by Daniel Clark | Dec 30, 2020
At 11.00AM of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of each year, a minute’s silence is observed in Australia and some other Commonwealth countries to commemorate the 1918 silence on the Western Front after more than four years of continuous warfare in World...
by Daniel Clark | Dec 29, 2020
The Graça Machel report drew global attention to the devastating impact of armed conflict on children and led to the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, its Optional Protocol and the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for...
by Daniel Clark | Dec 29, 2020
First observed in 2008, International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade remembers those who suffered and died through the transatlantic slave trade, the worst violation of human rights in history. For over 400 years, more...
by Daniel Clark | Dec 29, 2020
The red cross emblem was adopted 150 years ago by the Geneva Conventions to protect medical personnel assisting the wounded on the battlefield. Soon after, it was to identify the humanitarian services of Red Cross societies around the world. Today, it is one of the...