The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday August 16th, 2022
Stewards of this world and its precious life by Rene Wadlow
In October 2008, the then President of the United Nations General Assembly Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann urged “Let us become stewards of the world and its precious life. The United Nations is an ongoing experiment in partnership. Let’s inspire these partnerships with solidarity and compassion. The trigger for this solidarity does not lie with world leaders. Nor government bureaucracies. Nor the corporations. It comes from people, from civil society, from ordinary citizens doing extraordinary things.”
This call for the development of political will for cooperation and solidarity remains valid today. The question we must ask ourselves is why has there been so little progress toward compassion as a motive for action. The United Nations has the structures for mediation, good offices, arbitration, and judicial settlement of disputes. Thus an important question is why States so seldom resort to these dispute settlement mechanisms. There is a crucial role that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can play. Although the term “world public opinion” has been overused, there is a certain reality to the term. NGOs can provide some pressure to resolve international conflicts peacefully.
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Birth Of The World #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“I witness
The birth of
World every morning
At sunrise swimming
In the ocean with
The foaming waves
Crashing on the beach
Under a glowing sky
Ablaze with warm colours”
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A fistful of cactus #033 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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