With the need to increase legal protection for the increasing number of refugees in the world; it is useful to recall the first Nansen Passport created by Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930). The Leader of a Nordic-North Pole Exploration. Fridtjof Nansen was thought of
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Who will teach rhythm to the world laid low by machines and cannons,
Who will shout with joy to wake up the dead and the orphans at the dawn?
Say, who will give back the memory of life to the man with eviscerated hopes?…
We are the men of the dance, whose feet regain force by drumming on the hard earth.
Senghor “Prayer to the Masks”
Featured Image: Photo by Zen Chung on Pexels. There can be no peace in the world; so long as a large proportion of the population lack; the necessities of life and believe that a change of the politicl and economic system will make
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Featured Picture: Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash. Our earth is a small star in the great universe Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planetUnvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear,Undivided
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Featured Picture: JRamatsui, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2018) As Robert Vinson highlights “When Albert Luthuli; president of the African National Congress (ANC). South Africa’s leading anti apartheid organization; became the first African-born recipe ant
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Norman Cousins Picture: Apurva Madia, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. World Citizen Norman Cousins (24 June 1915-30 November 1990) was a pioneer of Track II diplomacy. Track I is official government to government diplomacy among instructed representative of the State.
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There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings: R ember your humanity, and forget the rest. – Russell-Einstein Manifesto, 1955
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Fotógrafo oficial del ejército británico, dominio público, a través de Wikimedia Commons. Tres días, 27-29 de abril de 2021, de conversaciones “informales” sobre el futuro de Chipre se llevaron a cabo en Ginebra bajo el liderazgo del Secretario General de la ONU,
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Photo by TheAndrasBarta in Pixabay By Rene Wadlow. As we reflect on current armed conflicts; on which the Association of World Citizens has proposed measures for conflict resolution: – Nagorno-Karabakh, Yemen, Syria, Ukraine-Donetsk-Lougansk- Russia – we ask ourselves if we are to be
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British Army official photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Three days, 27-29 April 2021, of “informal” talks on the future of Cyprus were held in Geneva under the leadership of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. There have been no formal negotiations on the
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