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 26 June: International Day Against Torture by Rene Wadlow
26 June 2020
Torture has a bad name among the police and security agencies of most countries. Thus torture is usually called by other names. Even violent husbands do not admit to torturing their wives. Thus, when NGO representatives started to raise the issue of tor (Add a comment) |  Reverse Logic: Trump Sanctions the International Criminal Court by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
26 June 2020
The decision by the Trump administration to sanction members of the International Criminal Court defies logic, in so far as there is any logic to sanctions. As a policy tool, such tools are supposedly designed to target specific members.... (Add a comment) |  International Day in Support of Victims of Torture by The Ovi Team
26 June 2020
June 26th is the international day in support of victims of torture. Torture seeks to annihilate the victim's personality and denies the inherent dignity of the human being. The United Nations has... (Add a comment) |  International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking by The Ovi Team
26 June 2020
The 26th of June International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking was established by the United Nations in 1987. In its 2006 edition, the UNODC launched an anti-drugs campaign... (Add a comment) |  Chaplin's, 'The Gold Rush' by The Ovi Team
26 June 2020
June 26th 1925; Charlie Chaplin's comedy, "The Gold Rush," premiered in Hollywood. A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters... (Add a comment) |  Francisco Pizarro assassinated by The Ovi Team
26 June 2020
June 26th 1541; Francisco Pizarro, the governor of Peru and conqueror of the Inca civilization, is assassinated in Lima by Spanish rivals. (Add a comment) |  Pearl Buck by The Ovi Team
26 June 2020
June 26th 1892; Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl Buck is born in West Virginia to parents on furlough from their missionary work in China. The family soon returned to China... (Add a comment) |  Obvious Maladies: Prepublication Reviews and Trump's Bolton Problem by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
25 June 2020
Again, they cheered, and again, the Schadenfreude chorus sounded off key. It was another atrocious week for US President Donald Trump, whose efforts to prevent the publication of his former national security adviser's memoir... (Add a comment) |  Eureka !!! by Leah Sellers
25 June 2020
Eureka !!!
Behold ! The energetic Explosiveness of a
Great Idea !
The Energetic Inspirational and Aspirational (Add a comment) |  ASEAN, C-19 and the Vietnam's Chairmanship by Ovi Magazine Guest
25 June 2020
COVID-19 (C-19) event is posing serious challenges for the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2020. But Vietnam, as current ASEAN chair, is trying to make the best of the situation and demonstrate leadership. (Add a comment) |  Walk & talk 2015 by Thanos Kalamidas
25 June 2020
Contemporary talk, walk and talk! (Add a comment) |  King of Pop dies at age 50 by The Ovi Team
25 June 2020
June 25; on this day in 2009, Michael Jackson, one of the most commercially successful entertainers in history, dies at the age of 50 at his home in Los Angeles, California, after suffering from cardiac arrest... (Add a comment) |  The Korean War by The Ovi Team
25 June 2020
June 25th 1950. Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War. The United States, acting under the auspices of the United Nations, quickly sprang... (Add a comment) |  Norman Cousins: A Pioneer of Track II Diplomacy by Rene Wadlow
24 June 2020
World Citizen Norman Cousins (24 June 1915-30 November 1990) was a pioneer of Track II diplomacy. Track I is official government to government diplomacy among instructed representative of the State. Track II is a non-official effort... (Add a comment) | | newer 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 older |
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