INTERNATIONAL DAY : World Toilet Day 19 November

Valuing toilets

“Who cares about toilets? 3.6 billion people do. Because they don’t have one that works properly.“

That is the starting point of this 2021 Campaign

for World Toilet Day.

The Observance celebrates toilets and raises awareness of the 3.6 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. When some people in a community do not have safe toilets, everyone’s health is threatened.

Poor sanitation contaminates drinking-water sources, rivers, beaches and food crops, spreading deadly diseases among the wider population.

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This year’s theme is about valuing toilets.

The campaign draws attention to the fact that toilets – and the sanitation systems that support them – are underfunded, poorly managed or neglected in many parts of the world, with devastating consequences for health, economics and the environment, particularly in the poorest and most marginalized communities.

On the other hand, the advantages of investing in an adequate sanitation system are immense. For instance, every $1 invested in basic sanitation returns up to $5 in saved medical costs and increased productivity, and jobs are created along the entire service chain. For women and girls, toilets at home, school and at work help them fulfil their potential and play their full role in society, especially during menstruation and pregnancy.

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The solution is about taking action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.

Even though sanitation is a human right recognized by the United Nations, we urgently need massive investment and innovation to quadruple progress all along the ‘sanitation chain’, from toilets to the transport, collection and treatment of human waste.

As part of a human rights-based approach, governments must listen to the people who are being left behind without access to toilets and allocate specific funding to include them in planning and decision-making processes.

 

 

Who cares about toilets?

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The Story that HWPL Peace Messengers Achieve Peace: Peace International Law

The Story that HWPL Peace Messengers Achieve Peace: Peace International Law

Many peace messengers from all over the world attended the

“7th Anniversary of the September 18th HWPL World Peace Summit”

held online last month. HWPL asked some common questions to the attendees for the future activities. Many answered with all their heart, and HWPL would like to share some of them.

Meet the stories of the peace messengers who are achieving peace with HWPL in their respective fields such as peace international law, alliance of religions, peace education, and the IPYG!

 

Q1. How has HWPL peace activities influenced you?

H.E. Ruben Maye Nsue Mangue, Former Minister of Ministry of Justice of Equatorial Guinea
First of all, I like and appreciate all peace activities of HWPL. But the most interesting program for me is the dialogues for peace. Peaceful dialogue. So dialogue for peace. And also the promotion and respect for human rights, for peace, and all of the activities. But of all these activities, the most important among them is dialogue for peace.

(Mr.) Clement Iornongu, International Centre for Peace Charities and Human Development (INTERCEP), Executive Director
It changed my perspective. It changed my perspective about peace and peace building—in my local community, and the subnational level, and at the national level, and now global level. Because participating in the activities of HWPL opened my eyes to see that again, taking from my perspective of understanding of scriptures, I now have a deeper knowledge of what the principles of what peace building is all about and deepened my knowledge of how to approach the peace building and strengthen the peace-building in my community using the principles initiated by HWPL.

For example, when having been exposed to peace education, I have to also participate in teaching the children in the schools. And now I came to understand the real value of peace in what havoc and greed causes in society and how children should respect the elders and also how to look at the harmony in nature, how they work together in the peaceful way and if you let that to a human relationship, you realize that Chairman Manhee Lee is just at all. The mission given from God is true, it cannot be disputed in any way. Because it expanded the scriptures to me and to the children.

Q2. Like the theme of the 7th Anniversary of the September 18 HWPL World Peace Summit, joint efforts are urgently needed for sustainable peace. In times like this, what do you think is the 'common effort' for sustainable peace? Also, what would your plans be for sustainable peace with HWPL?

H.E. Ruben Maye Nsue Mangue, Former Minister of Ministry of Justice of Equatorial Guinea
In order to live in peace, people at different levels must love each other and take all necessary joint effort for the restoration of peace. That is why joint effort is very important.

The most important thing in order to get a solution to this problem or any situation is to perform all your exercise or housework and duties with the truth. That will promote peace and security among the people.

Is there a way to universalize the value of DPCW in civil society even in Equatorial Guinea? Equatorial Guinea is not a democratic country and needs a peaceful culture. The first problem the country has faced is that after the year of independence 12th of October 1968 many people were killed extra-judicially. One sure way to help the suffering people in Equatorial Guinea is to start a peace dialogue program with DPCW on the national level. It should be started at the civil society level and once the voice of the people will be gathered, the government will also support this DPCW.

(Mr.) Clement Iornongu, International Centre for Peace Charities and Human Development (INTERCEP), Executive Director
The theme of this year’s celebration is out. And it borders on the DPCW, that is the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War, which the whole world needs to be. And to me, the world needs peace currently. The 10 articles and 38 clauses dwells massively on if it’s implemented. The world will begin to experience peace, because we convert all the factories manufacturing armament with food factories which will enrich the humanity more than war.

So to me, it’s core for the collective humanity to work together to live in peace by implementing this DPCW globally and work together to ensure the United Nations and the global community adopts the 10 articles and 38 clauses to complement what is already in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. DPCW will complement that international instrument, so DPCW is a wonderful instrument which the Chairman has got on board to reach a peaceful coexistence globally.

It’s advocacy. Continuous advocacy. And the interrelationship with those who are hesitating to let them know that HWPL, the 10 articles and the clauses are meant for the world and the well-being of the humanity. So we will continue to connect with them to explain this is what HWPL stands for. This is for global peace. Let them know what it states.

When human beings don’t understand anything to the fullest then they start to get uninvolved, unanswered, but if we keep advocating and keep letting them know that we need to really get involved then they should not hesitate because this is a great avenue and opportunity for us to join together for the common goal of humanity. We keep increasing awareness on HWPL and the DPCW so that people can get involved massively. It’s a greater movement, it’s a greater network. And the world is built on network these days.

At the local and national level, I know that when HWPL was in touch with us, there are networks in Lagos, Jos, and in Kano, and in some other areas. So we just need to organize these networks into a strong platform to implement some of the articles and clauses of the DPCW locally to give a boost and let the UN know that HWPL is accepted globally including in Nigeria.

That’s why Nigeria is behind HWPL so DPCW should be adopted in United Nations just like Chairman Manhee Lee said, it’s a legacy to the humanity. So let us leave a legacy as human beings, a peaceful world.

So in 2022 we’ll highlight this idea conceived by Chairman and we’ll push it forward the adoption by the United Nations, and to leave in schools and families and the society as a whole.

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#PEACE #NIGERIA #UN #DPCW_1038 #LAGOS

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INTERNATIONAL DAY :18 to 24 November is World Antimicrobial Awareness Week

 

18 to 24 November

 is

World Antimicrobial

 Awareness Week

Celebrated annually, the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) aims to increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance and to encourage best practices among the general public, health workers and policy makers to avoid the further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections.

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A global action plan to tackle the growing problem of resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines was endorsed at the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly in May 2015.

One of the key objectives of the plan is to improve awareness and understanding of antimicrobial resistance through effective communication, education and training.

Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is celebrated from 18-24 November every year. The 2021 theme, Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance, calls on One Health stakeholders, policymakers, health care providers, and the general public to be Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness champions.

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Information about WAAW activities, the new Go Blue for AMR campaign, stories and resources is below. Sign up for the WAAW and AMR newsletter for further details.

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DPCW_1038 : Concerted Action for Sustainable Peace: Cases of the "Legislate Peace" Project

Concerted Action for Sustainable Peace: Cases of the

 

"Legislate Peace" Project

 

Concerted Action for Sustainable Peace: Cases of the

"Legislate Peace" Project

HWPL is conducting the "Legislate Peace" (LP) project, an initiative to garner support for the DPCW and achieve its adoption at the international level. Starting this year, we have launched new campaigns to bring fresh energy to our society that has grown weary of the pandemic.

 

Online Study Group on the DPCW Handbook

 

One of the campaigns is an online study group on the DPCW Handbook. This handbook explains the 10 articles and 38 clauses of the DPCW in detail. The study aims to teach citizens about the values and spirit of peace embodied in each article and urge them to support the DPCW.

The idea of the handbook was first suggested at the 7th International Law Peace Committee Meeting in 2019 and was developed step by step even in the midst of the pandemic. As a result, the handbook was finalized in October 2020. The handbook includes content on each article of the DPCW as well as related international issues, which can open in-depth discussions on why peace is necessary and how it can be achieved.

 

Dr. Mizanur Rahman, dean and professor of law at the University of Dhaka, recruited law school students from 14 universities in Bangladesh and India and held online study sessions using the DPCW Handbook.

 

Q. Why did you introduce the DPCW Handbook as a textbook of education?

I think that the DPCW Handbook enables us to systematically teach international law and the essence of peace to these students and others. And that enables these students to become lecturers in the following course.

 

Q. Please tell us how you felt while hosting the DPCW Handbook Discussion Project.

It was very interesting to see how these students become lecturers in international [laws] and ambassadors of peace while they talked to others the DPCW Handbook and how they become ambassadors of peace in the whole world.

 

Q. Do you have any plans after the DPCW Handbook Discussion Project?

Obviously I do have, because after the instructions in the DPCW Handbook on peace, I want to become a lecturer in DPCW Handbook and inculcate the message of DPCW peace through my students. So I will be a lecturer not only at my home, but I want to reach out to the students elsewhere in other cities and in the region as such.

 

The DPCW handbook online study sessions have been held in 20 schools in Bangladesh, India, and Tunisia since November 2020. Students analyzed and explored the DPCW through discussions and presentations, while legal experts and professors participated as mentors.

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The idea of the handbook was first suggested at the 7th International Law Peace Committee Meeting in 2019 and was developed step by step even in the midst of the pandemic. As a result, the handbook was finalized in October 2020. The handbook includes content on each article of the DPCW as well as related international issues, which can open in-depth discussions on why peace is necessary and how it can be achieved.

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Dr. Mizanur Rahman, dean and professor of law at the University of Dhaka, recruited law school students from 14 universities in Bangladesh and India and held online study sessions using the DPCW Handbook.

 

Q. Why did you introduce the DPCW Handbook as a textbook of education?

I think that the DPCW Handbook enables us to systematically teach international law and the essence of peace to these students and others. And that enables these students to become lecturers in the following course.

 

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Q. Please tell us how you felt while hosting the DPCW Handbook Discussion Project.

It was very interesting to see how these students become lecturers in international [laws] and ambassadors of peace while they talked to others the DPCW Handbook and how they become ambassadors of peace in the whole world.

 

Q. Do you have any plans after the DPCW Handbook Discussion Project?

Obviously I do have, because after the instructions in the DPCW Handbook on peace, I want to become a lecturer in DPCW Handbook and inculcate the message of DPCW peace through my students. So I will be a lecturer not only at my home, but I want to reach out to the students elsewhere in other cities and in the region as such.

#PEACE

The DPCW handbook online study sessions have been held in 20 schools in Bangladesh, India, and Tunisia since November 2020.

Students analyzed and explored the DPCW through discussions and presentations, while legal experts and professors participated as mentors.

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Mr. Arifur Rahman, Bangladesh, Department of Law, University of Dhaka/Student

Q. Please feel free to tell us what you felt special about participating in the DPCW Handbook Discussion Project.

Joining the six month-long DPCW Handbook Discussion Project was a wonderful peace learning experience for me. The whole course was quite special. But one thing that I will always particularly cherish about this course was its particular focus on the importance of peace education.

Throughout this Discussion Project, I came to learn about the importance of peace education through the DPCW. And I was persuaded to believe how the importance of peace education can be an effective tool to end the war all over the world.

 

I joined this course with some brilliant mentors and enthusiastic learners from home and abroad.

Throughout this project, I was trained on the importance of peace education by putting the various human rights crisis in the context. I believe that the knowledge that I have gained from this course will be great contribution for the society and I feel really really great about participating this course for this reason.

 

Q. Please tell us what your future plans are.

I am currently final year law student at University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and as I have also graduated from the DPCW course, I aim to join the “Peace Education and Culture Based on the DPCW for Citizens” as a lecturer to spread the importance of peace education among the ordinary people. Because I believe DPCW has the potentiality to end the crisis like the ongoing Rohingya crisis we are facing in Bangladesh or the current human rights crisis in Afghanistan.

 

And that's why I aim to teach the ordinary people about the peace education particularly people in Bangladesh, Afghanistan, or various other countries like that all over the world. Thank you. Like Arifur Rahman said, HWPL is planning on expanding its educational program on the DPCW Handbook to include the general public.

 

Peace Culture Education will not only enhance citizens' understanding of international law but also shed light on steps that they need to take to create a peaceful future.

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Online Seminar on Human Rights to seek solutions to the issues of human rights

Since September of last year, HWPL has held webinars inviting people from different walks of life to seek solutions to the issues of human rights violations that have emerged during the pandemic. The webinars were held on topics such as domestic violence, women's rights, and religious minorities, and attended by over 2,300 people in 75 countries.

#PANDEMIC

HWPL is offering a peace platform where governments, local organizations, and citizens can interact and work together to resolve issues that threaten peace in everyday life. We will continue to provide the platform to create a synergy of peace among various sectors and organizations across the globe.

In line with implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16, "Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions," and Goal 17, "Partnerships for the Goals," in Mali, Africa, HWPL has had discussions with Malian government officials and civic groups since November 2020. As a result, a peace policy proposal was submitted to the Malian government in September this year.

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World Science Day for Peace and Development, 10 November

International Week of Science and Peace

The International Week of Science and Peace was first observed during 1986 as part of the observance of the International Year of Peace.

The organization of events and activities for the week was undertaken as a non-governmental initiative; the secretariat for the International Year of Peace was informed of the preparatory activities and the final summary of events that occurred during the week. The organizers sought to encourage the broadest possible international participation in the observance.

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Based on the success of the 1986 observance, the organizers continued their efforts in successive years. In recognition of the value of the annual observance, the General Assembly adopted resolution 43/61 in December 1988, which proclaims the “International Week of Science and Peace”, to take place each year during the week in which 11 November falls.

#SCIENCE

The General Assembly urged Member States and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to encourage relevant institutions, associations and individuals to sponsor events and activities related to the study and dissemination of information on the links between progress in science and technology and maintenance of peace and security;

urged Member States to promote international co-operation among scientists and required the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly as its forty-fifth session on the activities and initiatives of Member States and interested organizations in connection with the week.

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The annual observance of the International Week of Science and Peace is making an important contribution to the promotion of peace.

The Week encourages greater academic exchanges on a subject of universal importance while also generating greater awareness of the relationship of science and peace among the general public.

#PEACE

Based on observances of Science and Peace Week to date, it may be expected that participation each year will increase, contributing to greater international understanding and opportunities for co-operation in the applications of science for the promotion of peace throughout the year.

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International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict 6 November

Partnerships

EU-UN Partnership on Land and Natural Resource Conflicts

Six United Nations agencies and departments (UNEP, UNDP, UNHABITAT, PBSO, DPA and DESA), coordinated by the UN Framework Team for Preventive Action, have partnered with the European Union (EU) to help countries identify, prevent and transform tensions over natural resource as part of conflict prevention and peacebuilding programmes.

Global Research Programme on Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resources

The Environmental Law Institute (ELI), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Universities of Tokyo and McGill initiated a global research programme to collect lessons learned and good practices on managing natural resources during post-conflict peacebuilding. This four-year research project has yielded more than 150 peer-reviewed case studies by over 230 scholars, practitioners and decision-makers from 55 countries. This represents the most significant collection to date of experiences, analyses and lessons in managing natural resources to support post-conflict peacebuilding.

UN Partnership on Women and Natural Resources in Peacebuilding Settings

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equity and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) have established a partnership to collaborate on improving the understanding of the complex relationship between women and natural resources in conflict-affected settings, and make the case for pursuing gender equality, women’s empowerment and sustainable natural resource management together in support of peacebuilding. The first outcome of the collaboration is a joint policy report released on 6 November 2013.

 

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DPCW_1038 : Advancing the DPCW’s Peace Agenda in a New Normal

Advancing the DPCW’s Peace Agenda in a New Normal:

Concerted Action for Sustainable Peace

The 7th Anniversary of the September 18th HWPL World Peace Summit will be held online on 18 September 2021. Leaders from all sectors, including politics, religion, youth, education, media, civic society, gathered from around the world in Seoul, South Korea, on 18 September 2014 and promised to collaborate with HWPL to achieve sustainable peace. Since then, HWPL is hosting the HWPL World Peace Summit every 18 September to discuss ideas to achieve peace, a common goal of the global society, share the outcome of different initiatives, and present new plans. We recognize the fluid environment, where humankind faces challenges brought by a disease that threatens our coexistence and harmony as the new normal. This year’s event will present the progress made and plans for the future in efforts to advance the peace agenda amid such changing international settings.

 

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Amid the new set of global challenges such as healthcare, violent conflicts, and natural disasters, Concerted Action for Sustainable Peace will be presented at the event and will echo the pledge for peace made by the global community and HWPL in 2014 – an illustration of present and future collaborative efforts of peace messengers to pass on the legacy of peace to generations to come. This event is hosted by Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), with the support of the International Peace Youth Group (IPYG) and the International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG), two organizations that are creating a global peace network with HWPL.

 

#HWPL #IPYG #PEACE_WORLD #PEACEBUILDING #HEALTHCARE #UN #IWPG #DPCW_1038 #DPCW