International Day of Sign Languages 23 September

The International Day of Sign Languages is an unique opportunity to support and protect the linguistic identity and cultural diversity of all deaf people and other sign language users. The 2021 theme, declared by the World Federation of the Deaf, is

“We Sign For Human Rights,”

 highlighting how each of us – deaf and hearing people around the world – can work together hand in hand to promote the recognition of our right to use sign languages in all areas of life.

 

According to the World Federation of the Deaf, there are more than 70 million deaf people worldwide.

More than 80% of them live in developing countries. Collectively, they use more than 300 different sign languages.

Sign languages are fully fledged natural languages, structurally distinct from the spoken languages. There is also an international sign language, which is used by deaf people in international meetings and informally when travelling and socializing. It is considered a pidgin form of sign language that is not as complex as natural sign languages and has a limited lexicon.

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognizes and promotes the use of sign languages. It makes clear that sign languages are equal in status to spoken languages and obligates states parties to facilitate the learning of sign language and promote the linguistic identity of the deaf community.

The UN General Assembly has proclaimed 23 September as the International Day of Sign Languages in order to raise awareness of the importance of sign language in the full realization of the human rights of people who are deaf.

The resolution establishing the day acknowledges that early access to sign language and services in sign language, including quality education available in sign language, is vital to the growth and development of the deaf individual and critical to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals.

 

It recognizes the importance of preserving sign languages as part of linguistic and cultural diversity. It also emphasizes the principle of

“nothing about us without us”

 in terms of working with deaf communities.

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2021 HWPL Western Africa Peace Initiative: Peace Educator Empowerment Training

2021 HWPL Western Africa Peace Initiative: Peace Educator Empowerment Training

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In June, the online “Peace Educator Empowerment Training” program was hosted in West Africa. The program began at the request of African educators and it has been conducted a total of eight times so far for educators and education officials in Nigeria and Ghana.

Africa’s population accounts for one-seventh of the world’s population, which is more than three times larger than the United States, with more than 2,000 diverse ethnicities and languages. It is called the continent of hope due to its abundant underground resources and endless potential for development. However, disputes and conflicts have arisen among various tribes as well as issues such as poverty, discrimination, and marginalization.

In particular, Nigeria had a total of 800 people killed and 65,000 refugees due to religious conflicts that began in the 1990s. Africa is still living in fear and anxiety of conflicts that can arise again among tribes. For this reason, educators in Africa are voicing the need for peace education and equipping themselves with the qualifications and the skills to become peace educators who can personally educate people on peace.

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During this program, lessons 1 to 12 of

HWPL’s peace education curriculum were introduced and the future of West Africa’s peace education plans were discussed. At the end of the program, a completion ceremony where educators were given duties was held. Educators who participated gained confidence in being able to achieve peace in Africa through this peace education.

Margaret ChiChi Nkire, the Executive Director of Leadership Empowerment and Development Innovation Initiative Africa (LEADIN AFRICA) showed a determination in working to the best of her ability as a peace educator as she said,

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 “HWPL Peace Education has given me the skills needed to pass the message of peace differently through teaching, by using the training module and contents to teach virtues of living in harmony and peaceful coexistence such as sacrifice and forgiveness.”

Educators in Africa hope

all students will love and practice peace by realizing the importance and value of peace through HWPL’s peace education. This can happen because they believe if everyone practices the value of peace, the seed of conflict and disputes will surely transform into a seed of peace. Through this program, the 375 educators and education officials will become leaders who will lead youths who are exposed to conflicts, discrimination, poverty, and violence to become seeds of peace.

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HWPL Peace Education’s vision

VISION & MISSION

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Despite the many differences that exist between individuals, we should all live in harmony in the global village; however, war and conflict currently threaten the lives and safety of all. In order to end war and inherit everlasting peace in the future, we must teach the values necessary for a new era of peace rather than the old ideology that has been stained by war.

HWPL Peace Education’s vision is to enlighten students and cultivate talented individuals with the values and spirit of peace, who can then play a pioneering role in spreading the culture of peace. This education provides a fundamental understanding of the basic principles that human beings must observe for peace to be created. Through the discovery and internalization of these peace values the inner selves of students and their ability to live together in harmony with others in their own community, and even the world, is properly nurtured.

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In order to successfully cultivate children and young people as peacemakers,

HWPL Peace Education first works to erase previously held ideas and values that are corrupt by directly showing how the world has become evil in the present era, and then plant the peaceful values needed for the new era of peace in their stead. It also introduces a new methodology in which the values of peace can be applied in all environments and real-life situations happening outside the classroom.

The HWPL Peace curriculum has been developed on the basis of the core values of peace, which include "Sanctity of Life", "Loyalty and Filial Piety", and "Coexistence and Sustainability", and demonstrates clearly how these peace values are applicable on a personal level, as well as within the broader community. HWPL Peace Education is an innovative education that pioneers the establishment and propagation of a culture of peace by cultivating talented individuals with the mindset of peace.

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International Equal Pay Day 18 September

Equal pay for work of equal value

The International Equal Pay Day, celebrated on 18 September, represents the longstanding efforts towards the achievement of equal pay for work of equal value. It further builds on the United Nations commitment to human rights and against all forms of discrimination, including discrimination against women and girls.

Across all regions, women are paid less than men, with the gender pay gap estimated at 23 per cent globally. Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls continues to be held back owing to the persistence of historical and structural unequal power relations between women and men, poverty and inequalities and disadvantages in access to resources and opportunities that limit women’s and girls’ capabilities.

Progress on narrowing that gap has been slow. While equal pay for men and women has been widely endorsed, applying it in practice has been difficult.

 

In order to ensure that no one is left behind, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address the need to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. Furthermore, the SDGs promote decent work and economic growth by seeking full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value. Mainstreaming of a gender perspective is crucial in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

 

Achieving equal pay is an important milestone for human rights and gender equality. It takes the effort of the entire world community and more work remains to be done. The United Nations, including UN Women and the International Labour Organization (ILO) invites Members states and civil society, women’s and community-based organizations and feminist groups, as well as businesses and workers’ and employers’ organizations, to promote equal pay for work of equal value and the economic empowerment of women and girls.

 

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INTERNATIONAL DAY : 17 September is World Patient Safety Day

17 September is World Patient Safety Day

World Patient Safety Day calls for global solidarity and concerted action by all countries and international partners to improve patient safety.

The Day brings together patients, families, caregivers, communities, health workers, health care leaders and policy-makers to show their commitment to patient safety.

The resolution WHA 72.6 ‘Global action on patient safety’ recognizes patient safety as a global health priority and endorses the establishment of World Patient Safety Day to be observed annually on 17 September.

World Patient Safety Day – established by the World Health Assembly in 2019 through resolution WHA72.6 on “Global action on patient safety” – is observed annually on 17 September. Objectives of the day are to enhance global understanding of patient safety, increase public engagement in health care safety, and promote global action to prevent and reduce avoidable harm in health care. Each year, a new theme is selected to shed light on a priority patient safety area where action is needed to reduce avoidable harm in health care and achieve universal health coverage.

Considering the significant burden of harm women and newborns are exposed to due to unsafe care, this year’s World Patient Safety Day is dedicated to the need to prioritize and address safety in maternal and newborn care, particularly around the time of childbirth, when most harm occurs.

This is especially important in the context of disruption of health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has further compounded the situation.

Since women’s experiences during childbirth are also affected by issues of gender equity and violence, World Patient Safety Day highlights the important notion of respectful care and its linkages with safety. 

 

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HWPL’s “We Are One (WAO)” Project Spreads Throughout All Regions of Mali

HWPL’s

“We Are One (WAO)” Project Spreads Throughout All Regions of Mali

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One People, One Goal, One Faith Realized by the Citizens of Mali

The “We Are One (WAO)” project which began in Mali in March 2021 is currently spreading nationwide with active participation from the civil organizations in each region of Mali.

 

Mali is a country that has suffered numerous casualties from the decade-long civil war and terrorism. In the past, Mali has shown hope for infinite growth as a leading country of African democracy. However, it has fallen into being one of Africa’s poorest countries due to the revolt of extremist forces in the northern region, ethnic conflict in the central region, and severe corruption in the political circles.

This has caused surrounding countries as well as the international community feel much pity and regret.

 

The Mali government has led several peace agreements with rebel forces to overcome the current situation, but they became useless and failed to resolve fundamental issues such as terrorism, conflict, and rebellion.

 

Mr. Nouhoun Diarra, Mayor of Segou, said that such failure was due to “bad governance.” He emphasized that substantive implementation is needed to overcome Mali’s current situation, not another peace agreement. He also said that it is time for citizens to participate actively.

 

 

 

The WAO project is a peace initiative designed with the cooperation of HWPL and the representatives of Mali civil groups to reflect on the current situation in Mali. This project, in which its starting point can be found at the SDGs Peace Seminar organized by

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Northern Seoul & Gyeonggi branch in November 2020, was established by the representatives of the Mali civil groups who attended the seminar. These representatives organized the project executive team and held various discussions.

 

For this project, they divided eight regions of Mali into three zones. They invited the representatives of civil groups from each zone and held seminars to educate them on the SDGs. They also organized dialogues in which citizens participated to discuss the cause of the conflict in each zone and its solution. The voices of citizens gathered through this discussion will be documented and submitted as a policy proposal to the government.

 

In March and June of this year, the project was successfully implemented in the northern and southern regions.

The representatives of civil groups in attendance discussed the cause and its solution based on the theme “Rebellion & Terrorism” and “Inter-ethnic conflict.”

They have come to the conclusion that a platform where citizens and the government can gather in one place to discuss the solution is needed in order to solve problems that the country faces.

 

Mr. Abdoulhamid Ag Watane, the coordinator of Gourma and co-organizer of the WAO project said, “The We Are One project examines the causes that prevent national cohesion and peace and proposes an effective solution.” He added that the WAO project would give great “synergy of actions in favor of peace and social cohesion, contributing significantly to building a Mali without conflict.”

 

Mr. Mohamed Maouloud Maiga, the former NGO Collaborator of the Parliament of Mali, said, “We may not speak the same language, we may not come from the same regions, we may have different histories, but we must agree to move in the same direction, which is the direction of peace, the direction to end wars.” He also said, “Our expectation for the WAO project is to conduct a platform where civil society and the government meet to discuss the problems of Mali and to find peaceful resolutions.”

 

Meanwhile, HWPL has drafted a policy proposal document with the project executive team to propose the Dialogue for Peace and Social Cohesion. Starting with the signatures from the project executive team, they plan to launch a large-scale signature campaign which begins in August. Through the campaign, we hope that the WAO project will be established as a policy, and that sustainable peace will be realized in Mali.

 

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DPCW_1038 : Virtual Conference to Introduce Peace Activities Led by Global Citizens in the Pandemic Era

Virtual Conference to Introduce Peace Activities Led by Global Citizens in the Pandemic Era

On May 25, 2021, HWPL's 8th Annual Commemoration of the Declaration of World Peace was held online and attended by 3,000 people from 150 countries around the world.

 

With several cases of international partnership for peacebuilding projects endorsed by youth and women organizations categorized by each region – Africa, Europe, and Asia, this year’s event aimed to discuss a citizen-led peace movement and cooperation to promote coexistence and harmony in the global community, and to overcome global challenges that stem from hatred, conflicts, misunderstanding, and lack of communication in this current pandemic era.

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The event commemorated the Declaration of World Peace, proclaimed on May 25th in 2013, which contains not only the cooperation of each state to establish international law for peace and the role of the media in contribution to sharing information of peace but also the active peace movement of youth and women who seek to transform themselves from the greatest victims of war to the greatest actors for peace.

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From this peace initiative, HWPL says that millions of global citizens for 8 years have participated in promoting peace projects locally fitted to creating a favorable environment of peace, including education, relief, and forums to offer public policies to meet the needs of the community.

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Chairperson Pacale Isho Warda of Hammurabi Human Rights Organization(HHRO) in Iraq, who was appointed as Minister of Migration and Displacement by the UN from 2004 to 2005, introduced a legislation project of law that prevents violence against women and children in cooperation with IWPG.

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Regarding the importance of peace activities through education, she said, “We need to learn the mechanism of guiding everyone to become a tool of peace, strengthening from daily life, and sometimes throughout the simplest matter of life, starting with personal peace with oneself, in the family, and with others.”

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Ven. Ashin Htavara, General Secretary of All Burmese Monks Representative Committee in Norway, who went through the Saffron Revolution in 2007, stated that 3 HWPL Peace Libraries were established in Payapon, Myanmar and that a fourth library is currently being prepared.

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“There are too few libraries for children in Myanmar. I wanted to give hope to these little children. In the future, the library will conduct peace education, peace activities, and peace campaigns, and we will do everything that can help achieve peace,” he said.

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The event also advocated global participation in peace activities such as the peace tree planting campaign that began in Ukraine with 1,000 participants from 21 countries and peace policy proposal dialogue between citizens and policy experts in Mali where the recent coup triggered social unrest.

 

“It is we in this day who have to do all the necessary things to make peace and prevent our globe from being destroyed.

War does not end with words, but it comes to an end with our practical actions. I believe that this can be achieved since no one in our global village is not willing to see peace,” highlighted Chairman Lee of HWPL.

 

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