'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
School strikes have been taking place since November when 16-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden spoke in front of the planet’s decision makers at COP24.
From then onwards her example to stand outside her school every Friday to protest against political inaction has slowly but surely been taken up by school kids and students all over the world.
On the occasion of International Migrants Day, the ILO premieres a new documentary that aims to challenge common perceptions about migrant domestic workers.
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BEIRUT, 18 December 2018 (ILO)* – Like millions of others, Soma, now 57, left her home, friends and young children to become a domestic worker and provide for her family.
Some 30 years later, she travelled to her home village in Sri Lanka with Nour Sidani, the 24-year-old Lebanese woman she helped raise.
8 December 2018 – Paving the way to the key UN migration conference in Marrakech, Morocco, which it is hoped will agree new measures to make life safer and more dignified for people on the move, UN agencies held a series of side events to highlight the different aspects of migration, paying special attention to the most vulnerable, and the challenges they face on their often perilous journeys.
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Protecting the planet rests on this generation’s youth and their inclination “to hold leaders and decision-makers accountable,” especially in the combat against climate change, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on 21 November 2018 told university students in China.“Do not take this planet for granted – it is the only one we have,” she said, addressing Tsinghua University students.
Half of all people living in poverty are younger than 18 years old, according to estimates from a new report released on 20 September 2018 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and partners.
The new figures in the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) show that in 104 primarily low- and middle-income countries, 662 million children are considered poor according to multiple different indicators. In 35 of these countries.
Children account for at least 50 per cent of the total.
The report, A future stolen: young and out-of-school, looks at the education situation of children and young people from pre-primary to upper secondary age across all countries, including those affected by humanitarian emergencies.
Huge opportunities exist for youth across the entire agricultural value chain.
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Kigali, 22 August 2018 (FAO)* – Creating decent employment opportunities for youth in Africa’s agriculture sector can significantly reduce youth migration from the continent, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, said in his closing remarks at this week’s international youth conference held in Rwanda.
“We firmly believe that if you [the youth] are provided these opportunities, you will not leave the continent to look for opportunities elsewhere,” Graziano da Silva said.
The refugee crisis in Bangladesh sparked by the mass exodus of people from Myanmar almost a year ago risks creating a “lost generation” of Rohingya children who lack the life skills they will need in future, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned.
Hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim Rohingya continue to live in cramped and rudimentary camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, after fleeing a military operation in Myanmar that was subsequently likened to “ethnic cleansing” by the UN’s top human rights official, Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein.
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