Our volunteer editor, Doreen Lobo, shares her very personal trials and tribulations after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. We are all breathing better now that the prognostics are positive .
Columnists
Columnists
Ramesh Shrestra expounds on Newton's Law of Gravity and its relations with social values in our modern world .""What goes up must come down", is the adage, but read how he relates this to the current situation.
Ken Gibbs describes one of his numerous real life experiences, this time during a stay in Turkmenistan. His wry humour is what makes the article so special.
Thomas Ekvall, we are pleased to note, is becoming one of our more regular contributors. Here he continues on his favourite subject about development aid to Africa and asks the question whether direct cash assistance to poor communities would have been more beneficial than the billions spent by international bodies.
XUNICEF Reunion:
Update # 13 brings us additional news about events in the Zimbabwe 2026 Reunion. One of our editors has also offered a reward for the first retiree to participate in one of the activities during the reunion.
UN Matters
UN Matters
Sharif Alam & Anis Salem provide information about the "official" campaign for the election of the next SG.
Yemen: United Nations staff who had been held by the Houti authorities were judged and sentenced to death. A very disquieting development which we are closely following.
Tom McDermott has details on the end of COP30 held in Belem, Brazil, and the mitigated outcomes regarding fossil fuels.
Kul Gautam comments on the GA resolution against Torture and how only three countries (US, Israel and Argentina) voted nay.
Child specific articles
Yemen: United Nations staff who had been held by the Houti authorities were judged and sentenced to death. A very disquieting development which we are closely following.
Tom McDermott has details on the end of COP30 held in Belem, Brazil, and the mitigated outcomes regarding fossil fuels.
Kul Gautam comments on the GA resolution against Torture and how only three countries (US, Israel and Argentina) voted nay.
Child specific articles
Tom McDermott shares findings from the just published "State of Australia's Children". He also points us to an article on the situation of Unaccompanied Children and the adverse effects of this on the children.
Sudan
Sudan
Our former Executive Director, Tony Lake, makes another strong Appeal for the Sudan and describes the terrible situation that the civil war has created for children and women in particular. We encourage all our readers who can support to do so.
We also have another article in which the military ruler of the Sudan rejects the US peace plan which only exemplifies the difficulty in agreeing to stop the fighting.
Gaza
Gaza
From the New York Times another US plan to provide housing for Palestinians in Gaza which many are critical of.
Health-related articles
Health-related articles
John Gilmartin describes current US demographics which show that deaths are more than births and some of the reasons for this trend. He also shares news about how the detection of lung cancer at an early stage would considerably reduce incidence of this most fatal disease.
Tom McDermott shares three articles related to a) America's Children Unwell; is this related to schools? b) How GAVI and UNICEF have negotiated a major malaria vaccine price cut that will enable an important increase in vaccinations; c) a Lancet review about how ultra processed foods are adversely affecting the population.
Kul Gautam shares another Lancet article on the new US Health strategy and what are its main features.
If you were wondering where is ESWATINI we have an article on how this former Swaziland has become the first African country to provide a double vaccine of HIV.
Other Societal Issues
Tom McDermott shares three articles related to a) America's Children Unwell; is this related to schools? b) How GAVI and UNICEF have negotiated a major malaria vaccine price cut that will enable an important increase in vaccinations; c) a Lancet review about how ultra processed foods are adversely affecting the population.
Kul Gautam shares another Lancet article on the new US Health strategy and what are its main features.
If you were wondering where is ESWATINI we have an article on how this former Swaziland has become the first African country to provide a double vaccine of HIV.
Other Societal Issues
Niloufar Pourzand and others are concerned that Canada's new foreign policy moves away from feminist priorities.
Africa and the Solar Power revolution is an interesting take on how the continent is progressing in this important field.
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