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New Zealand has been a UN member since 1945, it was one of the original founding signatories.

UN adds Israel and Russia to blacklist for sexual violence in conflict | United Nations | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/29/un-israel-russia-blacklist-sexual-violence-conflict

Organisation cites abuse, including rape of male detainees, by security forces of governments which have blocked UN investigators

#NZPol #WarCrime #Obligations

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦May 18

“It turns out that the kinds of #career #pressures familiar to #employees everywhere … can be enough to incentivize lower- and #midlevel #officials to violate #professional #obligations, fundamental #norms and even basic #morality.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Actually, Democracy Dies in H....

Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.

New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power.

The New York Times

SNES-FSU Toulouse Mar 27

Au #stage #syndical du @SNES_FSU_Toulouse consacré aux " #Droits et #Obligations du #fonctionnaire", point d'actualité sur les les effets du #budget2026 sur la #préparation de #rentrée2026 dans l'académie et sur nos #salaires et #carrières, devant une salle comble !

📢 En #grève le #31mars 🗓 !

Richard Michael Blaber Mar 7

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-owned-train-company-has-been-failing-on-disability-awareness-training-for-more-than-four-years/. "A government-owned #train company has had to promise to make significant improvements to the #disability #awareness training of its station staff after a regulator discovered it had been failing to fulfil its #legal #obligations for more than 4 years."

Government-owned train company has been failing on disability awareness training for more than four years

A government-owned train company has had to promise to make significant improvements to the disability awareness training of its station staff after a regulator discovered it had been failing to fu…

Disability News Service

Adult ADHD Neurodivergent Tips Mar 3

Episode 34 - Navigating Obligations as a Neurodivergent Human

From the archives! 🎙️ Episode 34 discusses strategies for managing obligations that often overwhelm hunter-types, focusing on creating balance.
https://www.drummerandthegreatmountain.com/adult-adhd-add-tips-and-support-podcast-navigating-obligations-as-a-hunter-type
#adhd #neurodivergent #Obligations

Eric Foltin Feb 17

I Don’t Budget. I Settle Scores.

Daily writing promptWrite about your approach to budgeting.View all responses Budgeting is sold like a moral virtue. It isn’t. It’s math with a superiority complex. My approach is brutally simple: I pay the bills, and whatever survives the carnage is mine. No color-coded spreadsheets. No envelopes stuffed with labeled guilt. Just obligations handled first, freedom second. It’s not chaos. It’s triage. The system works because it respects reality. Rent or mortgage, utilities, […]

https://ericfoltin.com/2026/02/17/i-dont-budget-i-settle-scores/

WIST Quotations Feb 4

A quotation from Montaigne

A good marriage, if there are such, rejects the company and conditions of love; it strives to show forth those of friendship. It is a calm fellowship of life, full of fidelity, of trust, and of an endless number of useful and substantial mutual duties and obligations.

[Un bon mariage, s’il en est, refuse la compagnie & conditions de l’amour : il tasche à representer celles de l’amitié. C’est une douce societé de vie, pleine de constance, de fiance, & d’un nombre infiny d’utiles & solides offices, & obligations mutuelles.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 3, ch. 5 (3.5), “Of Some Verses of Virgil [Sur des vers de Virgile]” (1586) [tr. Ives (1925)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #assistance #duties #fellowship #fidelity #friendship #love #marriage #mutualrespect #mutualsupport #obligations #passion #trust