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I’ve been thinking about doing something like this for a long time and now I am happy to introduce the first in what I plan to be a series. Sunday Smacks are weekly round-ups of my favorite reads, most noteworthy happenings and everything I find worhty to mention here week by week. I haven’t used rss feeders before. I just decided recently to start using Google Reader to be able to catch up with all the blogs I was reading I was struggling to find the time to follow. But that was only days before Google Reader’s termination was announced (as timing…
newyorker: Today’s Daily Cartoon. For more cartoons, visit www.newyorker.com/cartoons
Serbia and Kosovo Reach Milestone Deal Serbia and Kosovo reached an agreement aimed at overcoming ethnic enmities, a milestone that could enhance stability and help clear the path for membership in the European Union.
united-nations: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon traveled by train to Washington, DC, on Thursday to take part in World Bank meetings on education, poverty reduction and more. Tune in on Friday between 11:00 a.m.-12:10 p.m. EDT (15:00-16:10 GMT) when he and World Bank President Jim Kim hold an interactive online conversation on ending poverty. Details: http://bit.ly/ittakes419 Photo: Ban Ki-moon is seen here with UN Peacekeeping chief Hervé Ladsous and Oscar Fernandez-Taranco from the UN’s Department of Political Affairs.
On April 11, the birthday of famous Hungarian poet, Attila József, Hungary is celebrating the Day of Poetry. Here, one of the greatest Attila József poems to mark the occasion. Scroll down for English, Spanish, French and Russian translations. József Attila: Tiszta szívvel (1925) Nincsen apám, se anyám,se istenem, se hazám,se bölcsőm, se szemfedőm,se csókom, se szeretőm. Harmadnapja nem eszek,se sokat, se keveset.Húsz esztendőm hatalom,húsz esztendőm eladom. Hogyha nem kell senkinek,hát az ördög veszi meg.Tiszta szívvel betörök,ha kell, embert is ölök. Elfognak és felkötnek,áldott földdel elfödneks halált hozó fű teremgyönyörűszép szívemen. __________________________________________________________ Attila József: With a pure heart Without father…
united-nations: Sunday is World Health Day. This year the World Health Organization (WHO) places the focus on the global problem of high blood pressure which affects more than one in three adults worldwide. High blood pressure, a largely hidden disease due to the lack of symptoms, is a major contributor to heart disease and stroke – which together make up the world’s number one cause of premature death and disability.
The Arms Trade Treaty’s doubters | Turtle Bay Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the National Rifle Association are grabbing all the headlines for opposing an Arms Trade Treaty that is designed to prohibit the delivery of weapons to countries accused of committing gross human rights violations or subject to an international arms embargo. But they are not the only ones with misgivings about a new global arms trade treaty. In all, 23 governments cast abstentions, a gesture designed to show discomfort, if not open hostility, to the new arms accord. It would have been 24, but Venezuela, which has not…
United Nations News Centre – UN General Assembly approves global arms trade treaty 2 April 2013 – The United Nations General Assembly has approved a global arms trade treaty that failed to achieve unanimous support last week but garnered the support of a majority of Member States when put to a vote today. The resolution containing the text of the treaty, which regulates the international trade in conventional arms, received 154 votes in favour. Three Member States – Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Iran and Syria – voted against the decision, while 23 countries abstained.
UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade un-library: Today, March 25, is the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the tragic transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest chapters in human history.
