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Happy last Sunday of the year, people! I hope all your holidays were merry and bright and you are ready for the year end festivities. This one’s going to be the shortest round-up ever, since most of my favorite bloggers spent their well deserved days off this week and even the first half of the week was quite uneventful with not much to write about. There will be the inevitable year-end round-ups, I will devote a separate post for them later next week. See you then! Christmas celebrations are banned in Somalia, Tajikistan and Brunei They say the reason for…
Happy Holidays, everybody! How is it that I become too exhausted to enjoy the preparations every single year by this time? Tons of work, studies, Christmas shopping, multiple Christmas fair + mulled wine sessions with friends, hosting family, cooking my annual Christmas cookies for colleagues, this is just how my last couple of days looked like, and again, lots of work to come for the next three days as well… Oh and did I mention the anxiety over some unarrived (I know, I just made this word up) Christmas presents? I am so much in need of some sleep time…
Happy Sunday, all! The end of the year is quickly approaching, I honestly have no idea where did all those days and weeks go… I had a crazy week again, I fell behind with all the reading (note: this is a very last minute post!) and studies, and what is worse, I am literally nowhere with the Christmas preparations. I’ll have lots of catching up to do this coming week in more than one areas. BUT, we have a Climate Agreement, people!! This is surely the news of the week, see details below. Now, let’s all hope it can really…
united-nations: 7 billion people. 195 countries. One #ParisAgreement toward a better future for all. On Saturday afternoon world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris #COP21 have adopted a historic agreement to keep the global temperature rise ‘well below’ 2°C. See the text here: bit.ly/1Qlgyi2 #COP21 #Climate Change #ParisAgreement #UN
united-nations: Our Rights. Our Freedoms. Always. On Thursday’s Human Rights Day, make sure you know YOUR rights and freedoms. United Nations Human Rights explains here: http://www.un.org/en/events/humanrightsday/ Today is Human Rights Day! The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this day 67 years ago. Do you know your rights?
The UN General Assembly in the 2003 UN Convention against Corruption designated 9 December as International Anti-Corruption Day, to raise awareness of corruption and of the role of the Convention in combating and preventing it. Check out http://www.anticorruptionday.org/ to learn more. 2015′s theme is “break the corruption chain”:
Happy Sunday Everybody! This week I have won access to all of Levo’s Ultimate Career Toolkit guides! I can’t wait to try and utilize them in my career planning which is going pretty hard these days. Anyways, expect a detailed review here at some point about the guides that seem really well prepared and useful. I know it’s not the point, but A and E come together for me, actually… 🙂 Are you on Levo? Let’s connect there, I am easy to find, just type in my name in the search bar, top right corner. And if you’re not on…
united-nations: What are climate negotiations really like? How is the Paris conference different from Copenhagen and Kyoto? Janos Pasztor answered these and many other questions in his AMA from #COP21. Read the full recap:http://wp.me/p5Mdaw-3ln János Pásztor is the UN’s Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change. Make sure to check out the whole Q&A transcript, very informative!
Happy first Sunday of Advent! How can it be Advent already, when I feel like I have just returned from summer vacation, is beyond me. But it is. There is only one month left for our 2015 goals, and time to think about new ones for the new year! The year in world affairs is far from being over yet, though. One of the most important diplomatic events of 2015 kicks off tomorrow in Paris. UN member states will gather in Paris in the next two weeks for the UN conference on climate change. Long negotiations are to be expected,…
I hope everyone’s having a peaceful weekend wherever you may be. We have an incredibly depressing weather this weekend in Budapest, the kind that just makes you want to stay in bed and binge watch your favorite shows all day. Too bad I don’t have time for that… How are you all doing? And how about some Sunday reading now? The Constructive Ambiguity of the Security Council’s ISIS Resolution A closer look at the Security Council resolution legitimizing the use of force against ISIL. Can the UN Help Broker a Syria Ceasefire? Well, if anyone can, it is the UN….
