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The European Union picks up its (our) Nobel Peace Prize next week. 🙂 Great video by the European Council. 🙂 (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Do you volunteer? How often? Where? What do you do?

united-nations: Sunday is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. Today, 21 million women, men and children are trapped in slavery all over the world. Prominent artists, athletes and advocates have teamed up with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and its new campaign to End Slavery Now, and so can you.

thelovelymissd: Today is World AIDS Day. Get tested, get educated, get involved. http://www.worldaidsday.org/act-aware.php

First of all, instead of random book titles once in a while, I decided to do a monthly book recommendation post from now on. November was rather poor for me on that front, with only four full books finished, while I am also making progress with my first ever Spanish language book, and learning a lot. What I read in November included two classics, one Hungarian romance (sort of) and the long anticipated memoirs of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Many might find strange that I have never read Lolita and The Great Gatsby before, but in Hungary neither…

United Nations News Centre – At General Assembly, Ban and UN-Arab League envoy call for greater efforts to resolve crisis in Syria Announcing his plans to visit displaced Syrians in refugee camps in Turkey and Jordan, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged greater efforts to help bring an end to the conflict in the Middle Eastern country as well as greater support for the envoy tasked with that mission. “We can only succeed if all sides take the necessary steps, and if there are converging actions by the international community, in particular the Security Council,” Mr. Ban told an informal meeting of the General…

U.N. Twitter typo calls for ‘1-state’ solution

Here’s a list of all member states’ votes on the Palestine issue. Picture courtesy of the President of the General Assembly. 

Click the photo to learn more! Also today, the UN General Assembly votes on Palestine’s non-member state status! Interesting day ahead…