'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
Castillo, who participates in the World Encounter Against Imperialism, remarked that there is a systematic massacre occurring in his country.
Demonstrators take part in a protest against the government of Colombia’s President Ivan Duque, in Bogota, Colombia, January 21, 2020. | Photo: Reuters (Photo posted here from teleSUR).
The head of the UN health agency, WHO (World Health Organization), declared on Thursday [23 January 2020] that the respiratory disease Novel Coronavirus, is not yet an official Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), but warned that is an emergency in China.*
However, after two days of deliberations, the WHO Emergency Committee, which advises the head of the agency, was divided on whether to declare a PHEIC.
24 January 2020 (RT)* — The World Health Organization (WHO) held off designating a new fast-spreading coronavirus as an international health threat, but did deem it a crisis within China, where the pathogen has infected some 830 people and killed 26.
FILE PHOTO: A worker in a protective suit is seen at the closed seafood market in Wuhan, China, the suspected origin point of a novel coronavirus gripping the country. © Reuters / Stringer. (Photo posted here from RT’s article).
1 Jan 2020 – Press Release
Mairead Maguire Resigned Today from the Nobel Women’s Initiative Board and Organization
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Maguire, who won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in peacemaking in Northern Ireland and is a co-founder of The Peace People, Ireland said:
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The world is “doomed” in the face of climate change unless major industrial nations reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday [23 January 2020]. (*).
(UN News)* — Myanmar must take steps to protect its minority Rohingya population, the top UN court unanimously ruled on Thursday [23 January 2020].
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) also ordered authorities to prevent the destruction of evidence related to genocide allegations.
