Showing posts with label rebuilding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rebuilding. Show all posts
Saturday, October 24, 2026

“Hungry men are desperate men, especially when their children also are hungry.” ... Prelude to the UN: As the Second World War raged, a remarkable international effort was already taking shape to help rebuild a shattered world. Founded in November 1943, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) began its work before the United Nations itself had been constituted. Faced with hunger, disease, mass displacement and devastation, it helped deliver the essentials of survival and offered hope to millions struggling to rebuild their lives. Beyond emergency relief, UNRRA became a pioneering experiment in international cooperation. UN Video highlights UNRRA’s extraordinary mission through archival footage and personal testimony. Watch Before the UN: The Forgotten Story of UNRRA:

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  Director-General Herbert Lehman of UNRRA said, “Hungry men are desperate men, especially when their children also are hungry.”   UNRRA was...
Friday, August 7, 2026

On the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima: "Let's move closer ro a world where the tragedy of Hiroshima is never repeated" Antonio Guterres

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On the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima,   @antonioguterres    has honoured the memories of those who lost their lives an...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

AFTER SAVAGERY: "The West’s moral exceptionalism has expired. What’s left is the hard work of rebuilding universality from the camp outward, universality as solidarity, not domination. Palestine is not a cause on your list; it is a lens. Through it, everything sharpens: climate justice, policing, borders, surveillance, labour. The same empire, the same alibi. Choose your side."

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"... He is not trying to make “both sides” feel seen; he is trying to make the dead visible and the living responsible.  The book wil...