17 April 2020 (Human Rights Watch)* — In Brooklyn, New York, an Asian woman suffered an apparently race-based acid attackwhile taking out her garbage on April 5. A few weeks earlier in Texas, a man targeted and stabbed a Burmese-American man and his two children, ages 2 and 6, at a Sam’s Club.
April 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Everything seems to be always in a process of mixing ingredients and the generation of an intermediate or perhaps final product. An evolution.
In the processes of synthesis, dilution, or amalgamation, two or several factors or elements combine and achieve a different state of being together, in accordance with the energies that each brings to the process. During the combination moment all is very unstable and unsettled.
NEW YORK, Apr 17 2020 (IPS)* – The current financial crisis, triggered as a result of withholding or delaying payment of assessed contributions by Member States, is nothing new to the United Nations.
Security Council Members Hold Open videoconference meeting in a locked down UN building. Credit: United Nations
Geneva, 17 April 2020 (IOM)* – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) expresses grave concerns for the fate of hundreds of migrants returned to Libya by the coast guard this year who are now unaccounted for.
IOM Libya staff last week provided food and water to hundreds of migrants returned to Tripoli by the coast guard. Photo: IOM/2020
17 April 2020 (UN News)* — The UN human rights office (OHCHR), is calling for compassion for people desperately seeking shelter, after 30 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar died on a boat in the Bay of Bengal that had spent nearly two months at sea.
IOM/Mohammed | Rohingya refugees fleeing conflict and persecution in Myanmar (file photo).
COVID-19 cases are rising daily amid the dense vegetation of the world’s largest rainforest and triggering a growing sense of fear for survival.With their population now at around 900,000, the coronavirus has reawakened fears of extermination. | Photo: EFE
17 April 2020 (teleSUR)* — Deforestation, fires, land invasions, and now the coronavirus – Indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon are isolating themselves from the pandemic in remote jungle areas to dodge a health crisis that has already claimed its first lives in their communities.
In this March 31, 2020, photo, Kyle Navarro poses in San Francisco. The school nurse was unlocking his bicycle when an older white man called him a racial slur and spat at him. © 2020 AP/ Jeff Chiu
With their population now at around 900,000, the coronavirus has reawakened fears of extermination. | Photo: EFE