Tag: human rights
united-nations: Culture, tradition and religion can never justify the denial of human rights. Today is the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Check out United Nations Free & Equal’s new Culture of Love campaign: http://bit.ly/2qrHgOz
Happy Easter, Everybody! I hope you are having a peaceful and relaxing holiday weekend, whether you celebrate Easter or not. As you might have heard, President János Áder signed the legislation making Central European University’s operations in Hungary impossible into law this week. Demonstrations in Hungary keep going on, now the aim is to get MPs to refer the law to revision to the Constitutional Court (and the whole regime to leave, while we’re at it). The demonstrators are mostly university students, protesting peacefully against this irrational, outrageous and outright stupid act of the government. Meanwhile, on Easter Monday, there will…
Happy Sunday, Everybody! I am well into the process of rescheduling my life to fit in everything I already wanted to and also some more weeks of intense studies. I will be honest, it is not going very well… In spite of all that, I have some pretty exciting things coming up in the next few weeks. But first, I will leave for a short holiday next week. There weren’t too much interesting topics covered this week, there are some weeks like that, but I tried hard to pick something for you. 6 million people are at risk of starving…
I know I am a little late with this, I haven’t really had the time in the past weeks since the report came out, yet I really wanted to reflect on it. Amnesty International’s Report on the State of the World’s Human Rights provides a very detailed account on human rights in the examined 159 countries of the world. The overall conclusion is that 2016 saw a huge decline in human rights. This is true for armed conflicts all over the world, for the treatment of refugees fleeing said armed conflicts, but also true for the spreading of dangerous ideologies,…
united-nations: Stand up for someone’s rights today! Today is Human Rights Day. Choose from one of these five ideas and Stand up Today: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/HRDay2016/Pages/StandUp4HumanRightsTakeAction.aspx Read about the International Day of Human Rights here.
Happy Sunday, everybody! I really can’t believe it is almost December already, and it’s less than four weeks to go until Christmas. Another year has gone by so quickly. Due to Thanksgiving, we weren’t overwhelmed with earthshaking news this week, except for the death of a certain dictator, perhaps. Meanwhile I suffered a moderate cold and a major exhaustion this week, so after finishing off a project on Wednesday, I took two days off to do nothing, but things I enjoy (which more or less I did). For one thing, I am done watching ¾ of the Gilmore Girls revival,…
Happy Sunday! I hope you all had a great week trying to figure out your stance on all issues affecting your lives these days. I was determined not to post about the President-Elect anymore until some new story comes up, but I didn’t have much choice, most of the blogs I follow were full of predictions (but mostly yet unanswered questions) of what’s to come in world affairs. On a more delightful note, it is Gilmore Girls week! Which coincides with Thanksgiving weekend in the US, and Black Friday all over the world. So I hope you’ll have a happy…
Happy Sunday and happy Halloween, everybody! We are having a long weekend in Hungary, unfortunately filled with work for me. I can’t believe how quickly we are approaching the end of 2016. There are a lot of exciting things this coming November holds for us though, like the Marrakesh Climate Change Conference (to be preceded by the entry into force of the Paris Agreement), an historic presidential election in the US, the return of Gilmore Girls on Netflix, to list just a few. Here’s your reading for today. This will not be the end of “The Jungle” One of the…
Happy Sunday Everybody! I hope you are all savouring your last weeks of summer this time around (unless you live somewhere where it is summer all year round in which case I envy you, or somewhere where it is not summer these months in which case let me know when it is summer already, then I want to go there). This week it was really down-season around the office for me, but at least coming back from vacation did not hurt that much. August 20 is also a National Day in Hungary, so when I am writing this (scheduled post…
Happy Sunday! Can you believe it is almost August already? Only 1/3 of this summer remains, make sure to cherish the good times, that’s what I am going to do starting next weekend! Only one workweek to go… Also, do you know how it is, when a certain thing is going on in your life, and suddenly you find tons of articles in that topic without even looking? Like it’s not even you who finds them, but the other way around. Well, that is sort of what’s happening to me lately, follow me on Twitter, where I usually share my…
