Poetry gives us hope to scale and climb 'cloudy summits of our time' – UN cultural agency
Mar 22, 2017, at 05:14 am
New York, Mar 21 (Just Earth News): Poetry gives us hope, the United Nations cultural agency on Tuesday said, lauding verse's ability to shake us from everyday life and remind us of the surrounding beauty and the resilience of the shared human spirit.
‘Nothing is more powerful than the human spirit,’ Ban tells memorial honouring fallen UN staff
Oct 27, 2016, at 01:40 pm
New York, Oct 27 (Just Earth News): Joined by staff and families of the women and men of the United Nations who lost their lives between 1 January 2015 and 30 June 2016, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a memorial service at UN Headquarters on Wednesday that “those who destroy may think bombs and bullets are the most powerful force […] but nothing is more powerful than the human spirit.â€