'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
11 June 2020 (ILO-International Labour Organization)* — The COVID-19 health pandemic and the resulting economic and labour market shock are having a huge impact on people’s lives and livelihoods. Unfortunately, children are often the first to suffer. The crisis can push millions of vulnerable children into child labour.
A protester clenches her fist as she stands in front of German police officers following a Black Lives Matter vigil at Alexanderplatz square in Berlin, Germany 06 June 2020. [Omer Messinger/EPA]
“It is absurd to consider that racism is an exclusively American scourge. It gangrenes all over the world and in Europe in particular,” French MEP and co-chair of the European Parliament Anti-Racism and Diversity Inter-Group Younous Omarjee (GUE/NGL) told EURACTIV. The issue is that Europe just is not talking about it as much.
Human Rights Watch Testimony to US House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee
Healthcare workers at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital show their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement during the coronavirus pandemic, New York, June 4, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
Washington, DC – The United States government should take bold steps to end human rights violations and structural racism driving racial disparities in Covid-19 and spurring mass protests across the country, Human Rights Watch said today [10 June 2020] in written testimony to the Ways and Means Committee of the US House of Representatives.
Available data indicates that black and brown people in the United States are more likely to suffer severe illness and die from Covid-19.
(UN News)* — Journalists covering ongoing protests denouncing systemic racism and police brutality in the United States must be able to do their job in peace, two experts on the right to freedom of expression said on Wednesday [10 June 2020].
