International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, 30 August

More than a human rights 

violation against 

an individual

Enforced disappearance has frequently been used as a strategy to spread terror within the society. The feeling of insecurity generated by this practice is not limited to the close relatives of the disappeared, but also affects their communities and society as a whole.

Enforced disappearance has become a global problem and is not restricted to a specific region of the world. Once largely the product of military dictatorships, enforced disappearances can nowadays be perpetrated in complex situations of internal conflict, especially as a means of political repression of opponents. Of particular concern are:

the ongoing harassment of human rights defenders, relatives of victims, witnesses and legal counsel dealing with cases of enforced disappearance;

the use by States of counter-terrorist activities as an excuse for breaching their obligations;

and the still widespread impunity for enforced disappearance.

 

Special attention must also be paid to specific groups of especially vulnerable people, like children and people with disabilities.

Hundreds of thousands of people have vanished during conflicts or periods of repression in at least 85 countries around the world.

 

Who Is Affected?

The Victims Themselves

The victims are frequently tortured and in constant fear for their lives. They are well aware that their families do not know what has become of them and that the chances are slim that anyone will come to their aid. Having been removed from the protective precinct of the law and “disappeared” from society, they are in fact deprived of all their rights and are at the mercy of their captors.

Even if death is not the final outcome and the victim is eventually released from the nightmare, the physical and psychological scars of this form of dehumanization and the brutality and torture which often accompany it remain.

A Serious Violation of Human Rights

Having been removed from the protective precinct of the law and "disappeared" from society, victims of enforced disappearance are in fact deprived of all their rights and are at the mercy of their captors. Some of the human rights that enforced disappearances regularly violate are:

The right to recognition as a person before the law;

The right to liberty and security of the person;

The right not to be subjected to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;

The right to life, when the disappeared person is killed;

The right to an identity;

The right to a fair trial and to judicial guarantees;

The right to an effective remedy, including reparation and compensation;

The right to know the truth regarding the circumstances of a disappearance.

Enforced disappearances also generally violate various economic, social and cultural rights for both the victims as well as their families:

The right to protection and assistance to the family;

The right to an adequate standard of living;

The right to health;

The right to education.

 

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#NO_VIOLATIONS #LIFE #EDUCATION

 

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International Day against Nuclear Tests 29 August

Since nuclear weapons testing began on 16 July 1945, over 2,000 have taken place. In the early days of nuclear testing little consideration was given to its devastating effects on human life, let alone the dangers of nuclear fallout from atmospheric tests. Hindsight and history have shown us the terrifying and tragic effects of nuclear weapons testing, especially when controlled conditions go awry, and in light of the far more powerful and destructive nuclear weapons that exist today.

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On 2 December 2009, the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly declared 29 August the International Day against Nuclear Tests by unanimously adopting resolution 64/35. The resolution calls for increasing awareness and education “about the effects of nuclear weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosions and the need for their cessation as one of the means of achieving the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world.” The resolution was initiated by the Republic of Kazakhstan, together with a large number of sponsors and cosponsors with a view to commemorating the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test site on 29 August 1991.

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2010 marked the inaugural commemoration of the International Day against Nuclear Tests. In each subsequent year, the day has been observed by coordinating various activities throughout the world, such as symposia, conferences, exhibits, competitions, publications, lectures, media broadcasts and other initiatives. 

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Since its establishment, many bilateral and multilateral governmental level developments as well as broad movements in civil society have helped to advance the cause of banning nuclear tests.

 

Moreover,

 

“convinced that nuclear disarmament and the total elimination of nuclear weapons are the only absolute guarantee against the use or threat of nuclear weapons,” the General Assembly designated 26 September as the “International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons", which is devoted to furthering the objective of the total elimination of nuclear weapons, through the mobilization of international efforts. The International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons was observed for the first time in September 2014. The International Day against Nuclear Tests, together with other events and actions, has fostered a global environment that strongly advocates for a world free of nuclear weapons.

The international instrument to put an end to all forms of nuclear testing is the 1996 Comprehensive

Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

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Unfortunately, this has yet to enter into force.

 

As the Secretary-General recognized in his disarmament agenda “Securing our Common Future” launched on 24 May 2018, the norm against testing is an example of a measure that serves both disarmament and non-proliferation objectives. By constraining the development of advanced new types of nuclear weapons, the CTBT puts a brake on the arms race. It also serves as a powerful normative barrier against potential States that might seek to develop, manufacture and subsequently acquire nuclear weapons in violation of their non-proliferation commitments.

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Every effort needs to be made to ensure the entry into force of the CTBT and to preserve its place in the international architecture. In this regard, the Secretary-General appeals to all remaining States whose ratifications are required for the CTBT to enter into force to commit to sign the Treaty at an early date if they have not already done so, and to accelerate the completion of their ratification processes.

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It is the hope of the UN that one day all nuclear weapons will be eliminated. Until then, there is a need to observe International Day against Nuclear Tests as the world works towards promoting peace and security.

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HWPL Peace Education

HWPL Peace Education

‖‖It is an education that fosters citizens of peace with the value and spirit of peace.

There is no place under heaven and earth that is more beautiful and better to live in than the Earth. However, many people are suffering from war, famine, a gap between the rich and the poor, environmental pollution, and more all over the world due to human greed and selfishness. Such reality that humanity faces still remains a problem to be solved and is being passed on to the future generations. Therefore, HWPL proposed peace education as a way to leave a beautiful world of peace as a legacy for the future generations.

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Training a rising generation as citizens of peace is more important than anything else to transform the future of the global community into a better world. In order for such future leaders to be born, education must be provided to students at school on topics such as peaceful attitudes, values, and experiences so that they can practice them in society.

 

 

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#PEACE_WALK #PEACE #DPCW

 

HWPL Peace Education’s Vision and Goals

It aims for the heroes responsible for the next generation to become citizens of peace, cultivate the spirit of peace, and solve global security problems so that they become leaders who create global harmony and achieve peace.

 

Structure of HWPL Peace Education Curriculum

Part 1 Finding the meaning of peace and its value

Everything in nature has a different look and characteristic, but it all comes together creating harmony as well as beautiful scenery. If one understands the principles of “respect diversity and harmony” and “cooperation and coexistence” embedded within nature, then they will realize that the human world can also move forward in harmony and beauty.In part 1, students learn about how various people with different races, religions, cultures, nationalities, ideas, appearances, and more gather to form order and a harmonious relationship, and the true meaning and value of peace.

 

Part 2 Being qualified as a citizen of peace

In part 2, students learn about specific ways to live in harmony with everyone in the world and the community – beyond their families and neighbors. It helps to develop upright values and the character needed to coexist peacefully with others and solve all problems peacefully.

 

DPCW_1038 : Peace Letter Campaign

 

PEACE LETTER

Please become a messenger of peace and share the need for the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW) with the leaders around the world!

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Peace we write, one minute is enough.

With the current international legal instruments from the UN, it is difficult to cease wars. The DPCW is an international legal instrument on peace which can leave a world of peace as a legacy for the future generations. Please share the need for the DPCW with the leaders around the world.

The power to achieve peace begins with our hands.

Please become a messenger of peace and write a Peace Letter.

We urge the following.

✍Please cooperate with us so that the DPCW can be introduced and adopted by the UN.

✍Please support the DPCW so that it can be developed as a legal instrument of peace.

✍Please send your replies to the Peace Letter.

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HWPL Peace Library increases access to education in Madagascar

HWPL Peace Library increases access to education in Madagascar

 

On April 29th, 2022, the HWPL Peace Library was established for the first time in Madagascar in collaboration with four local organizations, including Ank’Izy, Actions for Integrated Development (ASDI), National Consortium for Citizen Participation (CNPC) Madagascar, and Malagasy Fampihavanana Council (CFM).

 

Madagascar is currently in a challenging situation where more than half of the country’s 1.3 million primary-aged children are not enrolled in school, mostly due to their economic distress. This forces them to take on the role of being the primary caretakers of their families. On top Madagascar’s poor economic state, natural disasters are posing a critical threat to the country’s educational infrastructure where cyclones alone have destroyed over 8,500 classrooms this year.

The Madagascar HWPL Peace Library is a peace project designed to give local students and citizens more opportunities to gain access to education by transforming a rarely used or deserted space into a library and filling it with books and diverse educational programs.

 

The first HWPL Peace Library in Madagascar was established at EPP Ampasandratsarahoby, an elementary school, where a space that was once damaged by a cyclone was renovated into a functional library. The renovation took place for approximately two weeks, and technicians and volunteers from HWPL dedicated their time and effort to put together the damaged space into a library. In addition, the 200 books that were donated to the school were sponsored by our partners: Mr. Richard Jean Bosco Rivotiana, Member of the National Assembly, and Association Ank’Izy. After the HWPL Peace Library was established, educational programs were conducted once a week throughout the month of May and June with the purpose of teaching the students basic education, including French, English, and the mindset of peace.

 

According to Mrs. Ramaroson Malala, Director of EPP Ampasandratsarahoby, the current allotted time to educate the students in the school is not enough to form a mindset of peace. In this regard, the programs of the HWPL Peace Library can be described as an “opportunity” where students can be more exposed to fundamental education.

Currently, HWPL is in the process of signing an MOU with the City of Antananarivo. The city has promised to provide financial support in transporting the donated books from abroad, and HWPL will provide gradual activity-based education within the six district libraries with its partnered organizations. Through this partnership, HWPL is not only expected to raise up to 1,000 books to donate to the facilities in need by the end of this year, but they are also expected to reach out to 192 rural and unprivileged villages within the City of Antananarivo to provide basic education and the mindset of peace.

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“Silencing the Guns Project in Botswana: A focus on Gender-Based Violence – 1st Workshop”

Date and Time: Wednesday, 27 April 2022, 10AM (CAT)

 

Location: Online (Zoom)

 

Topics: Gender Based Violence, Human Rights

 

Host: HWPL Gangwon Branch

 

Speakers:

 

Honourable Councillor Joyce Tumagole, Councillor, Gaborone City Council

 

Ms Abisola Shofoyeke, Volunteer, International Peace Youth Group

Webinar was held to educate Botswana youth on the current status of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Botswana, highlight the causes of GBV and to give them practical ways to address this GBV in their communities.

 

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“the probability of children who have witnessed their parents’ violence becoming violent themselves as a parent to their children or to their partner is extremely high. In addition, those children don’t know how to solve conflicts with anything but violence, and they tend to find themselves in relationships where they continue being victims of violence.

 

Ms Abisola Shofoyeke

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Introduction Webinar

 

On 27 April 2022, a virtual workshop to enable intergenerational dialogue to break the long-standing cycle of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) was held in Botswana.

The workshop is a joint initiative between an international peace NGO called Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), International Peace Youth Group(IPYG), and Volunteer Hub(VH), a social enterprise that contributes to alleviate socio-economic and environmental challenges in Botswana.

GBV is a serious issue that the international community is paying attention to amid reports of a surge in violence against many women and children globally during the pandemic. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), more than 67% of women in Botswana have experienced gender-based violence, which is over double the global average. And globally, an average of 1 in 3 women will experience physical or sexual abuse jeopardizing their sexual and reproductive health.

 

Councillor Joyce Tumagole expressed her gratitude for such a youth dialogue platform on behalf of the Gaborone City Council Office of the Mayor “As many of us are already aware, GBV has unfortunately continued to worsen in recent years. Today, we are here, as the people of Botswana, to take charge to equip ourselves with tools that will allow us to address GBV in our communities by understanding how to approach it with peace as a goal.”

 

Background Information

 

GBV undermines a women’s health, dignity, security, and autonomy. But according to the UNFPA, the bigger problem is that the seriousness of GBV is shrouded by a culture of silence and normalization. So this project is rated as an attempt to address these major problems such as a lack of education and information in Botswana.

 

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During the main presentation on the Peace Education values, Abisola Shofoyeke from the IPYG said, “the probability of children who have witnessed their parents’ violence becoming violent themselves as a parent to their children or to their partner is extremely high. In addition, those children don’t know how to solve conflicts with anything but violence, and they tend to find themselves in relationships where they continue being victims of violence.”

 

Abisola Shofoyeke suggested the Peace Education of HWPL which teaches youth to know their duty, role, value, and influence within society to break the cycle of violence. “All creation lives in harmony. All people are connected to each other, and they influence one another. Depending on how they look at others, the influence they have may differ.”, she added.

 

 

Points of discussion

 

During the main presentation on the Peace Education values, Abisola Shofoyeke from the IPYG said, “the probability of children who have witnessed their parents’ violence becoming violent themselves as a parent to their children or to their partner is extremely high. In addition, those children don’t know how to solve conflicts with anything but violence, and they tend to find themselves in relationships where they continue being victims of violence.”

 

Abisola Shofoyeke suggested the Peace Education of HWPL which teaches youth to know their duty, role, value, and influence within society to break the cycle of violence. “All creation lives in harmony. All people are connected to each other, and they influence one another. Depending on how they look at others, the influence they have may differ.”, he added.

 

 

Highlights

 

Young Attendee: “Botswana needs places where more platforms where people can speak and be heard and needs more organisations that tackle this head on.”

 

Young Attendee: “I just want to appreciate this approach because it gives us hope and it boost our confidence to make an impact when fighting GBV because like I said it starts with a person”

 

Young Attendee: “GBV is complex and likely to take place even in places we least expect (circles of support) and hence from this session, I would say we ought not to judge those in the situations instead we ought to be supportive and not victimize those who have been victimized already”

 

Abisola Shofoyeke: “Something else that we can learn from creation is that – all creation lives in harmony because they receive help from each other and fill each other’s needs. A person cannot live alone.”

 

Next Steps

 

We will continue with this campaign until September, there will be a continuous online campaign to raise awareness. There will also be one more workshop in July and an Inter-generational dialogue in September to present all that has been learned and come to a consensus on the way forward.

 

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INTERNATIONAL DAY : World Humanitarian Day 19 August

 

2022 Campaign

 

The best way to join the campaign is to share the profiles and other materials via your social media channels with

 

#ItTakesAVillage

and

#worldhumanitarianday.

 

Home to the campaign, the WHD website will launch on 12 August with easy-to-share feature content for social media and a toolkit to help humanitarian partners create and roll out material to highlight their work around the world.

 

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It takes a village

There is a saying that goes: It takes a village to raise a child. Similarly, it takes a village to support a person in a humanitarian crisis. With record-high humanitarian needs around the world, this year’s World Humanitarian Day (WHD) builds on this metaphor of collective endeavour to grow global appreciation of humanitarian work

Whenever and wherever people are in need, there are others who help them. They are the affected people themselves – always first to respond when disaster strikes – and a global community that supports them as they recover. Far from the spotlight and out of the headlines, they come together to ease suffering and bring hope.

 

The 2022 WHD campaign shines a light on the thousands of volunteers, professionals and crisis-affected people who deliver urgent health care, shelter, food, protection, water and much more.

 

For this year’s WHD, we will use digital art to tell the stories of people in need and those who help them. At the centre of the campaign is a series of beautifully illustrated aid worker profiles that show the breadth and depth of humanitarian work and collectively symbolize the wider humanitarian village.

 

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DPCW_1038 : “Paint the Peace”

“Paint the Peace”,

Religious Youth Peace Camp and MOU Signing Ceremony co-hosted by HWPL Daegu-Gyeongbuk Branch and Jeevak Yoga Treatment and Vocational Training Institute

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On 28th and 29th June, HWPL Daegu-Gyeongbuk Branch signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Jeevak Yoga Treatment and Vocational Training Institute aimed at working together and promoting peace activities and future peace cooperation projects in India. To celebrate the landmark event, a two-day programme was organized at the premises of the Institute with participation from over 300 people including students, staff, and distinguished guests among the audience.

 

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Bethel Knox students recently started taking the HWPL Peace Education program, and their faces gleamed with excitement and anticipation for a future of peace throughout the event. Bethel Knox is offering the HWPL Peace Education program to inspire students with the spirit of peace and nurture future peace activists. Peace Education is set to serve as a building block to bring people of diverse ethnicities and cultures together to call for peace. Students who finish the Peace Education courses will become the beacon of a brighter and more peaceful future.

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#IPYG #WARP_OFFICE #DPCW_1038 #DPCW

 

In addition, a street play (skit) was also performed by students with the aim to instil the spirit of religious harmony, oneness and understanding among people. The enthusiastic participation of students with costumes symbolic of different religions was appreciated by everyone in attendance. The skit successfully communicated that religious harmony is significant in a diverse country like ours, for prosperity and growth of our nation. The students also took a pledge to uphold freedom of thought in religion and to respect each other’s religion in order to maintain harmony and build a strong India.

 

Sharing his thoughts regarding the event, Dr. Beniram Koche, President of Jeevak Yoga Treatment and Vocational Training Institute said, “The competition that we organized for the youths has impacted them in a good way. The youths started thinking about peace and humanity, and about themselves. There is discrimination that is made against them. Through the programs, they were finally able to understand.”