This past Monday, on the eve of high-level meetings in the United Nations’ general assembly, there was another important meeting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended together with a selection of female world leaders. It was designed to highlight the importance of women’s participation in public life. Read the rest of this entry »

Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, things have and are changing rapidly and in ways that could not have been expected not so long ago. So, it is not totally unexpected that after many decades of talks and broken treaties, the Palestinians finally have decided their time had come. Read the rest of this entry »

As we already reported on May 26 and on June 15, the Palestinians were planning to seek full recognition of statehood from the United Nations something both the US and Israel were against. Read the rest of this entry »

It is rather curious to see how some countries attract the attention of the world, sometimes in a positive way, some times in a negative way. One could say that what happens in them, specially what happens to the lives of the civilians in those countries is left to the whim of a few powerful nations which can decide to help or not in case of revolts that many times become horrific. Such is the case of two African nations: Libya and Côte d’Ivoire. Read the rest of this entry »

From Katmandu to Kosovo the world marks today the International Day of the Disappeared, most of them the unsung victims of wars and forced victims of dictatorships regimes and conflicts. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday the UN general assembly, for the 18th consecutive year, passed a non-binding resolution -with 187 votes in favor, three against and two abstentions- condemning the US economic embargo against Cuba. Only Israel and the Pacific Island of Palau sided with the US. Read the rest of this entry »

Which date more appropriate to remember the agonizing problem of world hunger than today, October 16, on the occasion of World Food Day? It is imperative that we are all aware of the 1 billion people worldwide that are hungry, it is imperative that we know that every six seconds a child dies of malnutrition. Read the rest of this entry »