International Universal Health Coverage Day, 12 December

 

It is time to get progress towards health for all back on track.

The United Nations High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage, held on 21 September 2023, reaffirmed that healthy people are the foundation of healthy societies and economies, and that UHC is central to achieving all of the Sustainable Development Goals.

 

https://www.un.org/en/

And yet:

Half of the world’s population does not have access to essential health services.

An estimated 2 billion people face financial hardship due to out-of-pocket health expenses, including 344 million people living in extreme poverty.

Since the launch of the SDGs in 2015 – even before the COVID-19 pandemic – the expansion of health service coverage had stalled and financial protection had deteriorated.

The pandemic has set countries further back in their journey towards universal health coverage. It has also showed why UHC is so important.

 

#PANDEMIC #HEALTH_SERVICE #PEACE_WORLD #PEACE_WALK #HWPL #DPCW_1038 #INTERNATIONAL DAY #UN #WARP_OFFICE #IWPG #IPYG

 

 

It’s time for action.

More information can be found on the official campaign microsite: 

www.universalhealthcoverageday.org

 

 

 

DPCW_1038 : Discuss Peace Work in Medellin, Colombia

On August 7th-9th, 2023, the HWPL delegation from the Los Angeles branch attended the “She Is” Conference in Medellin, Colombia, and met with government personnel and peace advocacy, to successfully obtain DPCW signed support letters.

Among the personnel in attendance were Yazmín Colón de Cortizo, First Lady of Panama, Claudia Cabrera Tarazona, Former Mayor of Columbia Policarpa, Dr. Ruth Mitchell of ICAN, winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Diana Osorio, Head of Social Management Department of Medellin, Colombia and Dr. Johana Bermudez, Honduras Congresswoman.

 

The HWPL delegates discussed with the personnel the importance of partnering with HWPL to establish solutions for peace in Colombia, especially considering the long-standing conflicts between the government and guerilla groups and the need to instill the values of peace in the future generation.

 

https://www.hwpl.kr/language/en/

Since 1964, Colombia’s government and guerilla groups have fought for influence, which has resulted in 220,000 deaths, and more than 5 million civilians forced out of their home due to this conflict.

 

#COLOMBIA #PEACE #DPCW_1038 #GUERILLA_GROUPS #DPCW_1038

#WARP_OFFICE #IPYG #IWPG

 

The personnel expressed their support for HWPL through a discussion to implement peace education, encouraging networking with other political officials, and promising to write letters of support for the DPCW.

 

 

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2023 International Youth Peace Conference

https://reurl.cc/jv4YdZ

 

HWPL Statement on Israel-Hamas War

https://reurl.cc/MymLv4

 

HWPL International Religious Peace Academy (IRPA) Special Lectures

https://bit.ly/3Mzhrpo

 

 

Global Peace Education Conference

https://bit.ly/463CabL

 

 

“To Foster Peace in Timor-Leste”: A Unified Community Spirit in the Public Peace Art Initiative

https://bit.ly/3QkTl2E

 

 

Press Conference for the 9th Anniversary of the September 18th HWPL World Peace Summit

https://bit.ly/472w6RZ

 

 

Thousands of Volunteers United for a Global Peace Event

https://bit.ly/476EvUz

 

 

Discuss Peace Work in Medellin, Colombia

https://bit.ly/3FLH1nl

 

International Day : Human Rights Day 10 December

2023 Theme: Freedom, Equality and Justice for All

 

In the decades since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, human rights have become more recognised and more guaranteed across the globe.

 

The UDHR has since served as the foundation for an expanding system of human rights protection that today focuses also on vulnerable groups such as persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and migrants.

However, the promise of the UDHR, of dignity and equality in rights, has been under a sustained assault in recent years.

 

As the world faces challenges new and ongoing – pandemics, conflicts, exploding inequalities, morally bankrupt global financial system, racism, climate change – the values, and rights enshrined in the UDHR provide guideposts for our collective actions that do not leave anyone behind.

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#DPCW_1038 #WARP_OFFICE #IPYG #IWPG

#INTERNATIONAL_DAY #HUMAN_RIGHTS

#PEACE_WORLD #PEACE_WALK

 

The year-long Human Rights 75 initiative seeks to shift the needle of understanding and action towards greater knowledge of the universality of the UDHR and the activism associated with it.

 

https://www.un.org/en/

 

DPCW_1038 : United Generations Campaign

Intergenerational solidarity, a chance to grow together!

 

On October 7, 2023, the HWPL volunteering team conducted a campaign to raise awareness on the isolation faced by elderly people and to promote the importance of an intergenerational link.

 

This campaign was held at Place de la Bastille in Paris, France.

 

This event entitled

 

“United Generations Campaign : Intergenerational solidarity, a chance to grow together !”

 

was held during the Blue Week (national week for pensioners and the elderly) to commemorate UN International Day for Older Persons.

 

HWPL France Branch has been developing the United Generations initiative by conducting activities to foster dialogue, experience sharing, and participate in activities between different generations for a better understanding of and care between people from different ages and backgrounds. In 2023, HWPL youth volunteers have conducted more than 7 activities with young volunteers in 4 different retirement houses.

 

Through the campaign, about 80 citizens could experience various booth activities. They participated in the photo exhibition about HWPL activities in retirement houses and wrote 56 letters to isolated elderly people.

 

#HWPL #DPCW_1038 #WARP_OFFICE

#IWPG #IPYG #2023 #VOLUNTEERS #PARIS #FRANCE

 

Participants complimented these HWPL volunteering activities and 30 people decided to join the organization by becoming members of HWPL

 

One of the participants said, “This initiative reminds me when I got involved in volunteering when I was a student. I think the message of the campaign is important because we’re so caught up in the routine of our daily lives and we often forget to be human.

 

https://www.hwpl.kr/language/en

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Also, we forget that there are elderly people who are isolated and would like to receive even a little attention. Moreover, I think it’s smart to raise awareness of peace, by tackling an issue that doesn’t seem related to peace at first glance, but it draws attention to a vulnerable group and then raises awareness of the greater cause which is peace.”

 

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The letters collected through this campaign will be distributed to elderly people with no close relatives or who can’t often spend time with their family.

 

To combat the isolation and develop this intergenerational link, the elderly people will also have the opportunity to reply to the letters.

 

International Day of Banks 4 December

The Principles for Responsible Banking

 

 

The Principles provide the framework for a sustainable banking system and help the industry to demonstrate how it makes a positive contribution to society.

They embed sustainability at the strategic, portfolio and transactional levels, and across all business areas. 

In the year since the launch of the framework, the signatories to the Principles for Responsible Banking grew from 130 to more than 190 banks representing more than a third of the global banking industry and around 1.6 billion customers worldwide.

 

To celebrate the first anniversary of the launch of the Principles for Responsible Banking, signatories and civil society have shared their thoughts and experiences one year on!

 

https://www.un.org/en/

 

 

#HWPL #BANKING #IWPG #WARP_OFFICE #DPCW_1038 #UN #PEACE_WORLD #PEACE #EDUCATION 

DPCW_1038 : Global Peace Education Conference

Since 2017, HWPL has been collaborating with education ministries and institutions to provide peace education to children and young adults. HWPL has been pouring in efforts to promote institutionalizing peace to ensure that peace takes firm roots.

In particular, the Global Peace Education Conference of the 9th Anniversary of the September 18th HWPL World Peace Summit held in Incheon, South Korea, served as an opportunity to discuss sustainable and effective means to spread a culture of peace and firmly establish peace.

 

To transit toward peace from today’s era smeared by war, what should we show and teach to the younger generation?

 

HWPL proposes the direction for peace education with peace-related materials that will help foster peace.

Peace education is a crucial process to institutionalize peace and help with its settlement.

 

That is why each government should be responsible for promoting the institutionalization of peace by implementing a system to effectively implement peace education.

 

The first part of the conference presented the direction in which the education sector should move forward to promote the institutionalization of peace.

 

https://www.hwpl.kr/language/en/

 

 

#HWPL #IPYG #IWPG #WARP_OFFICE #DPCW_1038 #UN #PEACE_WORLD #PEACE #EDUATION 

 

International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 3 December

The United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy

When launching the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy in June 2019, the Secretary-General stated that the United Nations should lead by example and raise the Organization’s standards and performance on disability inclusion—across all pillars of work, from headquarters to the field.  

The United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy provides the foundation for sustainable and transformative progress on disability inclusion through all pillars of the work of the United Nations. Through the Strategy, the United Nations system reaffirms that the full and complete realization of the human rights of all persons with disabilities is an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.

 

In August 2023, the Secretary-General submitted his fourth report on steps taken by the UN system to implement the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy in 2022.

 https://www.un.org/en/

 

 

#HWPL #DISABILITIES #INTERNATIONAL_DAY #WARP_OFFICE #DPCW_1038 #UN #PEACE_WORLD #PEACE #EDUCATION