Tag: world affairs
whitehouse: Learn more about the historic deal we just reached to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
The UN Charter turns 70 today (June 26)! uniccanberrablog: Seventy years ago, San Francisco became the birthplace of global change when 50 nations came together in the Bay area to draft and sign the United Nations Charter, committing to work together to achieve global peace, prosperity and human rights. On Friday, 26 June 2015, the United Nations, the diplomatic community, the City of San Francisco, business leaders and more will observe the 70th anniversary of the UN at several events. #action2015 #UN70 Anniversary website: http://www.un.org/un70/en 2015 is also historic in that world leaders will chart the way forward to end…
Happy Sunday Everybody and Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers (especially on this side of the pond, where we celebrate Mother’s Day today)! I had a relatively busy week at work and an even busier, but different kind of busy long weekend. I hope all your weekends went great (/are going great if you’re still in the middle of it, yes hello there in the UK, I sort of envy you now)! There weren’t too many world affairs related posts this week to choose from, these are the ones I found interesting. The Jus ad Bellum and the Airstrikes in…
Happy Sunday! This was an eventful week world affairs-wise with a lot of great posts all around the blogosphere. These are just a few of them. Are Human Rights Hurting Migrants at Sea? This issue rapidly became ever urgent and pressing in the past few weeks, one that needs to be effectively dealt with in the European Union as a whole, but also on individual member state levels. The Economic Roots of Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa Another migration related issue from this week. Xenophobic violence sparks once again in one of the few economically stable African states. Yemen is…
Happy Sunday, everybody! Yesterday was the Day of Poetry in Hungary and on that occasion another one of my old posts went viral. It is the second time in a short period that this happens. Thank you to everybody for sharing and liking my posts! ❤ Hope you are having a beautiful Sunday and now ready to take a few minutes to read my favorite posts of the week. One Doctor’s Account of Yemen Under Siege Yemen quickly became a humanitarian disaster in just a few weeks time. This recount shows how serious the situation is. What Does the Word…
un-dpa: Dina Kawar, Permanent Representative of Jordan to the UN and President of the Security Council for April, briefs journalists. UN Photo/Mark Garten 2 April 2015 – The United Nations Security Council today unveiled its latest programme of work, featuring open debates on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, the role of youth in countering violent extremis, and sexual violence in conflicts. Read More
Welcome to the 100th Sunday Smack everybody!!! I can’t believe that I am doing this weekly round-up for 100 weeks (= almost two years!) already! The blog itself will turn 4 this summer too!! On this occasion besides thanking you all for reading and sticking with me all through these years I thought it would be best to share my thoughts about this blog with you all. Quite some time ago I decided to do this just to follow the topics I am most interested in. I sure want to continue doing it, and want to do it with more…
It’s been a long time since the last time when I could not manage to post anything between two Sunday Smacks, sorry about that. Amazingly enough, although I have even failed to mark yesterday’s International Mother Language Day, this post of mine from two years ago got very popular yesterday. Thanks to everybody for still keeping it in circulation! Now let’s see a couple of interesting posts from not so far back. The Budapest Memorandum and Beyond: Have the Western Parties Breached a Legal Obligation? The Ukrainian crisis looks even more troublesome when international treaty interpretation comes into play. The…
Happy New Year Everybody! Welcome to the first Sunday Smack of 2015, and the 90th altogether! There is a celebration due in ten weeks! 🙂 If I said last week was down time in blogosphere, this one was even “downer”. And I can’t say I am longing to go back to working weekdays either. I guess I’ll feel different about it once I’m back in the saddle already. I have some important career goals for 2015 too! I am thinking of ways to share them here with you all and create a career feature on this page. How would you…
Yes, you read it right. I did not make a mistake here, this is a roundup of roundups in the topic of world affairs. I picked my favorites, I hope you’ll enjoy! The stories of 2014 A great picture walk through the stories of 2014 by Reuters. 2014 in Photos Another picture roundup. This one’s from the United Nations’ official Flickr. 2014: A look back at some of the year’s major developments The UN News Centre also made this great roundup of major developments of 2014. 7 awful conflicts that were under-reported in 2014 I try to feature those stories…
