Chad Edition
Human Rights Day leads today's complete edition for Chad.
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A United Nations observance marking the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the dignity owed to every person.
A day for the thing remembered at the door, bought before closing, delivered before supper, or rescued just in time.
The date palm oases of northern Chad are miracles of green in a world of brown. The dates are sweet, the shade is cool, the water is close enough to the surface that a well can reach it. Every oasis is a community, every community is a waypoint on a route that has been traveled for millennia, and every traveler who has rested under a date palm knows the specific kind of relief that only an oasis can provide.