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Hello everybody, happy Sunday! I didn’t quite finish this post for the weekend, but then I wanted to post it, because the articles I collected throughout the week are exceptionally good! I hope you’ll enjoy them too… Cautionary tales for the Mueller Probe from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia That’s an unlikely comparison, I mean it would have never occurred to me to think about these two cases in parallel, but if you consider the reasoning, it makes a lot of sense. Here’s Why the Security Council Should Not Refer Burmese Authorities to the International Criminal Court …
Happy Sunday, everyone! It’s been a while. A long while. Being away from this platform had nothing to do with my professional life, as I am still very much interested in world affairs, I am still reading a lot on the topic, and I really do want to blog about it again. This week’s collection is some kind of a test as I am planning to bring this blog back to life. Today’s weather in Hungary brought a strong autumn-y feeling, and fall is a good (well, as good as ever) occasion to start new things, so I will try…
united-nations: Wednesday is the Nelson Mandela International Day! 100 years after his birth, Nelson Mandela’s call to “ensure that democracy, peace and prosperity prevail everywhere” continues to inspire the world. Find out how you can take action and inspire change: un.org/en/events/mandeladay/take_action 📷: UN Photo / Pernaca Sudhakaran, John Isaac, Eskinder DebebeNMF Photo / Matthew Willman
Recently I went on a trip to Prague, which was supposed to be a spring getaway for a long weekend, but turned out to be a winter one with lots of snow and cold. We’ve spent as much time outside walking around this beautiful city as we could, but the cold forced us to seek for some indoors activities as well. One of these were visiting the Museum of Communism. Having grown up in Hungary I do have quite a vision of communism in Eastern Europe, so I didn’t really expect any great surprises there. The exhibition starts with the…
usatoday: The most and least happy countries in the world may surprise you. Most of the least happy countries are in Africa, and the majority of the most happy countries on the planet have cold climates. And with that, happy International Day of Happiness!
united-nations: The time is now! On Thursday’s International Women’s Day and every day, speak up and take action for gender equality. Get inspired by women’s activism from generations past and present unwo.men/FkBM30iEMRB
united-nations: Dr. Martin Luther King was a visionary civil rights leader and recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. In this photo from 1964, Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, are greeted by Ralph J. Bunche, United Nations Under-Secretary for Special Political Affairs (and himself a Nobel Peace Prize winner), at UN Headquarters in New York. Dr. King’s legacy continues in many ways, including in the Sustainable Development Goals, where reduced inequalities and peace and justice are key to our vision for a better world. All of us can stand up against racial prejudice and intolerant attitudes. Be…
Happy Sunday! The New Year started with this great initiative and I was so glad to see most of the “celebrities” I am following standing behind this cause. There is a reason why I love all these people, I thought. Also, it is Golden Globes Sunday, and I can’t wait to see them all wearing black tonight. Award season is one of the very few perks of these gloomy, grey after-holidays times, and I am excited for many of my favorites. To only name my biggest favorite, good luck to Mariah Carey and Marc Shaiman tonight! I hope you all had…
I wrote earlier that I didn’t really feel like doing a review of last year, since there are not many things to look back at. 2017 was decidedly not my year. Looking back what I feel is as if I have completely skipped the whole year. All I can think about is work, I even had 10+ paid leave days remaining (i.e. going to waste), because there was always some reason not to take a day off. Of course I have all the intention now to change things, so that I would have a bunch of great stuff to look…
Happy New Year’s Eve, everybody! This is the yearly round-up edition of Sunday Smack, with a couple of reviews of the year. I was also thinking aobut doing a more personal round-up as I did last year, but looking back this year doesn’t give me much pleasure, so I am still not sure if it is going to happen. Anyway, here’s a bit of reading before the party gets going. Key events around the world in 2017 The title says it all, some of the news stories that shaped our passing year. Ten World Figures Who Died in 2017 I…
