Saturday, 20 December 2025

On The Rule Of the Road - A. G. Gardiner

 


Alfred George Gardiner (1865-1946) was an English Journalist, editor and author.  His essays were written in the name of 'Alpha of the Plough' in the London evening newspaper, the Star.  He is famous for his essays that are organized logically and coherently with appropriate transitions and examples.  His 'On the Rule of the Road' is taken from his compilation titled 'Leaves in the wind'.  This essay deals with the manners of the people on the road and how important it is to obey traffic rules.  Though it deals with the traffic laws that ensure safety and prevent accident, it also makes the reader think about liberty and responsibility of all in a society and also about the limits of freedom.

Monday, 15 December 2025

Integrating Human Rights, Leave no one Behind and Gender Equality into UN Cooperation Frameworks - United Nations Sustainable Development Group

 


The United Nations is an international Organization founded in 1945 with 51 nations and now has 193 member states.  Poverty eradication, promoting gender equality and human rights, protecting the planet and ensuring peace and prosperity to all people are its objectives.  To promote and protect human rights, it has, the human rights based approach (HRBA) in its programs.  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document of the UN.  Moreover, to end gender discrimination and to protect women's rights the UN adopted 'The convention on the Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (CEDAW) in 1979. Then, in 2015 the UN adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) along with 169 targets for its mission 2030.  Actually it is a universal call to end poverty, protect the planet and to establish peace and prosperity to all.