'Unseen' News and Views
UN News/Nargiz Shekinskaya | A view of Semipalatinsk Test Site’s ground zero in Kurchatov, Kazakhstan. Remote Semipalatinsk was once the Soviet Union’s primary testing venue for nuclear weapons.
– The last frontier for utilizing and maybe even exhausting Earth´s natural resources is opening up in the Arctic and some of the world´s wealthiest nations are trying to secure their piece of the cake. Some act openly, others are more secretive – recently one of the competitors entered the game in a remarkably unwieldy manner.
Photo: Annie Spratt/Unspalash
29 August 2019 (IGWIA)* — While the international community is focusing its attention on the advancing fires in Brazil, the reality is that the problem transcends the South American giant and is reflected in the nine Amazonian countries.
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Fires in the Monte Verde Indigenous Territory in Bolivia. Photo: Territoria Indígena Monteverde
Beneath the ashes, the fire has shown (once again), a conflict that specialists have long pointed out: the implementation of a development model based on the extraction of natural resources at the expense of nature.
27 August 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Imagine getting endless deliveries that you didn’t order. Imagine a police car pulling into your driveway in the middle of the night, because someone from your mobile number texted and reported a murder or a kidnapping.
Imagine getting unknown phone calls every hour, blocking your flow of work or a peaceful night of sleep. Imagine strangers calling from around the country and come knocking on your door stalking all the time. Imagine losing your job because someone sent a hateful and abusive email to your boss and colleagues
The International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) team interviewed Faduma upon her arrival to Baidoa.
Faduma comes from Tubay village in Bakool region and is a mother of six children. The family has spent their lives as pastoralists who herd animals and tend to small rain-fed farms.
A view of the port of Lampedusa on the Italian island of the same name in the Mediterranean Sea. © UNHCR/Fred Noy
AGRIGENTO, Italy, 23 August 2019 (UNHCR)* – Feven* kept looking at her feet. The 18-year-old’s voice was a whisper amid dozens of asylum seekers at a reception center on the Italian island of Sicily. Memories of her ordeal are still fresh.
The legacy of nuclear testing is “nothing but destruction,” and in a world of rising tensions, “our collective security depends” on bringing a global treaty into force that bans nuclear explosions, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said.
– With the record rate blaze in the Amazon that struck Indigenous communities, the world is confronted by a humanitarian crisis in the midst of an ever-worsening political-economic condition.
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The International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) joins the international chorus of condemnation and call for immediate actions to put an end to the unfolding crisis that jeopardizes the lives of Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon and planet’s survival.
‘Gaza’, a Canadian-Irish documentary made by Andrew McConnell & Garry Keane, gives an insight into how people try to live their lives in this very difficult environment, whether a taxi-driver and his customers, a cello-playing girl or fishermen restricted by gunships to within 3 miles of the shore. It is showing in Belfast, Bristol, Dublin & Newcastle as well as in London and has been well-reviewed.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 