Non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) written just after the end of the destructive Second World War states that: “since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of
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Featured Image: Portrait of Herbert George Wells by George Charles Beresford. Black and white glossy print. 150 mm x 108 mm (1920). By George Charles Beresford, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. 2023 will see a year-long effort leading to 10 December 2023,
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Featured Image: Through the Russian Revolution. By Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons. Alexandre Marc ; (19 January 1904 – 22 February 2000) was born as Alexandre Markovitch Lipiansky in Odessa, Russia in 1904. He later simplified his name
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Featured Image: Big Ben, London, United Kingdom Photo by Adi Ulici on Unsplash. Henry Usborne (16 Jan. 1909 -16 March 1996).By Rene Wadlow. Henry Usborne was a British Member of Parliament (M.P.); elected in the Labour Party landslide in 1945. He was re-elected in 1950.
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Featured Image: Photo by Jeevan Katel on Unsplash. In the early hours of 19 December 2022, the delegates to the U. N. Convention on Biodiversity (COP 15) reached an agreement on a Biodiversity Framework after 12 days of intense negotiations. The theme
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Featured Image: Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash. The continuing armed conflict in Ukraine and the likelihood that the conflict will drag on through the winter, the 11th year of the armed conflict and repression in Syria, the renewal of
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Featured Image: Ebrahim Raisi By Nasim Online, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. On 24 November 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council held a Special Session on the human rights situation in Iran. A Special Session is the highest form
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Featured Image: Giuseppe Antonio Borgese. Public Domain. By https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Antonio_Borgese#/media/File:G._A._Borgese.jpg “The era of humanity has not begun, but the age of nations has ended. It ended in 1914 when the world wars began. Hence, earth and sky be Commonwealth to all, that Man
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Featured Image: Photo by Flow Clark, Unsplash. As if there were not already enough tensions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), there is a renewal of fighting since mid-October in the province of North Kivu, Goma being the central city. The current
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Featured Image: Photo by Nuno Alberto. Unsplash An empty white page held high has become the symbol of protest in the manifestations currently spreading to different parts of China. Just as the cry “Women-Life- Liberty “, women cutting their long hair in
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