'Unseen' News and Views
The trade tariff spat between China and the United States has been a “lose-lose” situation for both countries and the wider world and it is likely to deteriorate unless a deal is reached, UN economists said on Tuesday [5 November 2019]. *
Vandana Shiva
It is significant that at a time in history when a global economic paradigm shift is being loudly and clearly demanded due to the evident and documented failure of the current system of production, global trade and distribution that is leading us to environmental and climate catastrophe, this same apparatus of enormous corporate interests and highly paid lobbyists that disseminate false information, with ill-concealed concern, are putting to task the Italian Minister of Education, Lorenzo Fioramonti.
NEW YORK, 4 November 2019 (UNICEF)* -– “The latest escalation in northeast Syria brings a renewed urgency for governments to repatriate foreign children stranded in the area before it is too late.
© UNICEF/Delil Souleimain Families fleeing escalating violence in northeast Syria arrive in Tal Tamar. They arrive with the bare essentials they were able to carry as they fled the violence.
National governments have the responsibility and opportunity now to do the right thing and bring these children and their parents home where they can receive adequate care and be safe from violence and abuse.
4 November 2019 (UNHCR)* — Land route through Africa twice as deadly as Mediterranean, says UNHCR.
Image from UNHCR.
The UN refugee agency’s special envoy for the central Mediterranean, Vincent Cochetel, told a German newspaper, Welt am Sonntag, on Sunday [3 November 2019] that while more than 1,000 people have died or gone missing attempting to cross the Mediterranean this year, the land journey across Africa to reach the Mediterranean is even more lethal.
5 November 2019 (UN Environment)* — Message from UN Environment’s Executive Director on the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict:
Unbearable levels of air pollution in India’s capital of New Delhi, declared a public health emergency by the local government as of Monday [4 November 2019], have made “the invisible killer, visible”, a UN senior pollution expert has said. *
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The United States announced on Monday [4 November 2019] that it was formally beginning the process of withdrawal from the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, signed by 193 countries in 2015. *
The UN Spokesperson’s Office issued a note to correspondents, in reaction to the notice of withdrawal, which came from US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, addressed to the Secretary-General:
“We must protect our economy from this great threat,” Australia’s PM Scott Morrison said.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrisson is an evangelical Christian and a very vocal supporter of United States President Donald (Photo from teleSUR).
3 November 2019 (teleSUR)* — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison attacked environmental activists and vowed to prohibit climate campaigns aimed at boycotting businesses that collaborate with the fossil fuel industry Friday [1 November 2019] in a speech delivered to the Queensland Resources Council, a group representing mining interests.
China’s Gender Imbalance Having Devastating Regional Consequences
By Heather Barr *Acting Co-Director, Women’s Rights Division heatherbarr1
A 15-year old girl is rescued from the rubble of her house in central Sulawesi in Indonesia hit by an earthquake and tsunami in September 2018. This is the sixth fatal tsunami to strike the country since the huge 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. According to the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Indonesia has suffered more deaths from tsunamis than any other country. © UNICEF/Tirto.id/@Arimacswilander
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