by Saskia Rowley | Oct 19, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights
People have been silenced and made invisible for centuries. In Milan Kundera’s novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), the character Mirek observes, “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history....
by Terri Miller | Oct 5, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights
“Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation: A United Nations that Delivers for All.” This was the theme of the just-concluded 81st session of the UN General Assembly. In her address to world leaders during the UN high-level debate, Prime Minister of Barbados Mia...
by Terri Miller | Jun 15, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights
The FIFA World Cup has kicked off across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. This year’s tournament is the largest edition in history, with 48 teams, 104 matches, and billions of people watching. For over a month, people around the world will be glued to their...
by Saskia Rowley | Sep 8, 2025 | Comment, Communication Rights
Have you ever read through the agenda of a United Nations General Assembly? The 80th regular session of the General Assembly opens tomorrow, 9 September. Under the theme, “Better Together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights,” the provisional...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 25, 2025 | Comment, Communication Rights
Visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is harrowing. It records, in photos, artifacts, quotes, and stories, the days and months following the dropping of the first atomic bomb on 6 August 1945. Intellectually, we all know the death and destruction was horrific....
