Students in Cape Town, UN Women, International Women’s Day, March 8, 2019
Today is International Women’s Day.
As we’ve… Continue reading
Message of the Day: Human Rights, Econmic Opportunity, Hunger, Disease, War, Population, Environment, Personal Growth
Students in Cape Town, UN Women, International Women’s Day, March 8, 2019
Today is International Women’s Day.
As we’ve… Continue reading
“This Is Where a Nuclear Exchange Is Most Likely. (It’s Not North Korea.)”, The New York Times
By The Editorial Board, March 7, 2019
The current focus on North Korea’s growing arsenal obscures the fact that the… Continue reading
“High Commissioner Bachelet calls on States to take strong action against inequalities”, United Nations Human Rights Council
News Release, Geneva, 6 March 2019
Bachelet highlights major human rights situations around the world in address to the… Continue reading
“A Little More Than Religion”, Dublin Review of Books
Mary Jones, 1/3/2019
The Good Friday Agreement, by Siobhán Fenton, Biteback Publishing, 320 pp, £12.99, ISBN: 978-1785903731
The author… Continue reading
“Daring To Ride A Bike And 5 Other Ways Women Are Changing The World”, NPR
Malaka Gharib, March 7, 2019
A bicycle is a great way to get around. In Pakistan, it’s also a symbol… Continue reading
“As the ‘caliphate crumbles,’ the Islamic State is seeding a new insurgency”, The Washington Post
By Louisa Loveluck, March 7, 2019
DEIR AL-ZOUR, Syria — The road to the final scrap of the… Continue reading
“‘Baldwin the symbol of black transgression and global black anger is simply peerless’—Bongani Madondo on If Beale Street Could Talk, the book and Oscar-winning film”, The Johannesburg Review of Books
Bongani Madondo, March 4, 2019
James Baldwin’s novel of half a century ago, If Beale Street Could Talk, now reissued… Continue reading
“Senator Martha McSally’s Revelation of Assault May Reopen Debate”, The New York Times
By Jennifer Steinhauer and Richard A. Oppel Jr., 7 March 2019
WASHINGTON — A Republican senator’s revelation of her… Continue reading
“French cardinal convicted over sex abuse cover-up”, Agence France-Presse
Paris, 7 Mar 2019
The archbishop of Lyon Thursday announced he was resigning just hours after being handed a six-month… Continue reading