“A diminishing public space for freedom of expression and association” is trend and of concern according to UN human rights office Spokesperson Rupert Colville (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The following Statement was issued:…
Armistice Day I dribble along a single drop of perspiration rolling down hard, stony, curves dipping into slight niches of circumstance detouring momentarily to hide in the quiet of a crevice and then out again to wet, lick, glide, smear with tears…
“Yesterday the UN mission in South Sudan confirmed that the Sudan Armed Forces dropped at least two bombs near the Yida refugee camp,” Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, told the Security Council (November 11, 20…
It is only small amounts but the source and cause is still a mystery, which may be even more troubling. The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a statement saying it had received information from the Czech Republic’s State Offic…
A very talented filmmaker Dominique Palombo whose work we admire greatly has a few of his videos featured in the Cinedans Dance on Screen Festival being held in Amsterdam from December 1 - 4. http://cinedans.nl/home 'Move' a personal favorite, sh…
---“ Pawn shop should not come to symbolize the future of military service on behalf of country and fellow citizen.”--- Today is Veteran’s Day in US and Remembrance Day in many other parts of globe (marking end of WW I), but are we truly rememb…
UN and “One Day on Earth” project partner to film human activities across the world to be edited into a video narrative highlighting issues of global concern including poverty, gender equality, the environment, human rights and governance. UNDP (…
Growing by more than 60% from 2000-2008 it is globe's fastest growing source of animal protein . (Aquaculture is cultivating fresh water and saltwater fish under controlled conditions as opposed to catching fish in the wild). Between 2000-2008, it gr…
G-20 summit named 11 countries as tax havens: Antigua, Barbados, Botswana, Brunei, Panama, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, which holds the presidency of the G20, s…
After Washington cut funding in retaliation to admission of Palestine as UNESCO member state, Director-General Irina Bokova and UNSG Ban Ki-moon expressed concern for the projected shortfall as well as dismay. Ms Bokova has now indicated that the ag…
