On 23 October 2019, 39 people( 8 women and 31 men); were found dead in a refrigerated trailer truck; coming from Belgium in the last leg of its journey. The truck was at a parking lot in Essex, near London, England. The identity of
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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 them available. World peace must be based
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Laurens van der Post (1906-1996) was a Citizen of the World in Spirit but also an Afrikaner; aSouth African writer but who wrote in English. Deeply influenced by his friendship; with the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung; Van der Post could also
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In early April 1976; during the Qingming festival when the Chinese traditionally mourn their dead and sweep their graves; millions of people went to Tiananmen Square to pay tribute to Zhou Enlai as a symbol of reason and rectitude after the chaos
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“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was an African-American poet; through Negro was the term at the time; and many of Hughes’ poems have Negro in the title
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There is a sense of great opportunity and hope that a new world can be built in which social and economic progress; environmental protection and better standards of living can be realized through global solidarity and cooperation. Nowhere can these goals be
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27 Sep 2019 – The international relations specialist Stanley Hoffmann once quipped “Goals are easy to describe. What matters more is a strategy for reaching them.” The United Nations through its annual debates in the General Assembly; its special world conferences such as
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