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united-nations: In honour of International Women’s Day (8 March), take a look at this new map on women’s political participation created by UN Women and Inter-Parliamentary Union.
The Door, the movie based on Magda Szabó’s famous novel comes out this week in Hungary directed by Academy Award Winning director István Szabó (no relation, it’s a very common name in Hungary). Recently I was lucky enough to attend a public talk with István Szabó about the movie, the cast, the novel and some background stories. We learned that it wasn’t the director’s idea to make this movie, he was asked to do it. The Door is one of the late Magda Szabó’s most well-known pieces of work translated into 38 languages. It is also one of her autobiographical…
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Great video explaining the role of primaries in the US electoral system. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
UN reform needed according to president of General Assembly 66th elected president of the UN General Assembly, Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser urges UN reform in a recent interview saying that the attitude of Russia and China towards Syria proves how the given rules are unsuitable for solving crises like this. “The world has changed; the UN should also reform itself to deal with the issues of today. Sixty years ago who could imagine we’ll be discussing climate change, food security, or the world would reach seven billion people, so we need to see a more active and effective UN. In the Security Council…
