Fausto Ribeiro was born in Brazil in 1982. He obtained his law degree from the University of São Paulo with a dissertation about the UN’s (lack of) reaction to the genocide in Rwanda. He joined the Brazilian Foreign Service in 2007 and has since served in Brasilia, Amman, Geneva, and currently in Nouakchott, Mauritania. Email: [email protected]
by Fausto Ribeiro The year that marked the tenth anniversary of Sergio Vieira de Mello's death in Baghdad was also the one in which his biographer, Pulitzer Prize-winning activist Samantha Power, was nominated as the American Ambassador to the United Nations. Now, 2013 is over and the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the…
by Fausto Ribeiro For years, amidst the cold and dirty cement, nothing had revealed itself to me, and I left so many hours, so many days go by in emptiness, without doing much about it. So when I finally felt the moist grass beneath my bare feet, a beam of pleasure climbed up my legs…
by Fausto Ribeiro Let us imagine for a moment the following story: a man is sitting at the edge of a cliff, marveling at the immensity below and all of its beauty – a resplendent lake, enormous mountains, a vast field covered with trees, maybe a small village with a few lovely houses whose chimneys…