by Susan | Aug 17, 2020 | Monuments
Built between 2004 and 2006, the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation (also known as the Palace of Peace and Accord) represents all of the world’s religious faiths and houses educational facilities, a national center for Kazakhstan’s various geographical and ethnic...
by Susan | Jun 24, 2019 | Monuments
In September 2017 the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines unveiled a statue of the late human rights lawyer Jose “Pepe” Diokno, appointed by President Corazon Aquino as the founding chairman of the country’s watchdog agency against rights...
by Susan | Apr 1, 2019 | Monuments
The Shaheed Minar (Bengali: শহীদ মিনার Shohid Minar lit. “Martyr Monument”) commemorates those killed during the Bengali Language Movement demonstrations of 1952 in what was then East Pakistan. On 21 and 22 February 1952, students from Dhaka University,...
by Susan | Mar 25, 2019 | Monuments
The Martyred Intellectuals Memorial (Bengali: বুদ্ধিজীবি স্মৃতি সৌধ) was built in memory of the martyred intellectuals of the Bangladesh Liberation War. The cornerstone was laid in 1991. On the night of 14 December 1971, over 200 of East Pakistan’s intellectuals...
by Susan | Jul 23, 2018 | Monuments
In 1999, at the age of 15, Alexandra Nechita was named a United Nations ambassador of peace and goodwill through art. She had been brought to the US from Romania at the age of two, had sold her first painting at a library book sale at nine and was known throughout the...
