(UN News)* — Two decades of increasing tobacco use around the world are set to go into reverse, UN health experts have predicted, after revealing data indicating that fewer men and boys are smoking than before.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 