'Unseen' News and Views
Latest estimates reveal that 3 in 10 people worldwide could not wash their hands with soap and water at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
GENEVA/NEW YORK, 1 July 2021 (UNICEF)* – Billions of people around the world will be unable to access safely managed household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services in 2030 unless the rate of progress quadruples, according to a new report from WHO and UNICEF.
AMBOVOMBE, MADAGASCAR, 27 June 2021 – The World Food Programme Executive Director, David Beasley, is urging the world to step-up and take action after bearing witness to the invisible crisis enveloping Southern Madagascar, where whole communities are teetering on the edge of starvation.
A new ILO report estimates that between 2017 and 2019 the number of international migrants has increased from 164 to 169 million.
We Stand on Each Other’s Shoulders
Cultural evolution depends on the non-genetic storage, transmission, diffusion and utilization of information.
John Scales Avery
The development of human speech, the invention of writing, the development of paper and printing, and finally, in modern times, mass media, computers and the Internet: all these have been crucial steps in society’s explosive accumulation of information and knowledge. Human cultural evolution proceeds at a constantly-accelerating speed.
Our modern civilization has been built up by means of a worldwide exchange of ideas and inventions. It is built on the achievements of many ancient cultures.
China, Japan, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, the Islamic world, Christian Europe, and the Jewish intellectual traditions, all have contributed.
Potatoes, corn, squash, vanilla, chocolate, chili peppers, and quinine are gifts from the American Indians.
Ethiopian refugee Mihret hid in the bush for days without food or water, to escape the Tigray conflict. Now safe in Sudan, she is using her engineering skills to assist her community. | Français
Mihret, 25, an Ethiopian refugee and engineer poses on top of a water tank in the mobile office base at Tunaydbah settlement, Sudan.
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(UN News)* — The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism could result in a more than $4 trillion loss to the global economy, UN trade and development body UNCTAD on 30 June 2021 said in a report issued jointly with the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
29 June 2021 (WMO)* — An exceptional and dangerous heatwave is baking the Northwestern USA and Western Canada in areas which are more synonymous with the cold. Temperatures are likely to reach as high as around 45.0°C by day for perhaps five or more days, with extremely warm nights in between.
(UN News)* — With over 4.6 billion internet users around the world, digital advances continue to revolutionize human life, but “we must remain vigilant” in the face of malicious technologies that “could imperil the security of future generations”, the head of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) told the Security Council on Tuesday [29 June 2021].
The Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives in Gibraltar for her first overseas port visit. The 65,000 tonne future flagship was conducting a routine logistics stop having left her home in Portsmouth a week earlier for helicopter trials | Author: Dave Jenkins – InfoGibraltar | Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
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‘We Are Human We Are Free’ announces the launch of the ‘7 Days Campaign to Resist The Great Reset’.
This worldwide nonviolent resistance movement is a strategy to resist the achievement of elite control through implementation of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’.
Our aim is to build a mass civil resistance movement to undermine the power of the Global Elite to control us, and to regain the freedoms that make our lives worth living.
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