It is the working man who is the happy man. (Benjamin Franklin)
I grew up on a street with a strange, archaic name: it seemed to indicate a profession, or a job at the feudal court. I imagined this man as wearing many layers of sumptuous clothes and carrying lots of keys.
I asked a teacher, but he was not sure of the exact role, no more precise than referring to a position at court, held by a minor aristocrat, sometime before the 18th century.
(Washington, DC) – United States border agents routinely hold families, including infants, in freezing cells when it takes them into custody at or near the border, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on 28 February 2018.
Footage of women and children in immigration holding cells in Douglas, Arizona, September 2015, made public in 2016 after a group of migrants challenged detention conditions in the cells. US Customs and Border Protection via American Immigration Council | Source: Human Rights Watch.
Iran is implementing a series of commitments under the nuclear agreement reached with key countries in 2015, the head of the United Nations nuclear energy agency 5 March 2018 said.
Dean Calma/IAEA | Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), briefs members of the media in Vienna.
“As of today, I can state that Iran is implementing its nuclear-related commitments,” he said in his introductory statement to the Board of Governors, one of the two policy-making bodies of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Increased hunger and food insecurity, fuelled by conflict and climatic challenges, continues to inflict suffering on populations in different parts of the world, forcing them to remain dependent on humanitarian assistance, a new United Nations report has warned.
FAO/Hkun Lat | A girl runs through deserted farmland in Mynmar’s Sagaing region where floods buried valuable fertile soil under several feet of mud which later dried hard and cracked, making land preparations very difficult and expensive.
Children in crisis situations face a raft of challenges – from family separation and forced recruitment to sexual exploitation and abject poverty – the deputy United Nations human rights chief on 5 March 2018 said, urging immediate action to protect children from the consequences of “all too adult failings.”
UNICEF/Vishwanathan | Villagers watch folk artists perform a street play on the issue of child marriage and the evils of it, at the village square, in Jamua block of the Giridih district of Jharkhand state, India.
The imbalance between spending on conflict, and spending on peace, must be tackled head-on, Secretary-General António Guterres on 5 March 2018 said, urging the United Nations to rally all international actors “for our efforts across the peace continuum – from prevention, conflict resolution and peacekeeping to peacebuilding and sustainable long-term development.”
MINUSCA | Under the watchful eyes of the UN peacekeeping mission known as MINUSCA, voting takes place in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, on a constitutional referendum meant to help stabilize the country.
