Crumbs of human rights

The question comes: why people keep talking so much about the United Nations today? Because we are celebrating our largest international organisation twofold. First, today is the United Nations Day . This date marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. As the UN itself, this day aims to remind and encourage “governments and individuals to work in common cause for the common good”. The second link to the UN stresses its work in the field of development. The UN General Assembly instituted the so-called ‘ World Development Information Day ’ in 1972 with the object of raising awareness of world public opinion to development problems and the necessity of strengthening international co-operation to solve them.   Tackling development problems to reach development goals: you presumably have heard about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). We are talking about eight international development goals set in 2000 to be achieved by 2015. Let’s menti...

Esquipulas back then :  It was  25 years  ago on August 7th when the presidents of Central America got together to sign the "Procedimiento para establecer la paz firme y duradera en Centroamérica", better known as Acuerdo Esquipulas II (Esquipulas II Agreement), in Guatemala.  The five Central American presidents to sign the agreement on that day were: Oscar Arias of  Costa Rica ; Vinicio Cerezo, Guatemala; Daniel ortega, Nicaragua; Napoleón Duarte, El Salvador and José Azcona, Honduras (the latter two now deceased). The agreement laid the  foundation for  the end of the fighting in Central America, which was compounded by he ideological and military interference of the Soviet Union and the United States, competing superpowers in the context of  the Cold War .  Oscar Arias received the Nobel Peace Prize (1987) for his role in getting the agreement signed and bringing peace to the  region . With the so-called Esquipul...

The Bam Citadel with a history  dating back around 2,000 years ago, to the  Parthian Empire. (Source: www.irantravelingcenter.com)