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From Melbourne and Back Again,ee them as chronological goalposts measuring time passed but not those consequential events that may have happened on only one day or over the course of a number of years. Historical episodes may be time bound, but for those who are directly engaged they may never end.

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,Surviving in the People’s Paradise: DPRK,flight leading a delegation of UNFPA colleagues to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (commonly known as North Korea, hereafter DPRK). On boarding, the flight attendants directed us to sit in ‘business class’.

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Welcome to the UN Family,“Welcome to the UN family,” the ILO representative said. When I looked puzzled, he added, “The ILO is a specialised agency of the United Nations.”

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Learning by Doing: Bangladesh,Our arrival in Dhaka was a shock. There were three of us, including myself, my then wife and my teenage niece. We were not mentally prepared for the heat, the dust, and the squalor. On arrival, the aggression of the customs’ officials as they vetted our belongings primed our sense of unease. We were instantly suspicious of all around us.

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A Success?: Sri Lanka,I would like to say I made a difference in Sri Lanka. I didn’t. My counterparts did. Because of them I choose to write about a country I enjoyed immensely.

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From East to West: Kenya,“It will only be for a year,” I said, referring to a new ILO offer but secretly hoping it would be extended. It was 1988 and there was no guarantee of a longer contract but I needed to persuade my wife and children to leave a stable situation and journey, yet again, to another strange and unknown continent.