The articles, the opinions, the stories and the cartoons, Ovi magazine covers for Sunday 24th of October, 2021
U.N. Day: Strengthening and Reforming by Rene Wadlow
24 October is U.N. Day, marking the day when there were enough ratifications including those of the five permanent members of the proposed Security Council for the U.N. Charter to come into force. It is a day not only of celebration, but also a day for looking at how the U.N. system can be strengthened, and when necessary, reformed.
There have been a number of periods when proposals for new or different United Nations structures were proposed and discussed. The first was in the 1944-1945 period when the Charter was being drafted. Some who had lived through the decline and then death of the League of Nations wanted a stronger world institution, able to move more quickly and effectively in times of crisis or at the start of armed conflict.
In practice, the League of Nations was reincarnated in 1945 in the U.N. Charter but the names of some of the bodies were changed and new Specialized Agencies such as UNESCO were added. There was some dissatisfaction during the San Francisco negotiations, and an article was added indicating that 10 years after the coming into force of the Charter a proposal to hold a U.N. Charter Review Conference would be placed on the Agenda – thus for 1955.
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The Poets #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“I wait
At a coastal
Railway station,
And there’s a chill
In the wind
And I read the poetry
Of Dylan Thomas,
And Robert Frost,
And Seamus Heaney,
And I consider their words
And their rhythms,
And their humanity
And the journey
The poetry takes
Us on.”
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In the lasting pursuit of happiness #ShortStory #Fiction by Abigail George
“She has known pain all her life, has taken countless of chances on love, risked it all, put it all on the line for love. But if you have no knowledge of self, her mother said to her, how can you ever learn to love, fall in love with the man, acknowledge that he has too felt loneliness, and pain, suffering and hurting and wounding, for it is in the nature and the phenomenology of every man and every woman to feel loneliness, my girl, and pain, my daughter, and suffering and hurting and wounding directly or either indirectly, and you have to understand this, if I teach you, have taught you anything, and please, please listen carefully to an elderly woman.”
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Always something; the family edition 21#18 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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