The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday August 19th, 2023
World Humanitarian Day: A Need for Common Actions by Rene Wadlow
The United Nations General Assembly has designated 19 August as “World Humanitarian Day” to pay tribute to aid workers in humanitarian service in difficult and often dangerous conditions. 19 August was designated in memory of the 19 August 2003 bombing of the UN office building in Baghdad, Iraq in which Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and at the time Special Representative of the UN Secretary General was killed along with 21 UN staff members. Over 200 UN employees were injured. The exact circumstances of the attack are not known, and why USA and UN security around the building was not tighter is still not clear. A truck with explosives was able to dive next to the building and then blew itself up.
Sergio de Mellow had spent his UN career in humanitarian efforts, often with the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees and at other times as Special Representative of the UN Secretary General. As an NGO representative to the UN in Geneva and active on human rights issues, I knew him during his short 2002-2003 tenure as High Commissioner for Human Rights. Many of us had high hopes that his dynamism, relative youth (he was 54) and wide experience in conflict resolution efforts would provide new possibilities for human rights efforts. His death along with the death of others who had been Geneva-based was a stark reminder of the risks that exist for all engaged in humanitarian and conflict resolution work.
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The Green Fairy #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“In a dark inner-city Sydney cafe,
We sat in a corner in a warm
Infusing atmosphere with
A candle on our table,
And the aroma of incense
Wafted through the air
Mingling with muffled jazz,
And we drank more absinthe,
And I gently kissed your red lips,
And the Green Fairy loosened
Our souls and we were gliding
Through the silence of the night.”
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A fistful of cactus #061 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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