'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
(UN News)* — Children face violence and bullying at school all over the world, with one in every three students subject to attacks at least once a month and one in 10, a victim of cyberbullying, the UN said on Thursday [5 November 2020].
The warning from UNESCO, the UN organization for education, science and culture, based on 2019 data, coincides with the first International Day against Violence and Bullying at School – Including Cyberbullying, on 5 November.
Letter to Greta Thunberg: why maintaining a gas-guzzler may cause less harm than buying a new e-vehicle
3 November 2020 (Wall Street International)*
Dear Greta,
You know how manufacturers promote electric vehicles (EVs) because they have “zero-emissions?” I wonder if this is really true.
4 November 2020 (UN News)* — The UN climate change secretariat, UNFCCC, has underlined its commitment to work with stakeholders in the United States and beyond, to accelerate climate action, in line with an historic treaty on limiting global warming and curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
5 November 2020 (United Nations)* — Though humanity has always counted its war casualties in terms of dead and wounded soldiers and civilians, destroyed cities and livelihoods, the environment has often remained the unpublicized victim of war. Water wells have been polluted, crops torched, forests cut down, soils poisoned, and animals killed to gain military advantage.
