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A short while ago we celebrated Allegra’s 1st birthday by re-visiting the ‘TOP 10’ posts of our first year. After this we have continued…
Read MoreA short while ago we celebrated Allegra’s 1st birthday by re-visiting the ‘TOP 10’ posts of our first year. After this we have continued…
Read MoreEarlier this week, Allegra published a critique of Elizabeth Povinelli’s keynote at the EASA 2014 in Tallinn written by Sylvain Piron. It did not…
Read MoreAs global news feeds are increasingly dominated by gruesome imagery of Gaza bombings and more recently, ISIS violence in Iraq, it seems difficult to grasp…
Read MoreAfter three flights, fifteen hours of travelling, ample soggy sandwiches and three not-too-terrible movies, I finally arrive at the Chicago O’Hara Airport. Some minor arm…
Read MoreLights, Camera, Action. The climax approaches as the score count continues in one of the biggest – and certainly the strangest – annual European…
Read MoreA month and some ago I shared thoughts on the ‘Global Happiness Inc’ formed around the #HAPPY videos created for the tune by Will…
Read MoreIt is the last day of the UN Human Rights Committee’s session and I should be frantically making last-minute notes, to be tying up…
Read MoreDuring treaty body sessions at the Palais Wilson one of the undoubted ‘hotspots’ for action is the cafeteria located on the first floor opposite…
Read MoreThis is a phenomenally impersonal and detached forum for addressing what really are issues of life and death for millions of people…. The meeting…
Read MoreIn UN treaty body proceedings members of the bodies regularly mention – after they are done with elaborate rounds of welcomes, thank yous and…
Read MoreThis is finally it! I unlock my bike, hop on and start making my way down the hill in the direction of the lake….
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