Horst Max Cerni commented on "Insights from Ouside the Bubble #9: Imagine the Prize : Detlef Palm"
3 hours ago
Good observations. It would be good if you could get hired as a consultant to get things right.
Sree Gururaja commented on "We Have Only One World : Britain Has Talent / Ramesh Shrestha"
Jan 26, 2021
how uplifting and Ramesh, thanks for posting this beautifully rendered group song! the children were sincere and their message was clear! Now, the adults have to respond with action.
mopara2015@gmail.com commented on "Weekly Update - 17 to 24 January 2021"
Jan 25, 2021
Thanks for sharing and warm regards.
jjmohan@hotmail.com commented on "Weekly Update - 17 to 24 January 2021"
Jan 25, 2021
Thanks �� for another magnificent edition full of news, wonderful memories of Jim Grant and inspiration from Amanda Gorman. Jim Mohan
Sree Gururaja commented on "Our Photographer of the Week - Bruce Kennedy"
Jan 25, 2021
knowing where these pictures were taken would have helped the viewer as Bangladesh is a vast country.. it was nice to see a mini- reunion picture of XUNICEF friends! Sree
Ramesh Shrestha commented on "Our Photographer of the Week - Bruce Kennedy"
Jan 24, 2021
Thanks Bruce for posting these from Bangladesh. Very nice to see day to day lives of average people in South Asia, represented here by Bangladesh.
Detlef Palm commented on "Insights from Outside the Bubble#8: Greta's Network"
Jan 24, 2021
The Greta of 1992: Rick sent me this videoclip https://youtu.be/uZsDliXzyAY of Severn Suzuki, speaking at the UN Earth Summit 1992. She was 12 years old. If we had only listened.
Unknown commented on "UNICEF 75 - the Strategic Concept for the Year"
Jan 24, 2021
I think the Concept Paper is good and if properly knit together from child 'survival' to 'development' to 'rights' and onto the future could form a historical flow over the 75 years which would hold the reader's attention. As contributors will be presumably the very staff who gave the best years of their lives to UNICEF, I would caution against making it too much about UNICEF and not enough about children. I found it interesting some months ago when googling on the evolution of the idea or concept of "childhood" to discover that it is a relatively recent stand alone concept. In centuries long past the child was understood as an "incomplete adult". Then we had John Locke's 18th century view that at birth the mind is a 'tabula rasa' or blank slate. More recently in the last 50/60 years, spurned on by different writers/ studies, the nature/nurture balance has been part of the debate on what is a child/childhood. So my wish would be to see some thoughts on this 75th UNICEF birthday setting out how the concept of "childhood' itself has evolved over that period. Even more interesting would be some views as to whether the planet is moving to a common understanding of "childhood" (or whether that's even a desirable goal). Throughout the 75 years, was UNICEF challenged to embrace a range of slightly different understandings of the idea of "childhood" from Papua New Guinea to Sweden or China, and how did that effect its programmes, activities, and impact. I appreciate that this could constitute an entire oeuvre in it's own right, and of course that is not what I am proposing. I am suggesting that as the survival, development, rights components of the publications, articles for the 75th Anniversary are being written up that contributors be encouraged to intertwine where possible the work of UNICEF with the evolving idea of childhood during the decade or decades under discussion. Patrick Hennessy
V.Muthuswami commented on "Weekly Update - 17 to 24 January 2021"
Jan 24, 2021
Please note the correct link is as under: https://youtu.be/7O7j5VX0ncs
V.Muthuswami commented on "Democracy Report 2020 : V-Dem Institute / Janet Nelson"
Jan 24, 2021
https://youtu.be/7O7j5VX0ncs The above is I hope the correct video on Indian democratic diplomacy.
V.Muthuswami commented on "Weekly Update - 17 to 24 January 2021"
Jan 24, 2021
Here is what a democratic country with 1.4 billion mouths to feed can do for the rest of the world, because it believes that the whole world is one family: https://youtu.be/YOLKpPOabgQ
V.Muthuswami commented on "Weekly Update - 17 to 24 January 2021"
Jan 23, 2021
Is there any God ordained rule that democratic values follow what is prescribed and described by white western countries and their colored glass media? India is certainly not losing democracy. Don't go by what you see in some of the English media and Hindibelt publications. Come and visit non-Hindi states, where democracy is still vibrant and we will not bargain true democratic values for anything. Yes, our opposition parties are disorganized self seekers, and there may be no national level opposition in the foreseeable future. But some of our regional parties are quite strong, organised, purposeful, and will determine how the country has to be administered.
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