Tag: UN
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 Sunday! Wow, what an eventful week! I couldn’t agree more with the Monday cover of La Razón, thank you France for voting inclusion and democratic values! Vive la France! The most turmoil of course was in US politics this week, as is kind of usual these days. It’s also kind of usual for me to refer you to late show clips, because these guys are doing their jobs amazingly no matter how hard it is these days (*coughs* #fakenews). Nothing proves it better than the fact that they actually irritate the president. On a lighter note, U2′s #U2TheJoshuaTree2017 Tour…
Happy Sunday, Everybody! Since these stories I collect here are mostly about difficulties and hardships, I decided to try to lead with three things I liked over the week. First on my favorite things of this week list is learning the method of right brain drawing. That was mostly last week, but we finished off on Monday. Ever since then I am trying to experiment with right brain writing and right brain learning, you may read about these later. Another favorite moment of this week was Jimmy Kimmel’s heartfelt monologue about his son’s condition, and of course the positive ending…
Happy long weekend to everybody who have May 1 as Labour Day off, and happy regular weekend to everyone else! I am spending all three days of this weekend activating my right brain. Follow my Instagram for more on this! Meanwhile, things got wild in world affairs this week, so let’s read about it! (The photo is of course from the UN Security Council’s White House lunch with the President, courtesy of Getty Images.) The United States and China Just Presented Two Very Different Plans With the Same Goal: Getting rid of North Korea’s Nukes. Which Will Work? The hot…
united-nations: Climate action is unstoppable and will benefit ALL of us. On Saturday’s International Mother Earth Day, see how the United Nations is tackling climate change – and what you can do help: http://j.mp/23TJ0LH
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…
united-nations: It’s been 3 years since the world was shocked by what happened to the Chibok girls. It provoked global outrage at Boko Haram’s practice of abducting children. The reality is that thousands of boys and girls have been abducted in the crisis in the Lake Chad basin. They’ve been subjected to violence and loss that no child should ever know. – There is a 300% increase in suicide attacks using children in NE Nigeria compared to this time last year.– Girls who’ve been abducted by Boko Haram have endured unimaginable sexual violence.– Boko Haram have used 117 children in…
Happy Sunday! Destpite the very eventful week in world affairs, I would start again with something I (and many others) believe is an international issue, being an attack against democracy. You might have heard the law undercutting Central European University in Hungary has been adopted in spite of wide international protests. The protests continue, now the aim is to get President Áder not to sign the legislation. You can sign the petition clicking here. I am not sure whether any of this helps, but please do sign if you haven’t already and share with others! Now, let’s get to all…
united-nations: Friday is the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, marking 23 years since the start date of the genocide in which more than 800,000 people were systematically murdered over a period of just 100 days. The vast majority of victims were Tutsi, but moderate Hutu, Twa and others were also targeted. Hear from survivors and find out about efforts to raise awareness and prevent genocide here: http://j.mp/IRUtQ8 And most important of all: let’s not let Rwanda happen again!
Happy April, Everybody! There is wonderful spring weather in Hungary these days, I hope you are also somewhere enjoying spring. There was also wonderful spring weather in London during the short time I have spent there this week, the highlight of which I already shared in a previous post. It was my first time there since the Brexit referendum (las time I visited just a week before that), so I was curious whether anything has changed. I have to say I haven’t noticed anything. The media of course was full of Brexit reports on March 29, but other than that,…
