International Labour Organization revealed that child labor had increased for the first time in two decades | Image fromWall Street International.
I am writing this opinion essay today in my quality as the Convenor of Nobel Laureates and Leaders for Children, supporting the Fair Share to End Child Labour campaign.
My friend and colleague Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2014) is an extraordinary man, very much in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi.
Upon completion of his university studies at age 20 and as he was readying himself to wed his childhood sweetheart Sumedha, rather than starting a career as an electric engineer, Kailash sat down with his soon-to-be wife, told her, I want to help free children from slavery.
NEW YORK, 19 July 2021(UNICEF)* – “As the official COVID-19 death toll around the world passed 4 million earlier this month, UNICEF is increasingly concerned for children left without one or both parents.
UNICEF/UNI394756/DejonghChildren working at a mine site in Burkina Faso
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 19 2021 (IPS)* – With Henrietta Fore’s decision last week to step down as UNICEF Executive Director, her successor is most likely to be another American since that post has been held– uninterruptedly — by US nationals for almost 74 years, an unprecedented all-time record for a high-ranking job in the UN system.
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore meets with students at the Roberto Suazo Córdoba School, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Credit: UNICEF/Bindra
20 July 2021 (WMO)* — Amazonia hosts the Earth’s largest tropical forests and has been shown to be an important carbon sink. This carbon sink seems to be in decline, however, as a result of factors such as deforestation and climate change, according to a new paper published in Nature.
The study was led by Lucia Gatti, Group Leader, Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research /Center of Earth System Science and a member of the steering committee for the Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System spearheaded by WMO.
20 July 2021 (UNEP)* — For years it appeared as though Lake Turkana, which sits in an arid part of northern Kenya, was drying up.
UNEP/Duncan Moore / 19 Jul 2021
Its main river inflows had been muffled by dams and many feared water levels were poised to drop by two-thirds, causing the lake to cleave into two smaller bodies of water. It was, one report said, an African “Aral Sea disaster in the making” – where only 10 per cent remains of the original sea.
MEXICO CITY, Jul 19 2021 (IPS)* – In June, the Department of Homeland Security made a critical announcement. For the first time in U.S. history, more than 15 national and local agencies and civilian organizations conducted a simultaneous major binational operation to find missing children inside and outside the United States.
Rosi Orozco
They called it “Operation Lost Souls”. Its objective was to find girls and boys who were missing and possibly deceived or kidnapped by sexual exploitation gangs.
The secret operation lasted a week. And the result announced by Special Agent Erik Breitzke surprised even the organizers: 24 minors were recovered and, among them, three were located in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
There are serious gaps in our knowledge about how violent extremists get their hands on weapons and money.
Far right supporters commemorate the death of Benito Mussolini on 2 May 2021 | Piero Cruciatti/Alamy Stock Photo. All rights reserved.
18 July 2021 (openDemocracy)* — In the 1970s and early 1980s, Italy was plagued by a spate of violence and deadly terrorist attacks – the so-called “Years of Lead” (anni di piombo).
Technology is the answer! But what is the question?
London’s great smog of 1952 which led to thousands of deaths from inhaling coal smoke on which Britain relied for electricity | Image fromWall Street International.
July 2021 (Wall Street International)* — In the 19th and 20th centuries most, new technologies were equated with our societies’ progress. We loved electricity, automobiles, airplanes, telephones, radio, television, the Internet and space exploration.
Pegasus: Human rights-compliant laws needed to regulate spyware
Unsplash/Chris Yang | The UN says it’s concerned about the potential misuse of surveillance technology to illegally undermine people’s human rights.
(UN News)* — The UN human rights chief on 19 July 2021 said the apparent widespread use of Pegasus spy software to illegally undermine the rights of those under surveillance, including journalists and politicians, was “extremely alarming” and confirmed “some of the worst fears” surrounding the potential misuse of such technology.
London’s great smog of 1952 which led to thousands of deaths from inhaling coal smoke on which Britain relied for electricity | Image from 
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 