'Unseen' News and Views
Nearly 100 people were reportedly killed during an attack on a traditional Dogon hunters’ village in Mali on Sunday [0 June 2019], prompting a call from UN chief António Guterres for authorities to act fast and “bring the perpetrators to justice”.
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(The Norwegian Refugee Council)* — On 5 June, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) launched its list of the ten most neglected crises in the world.
10 June 2019 (Human Rights Watch)* — The UK paints itself as a global champion on human rights, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s annual rights report is a key moment to demonstrate that commitment. Unfortunately, this year’s report fails to do so.
For the past 40 years, the United States and other advanced economies have been pursuing a free-market agenda of low taxes, deregulation, and cuts to social programs. There can no longer be any doubt that this approach has failed spectacularly; the only question is what will – and should – come next.
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What kind of economic system is most conducive to human wellbeing? That question has come to define the current era, because, after 40 years of neoliberalism in the United States and other advanced economies, we know what doesn’t work.
More reliable ground-level measurements are required to combat this silent killer of children, particularly in Africa where the problem is growing and gravely under-studied.
NEW YORK, 5 June 2019 (UNICEF)* – Only 6 per cent of children in Africa live in areas where air pollution is reliably measured at ground-level, leaving half a billion children across the continent living in areas with no reliable means of measuring air quality, according to a new UNICEF report released on World Environment Day.
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Targeting solidarity: Criminalization and harassment of people defending migrant and refugee rights in northern France reveals how people helping refugees and migrants in Calais and Grand-Synthe are targeted by the police and the court system.
UNHCR is promoting more learning opportunities and higher teaching standards for thousands of young Rohingya refugees.
The Sunflower temporary learning centre in Kutupalong Extension Camp 4 in south-east Bangladesh.© UNHCR/Roger Arnold
6 June 2019 (UNHCR)* — When Abu Sayed, father of six, thinks about the future of his children, he breaks down and weeps.
“My life is almost gone. If they cannot have an education, they will be ignorant,” he says, sitting in his family’s bamboo shelter in the vast Kutupalong refugee settlement, the largest in the world.
Women are engaged in all aspects of interaction with our ocean, yet their voices are often missing at the decision-making level, the head of the United Nations cultural agency said on World Oceans Day [8 June 2019] emphasizing that “we must ensure diversity and gender inclusiveness at all levels” to set a balanced course for humanity and foster innovative solutions for the ocean.
“We need to empower each and every citizen to take care of the ocean and enable all women to play transformative and ambitious roles in understanding, exploring, protecting and sustainably managing our ocean”, said Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, pointing out that this year’s “special edition” of World Oceans Day links the themes of gender equality and ocean preservation.
8 June 2019 — “The villagers knew that the military kidnapped [indigenous] people and brought them here and tortured them. While alive, they were forced to dig their own graves. Some would be buried in the ground, here, still half alive.” The chilling words of Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez, a member of an indigenous group in Guatemala.
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