INTERNATIONAL DAY : World Health Day 2022

In the midst of a pandemic, a polluted planet, increasing diseases like cancer, asthma, heart disease, on World Health Day 2022, WHO will focus global attention on urgent actions needed to keep humans and the planet healthy and foster a movement to create societies focused on well-being.   

Our political, social and commercial decisions are driving the climate and health crisis.

Over 90% of people breathe unhealthy air resulting from burning of fossil fuels.

A heating world is seeing mosquitos spread diseases farther and faster than ever before. Extreme weather events, land degradation and water scarcity are displacing people and affecting their health. Pollution and plastics are found at the bottom of our deepest oceans, the highest mountains, and have made their way into our food chain.

Systems that produce highly processed, unhealthy foods and beverages are driving a wave of obesity, increasing cancer and heart disease while generating a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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WHO estimates that more than 13 million deaths around the world each year are due to avoidable environmental causes. This includes the climate crisis which is the single biggest health threat facing humanity.

The climate crisis is also a health crisis.

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Are we able to reimagine a world where clean air, water and food are available to all?

Where economies are focused on health and well-being?

Where cities are liveable and people have control over their health and the health of the planet?

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DPCW_1038 : Institutional Peace to Counteract the Threats of Global Conflicts is Examined

In this present era where the safety of individual lives is constantly threatened by widespread conflicts, peace-building is demanded in order to develop a system that promotes the values, norms, and culture of peace for all countries, communities, and individuals. All of these criteria are based on the shared principles of coexistence and interdependence of the global community.

‘HWPL’s 6th Annual Commemoration of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW)’ was held online on 14 March 2022 with about 4,000 participants in 134 countries. The theme of this event was titled, Institutionalizing Peace: Building a Legal Foundation for Sustainable Peace.

HWPL has endorsed the combined efforts of governments and civil society that lead to the institutionalization of peace in each society. The DPCW proclaimed in 2016 has provided a guide to citizen-led peace advocacy in line with international organizations including the UN, the African Union (AU), and the EU that have all stressed normative guidance as a standard for substantial conflict resolution with the participation of women and youth.

As for the need to “build a legal foundation for sustainable peace,” Dr. Kamal Hossain, the President of International Law Association (ILA) Bangladesh Branch said, “The precondition for achieving peace is securing peoples’ inalienable rights, which include equality before the law, equal protection of the law, non-discrimination, freedom to associate, freedom to assemble, and freedom to express.”

In addition, Ms. Anna Cervenakova, a member of HWPL International Law Peace Committee, mentioned “In the world’s ongoing crisis, governments question themselves, what kind of action would be the best action to take in order to overcome the emergency crisis. The need for human development, by overcoming the public health emergency, climate change, economic decline, and restrictions on human rights, brings us to the point of how these burdens are solved by the institutions of the governments. Much of the burden of the work is, therefore, on the side of the governments, so it is important to note what are the priorities in their institutional agenda.”

 

As one of the speakers, Rommel Santos Diaz of President of the Dominican Federalist Foundation said that government offices including the Senate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Attorney General’s Office in the Dominican Republic have been working with NGOs for the purpose of the state’s decision-making for public policies on citizen security and human rights based on the DPCW.

Responding to prevalent threats from religious conflicts, Shafiek Nolan, Imam of Westridge Mosque expressed, “The DPCW emphasizes the importance of peace between religions and the cessation of religious conflict. The monthly scripture dialogue hosted by HWPL particularly aims to create a platform to break down misunderstandings of religious scripture and practices, mirroring the values expressed in the DPCW.”

Chairman Man Hee Lee of HWPL said that wars and conflicts continue to occur since “wars can be triggered if it is allegedly necessary according to the current international law, which is why this cannot put an end to war.” He highlighted that all members of the global village need to be united as one as “messengers of peace” to “certainly create a thing (international law for peace) that can bring about peace.”

The DPCW presents principles of peace to be promoted by the international society such as prohibiting the use of force, fostering religious freedom, and civic participation to spread a culture of peace. It highlights that sustainable peace can be achieved through all members of the global society by identifying not only nation-states, but also international organizations and all citizens as the main actors in building peace.

Meanwhile, on February 28, HWPL issued a statement on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that includes refugee protection and global youth solidarity against war and is delivering it to 192 countries. For the full text of the DPCW or Statement Regarding Russia and Ukraine, you may visit: www.hwpl.kr

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DPCW_1038 : 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.

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.

 

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.

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World Autism Awareness Day 2 April

Inclusive Quality Education for All

Virtual Event: Friday, 8 April 2022, 10:00 - 11:15 a.m. EST

Over the past decade, major progress has been made towards increasing access to education generally, as well as for persons with autism specifically.

However, in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, a majority of countries announced the temporary closure of schools, impacting more than 90 per cent of students worldwide.

The disruption in learning caused by the pandemic has reversed years of progress and has exacerbated inequalities in education.

Many students with autism have been especially hard hit and studies show that they have been disproportionately affected by disruptions to routines, as well as services and supports that they rely on.

Sustainable Development Goal 4 – Quality Education

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The 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by world leaders at the United Nations in 2015 provide a blueprint for addressing the major challenges facing the world, including inequality.

Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) focuses on ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, as the foundation for improving people’s lives and reducing inequalities.

 

The specific targets for SDG 4 refer to the need to ensure “equal access to all levels of education and vocational training” for persons with disabilities and building and upgrading education facilities that are disability sensitive and that provide “inclusive and effective learning environments for all.”

In this respect, the SDGs echo the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Article 24 of the Convention recognizes that persons with disabilities have the right to inclusive, quality education on an equal basis with others and that reasonable accommodation of the individual’s requirements should be provided.

The 2022 World Autism Awareness Day observance

This year‘s observance will address inclusive education in the context of SDG 4 - the promise and reality - through a virtual event that will include a moderated panel discussion, along with brief presentations by self-advocates, educators and other experts.

The theme of inclusive education is intrinsically linked with the focus of last year’s WAAD observance, “Inclusion in the Workplace”. Panelists in last year’s event emphasized how crucial it is to foster inclusive quality education for people on the autism spectrum so that they can fulfill their potential and achieve sustainable success in the labour market. In this respect, inclusive education is the key to the transformative promise of the Sustainable Development Goals, to LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND.

The event is organized by the UN Department of Global Communications and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, with the support of civil society partners including the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, the Global Autism Project and the Specialisterne Foundation.

 

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INTERNATIONAL DAY : Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery

The International Day of

Remembrance of the

Victims of Slavery

and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 62/122 that established the Outreach Programme on the transatlantic slave trade and slavery, also designated 25 March as the annual International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

The Day is observed with ceremonies and activities at United Nations Headquarters in New York and at United Nations offices around the world.

The Ark of Return is a powerful reminder of the tragic legacy of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.

An initiative of the Caribbean Community and the African Union, it serves as an opportunity for reflection on the more than 18 million men, women and children that were enslaved and transported in harsh conditions to the Americas.

Years ago, I visited Goree Island in Senegal, which was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast from the 15th to the 19th century.

I saw the small spaces, imagining the crowded rooms where the enslaved persons were packed.

I will never forget the feeling of sorrow and distress thinking on those who went through that very small door overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. A point of no return.

The Ark of Return, as Goree Island, seeks to remind us of the brutality of slavery and the slave trade.

Slavery was not only a dreadful individual ordeal, but a cultural trauma whereby a group of people were subjected to such inhuman pain and torture that it dehumanized their existence, their group identity, values, feelings, and their cultural worldview.

The theme of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade this year is

“Stories of Courage: Resistance to Slavery and Unity against Racism”.

It is important to learn from history and listen to the stories of those who were stolen from their homeland, children who were snatched away from their families, daughters who were raped, sons who were sold, fathers who were emasculated and mothers who were tortured till they dropped dead.

We must discuss the legacy of slavery, especially in the marginalization of persons of African descent, who are still denied justice and equality. We must stand in solidarity, united against these inequalities. This dark chapter of our history should never be whitewashed.

Let us raise our voices as we continue to fight against racism and prejudice around the world.

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DPCW_1038:Institutional Peace to Counteract the Threats of Global Conflicts is Examined

In the present era where the safety of individual lives is constantly threatened by widespread conflicts, peacebuilding is currently demanded to develop into a system that promotes the values, norms, and culture of peace for all countries, communities and, individuals, based on the shared principles of coexistence and interdependence of the global community.

'HWPL's 6th Annual Commemoration of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW)' was held online on 14 March 2022 with over 5,000 participants, under the theme, Institutionalizing Peace: Building a Legal Foundation for Sustainable Peace.

An UN-affiliated NGO Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), has endorsed combined efforts of governments and civil society efforts that lead to the institutionalization of peace in each society. Its DPCW proclaimed in 2016 has provided a guide to citizen-led peace advocacy, in line with international organizations including the UN, the African Union (AU), and the EU that have stressed normative guidance as a standard for substantial conflict resolution with the participation of women and youth.

 

As for the need to "build a legal foundation for sustainable peace," Dr. Kamal Hossain, the President of International Law Association (ILA) Bangladesh Branch said, "The precondition for achieving peace is securing peoples’ inalienable rights, which include equality before the law, equal protection of the law, non-discrimination, freedom to associate, freedom to assemble, and freedom to express."

In addition, Ms. Anna Cervenakova, a member of HWPL International Law Peace Committee, mentioned "In the world’s ongoing crisis, governments question themselves, what kind of action would be the best action to take in order to overcome the emergency crisis. 

The need for human development, by overcoming the public health emergency, climate change, economic decline, restrictions on human rights, brings us to the point of how these burdens are solved by the institutions of the governments.

Much of the burdens of the work is, therefore, on the side of the governments, so it is important what are the priorities in their institutional agenda."

As one of the speakers, Prof. Rommel Santos Diaz of international law at the Universidad INCE said that government offices including the Senate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Attorney General’s Office in the Dominican Republic have been working with NGOs for the purpose of the “state’s decision-making for public policies on citizen security and human rights” based on the DPCW.

Responding to prevalent threats from religious conflicts, Imam Moulana Shafiek Nolan in Westridge of South Africa expressed,

 "(T)he DPCW emphasises the importance of peace between religions and the cessation of religious conflict. The monthly scripture dialogue hosted by HWPL particularly aims to create a platform to break down misunderstandings of religious scripture and practices, mirroring the values expressed in the DPCW."

Chairman Man Hee Lee of HWPL said that wars and conflicts continue to occur since “wars can be triggered if it is allegedly necessary according to the current international law, which is why this cannot put an end to war.” He highlighted that all members of the global village need to be united as one as “messengers of peace” to “certainly create a thing (international law for peace) that can bring about peace.”

On February 28, HWPL issued a statement on Russia's invasion of Ukraine that includes refugee protection and global youth solidarity against war and is delivering it to 192 countries. The DPCW presents principles of peace to be promoted by the international society such as prohibiting the use of force, fostering religious freedom, and civic participation to spread a culture of peace. It highlights that sustainable peace can be achieved through all members of the global society by identifying not only nation-states but also international organizations and all citizens as the main actors in building peace.

For the full text of the DPCW or Statement Regarding Russia and Ukraine, you may visit : www.hwpl.kr

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HWPL's 6th Annual Commemoration of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War

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HWPL’s 6th Annual Commemoration of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW) will be held online on 14 March 2022. At this year’s commemoration, under the theme, Institutionalizing Peace: Building a Legal Foundation for Sustainable Peace, HWPL spotlights institutionalization as a foundation to make peace take root and develop.

Since the proclamation of the DPCW, the citizen-led peace project Legislate Peace captured HWPL’s efforts to expand and strengthen the global alliance for peace. Its efforts include initiatives to sew peace into the social fabric as a universally shared culture and norm. While working toward the universalization of peace values, there have been discussions regarding the need to institutionalize peace. Delving into the topic, HWPL sets out to draw the blueprint for peace as an institution, which will serve as the cornerstone for the era of peace.

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HWPL's 6th Annual Commemoration of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War

Institutionalizing Peace: Building a Legal Foundation for Sustainable Peace

· Date : Mar. 14th, 2022. 8:00 PM(GMT+9)

· Replay : https://bit.ly/6thDPCW_EN

· Homepage : https://bit.ly/en6th314DPCW

 

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2. Background

International organizations such as the UN, the African Union (AU), and the EU have recently stressed normative guidance as a standard to set the course for substantial conflict resolution and peace. Notably, it is recommended that women and youth participate in discussions on peace so that the concerns of the citizens afflicted by conflict are not overlooked. The IGOs also underscore the constructive intervention of NGOs that can contribute their expertise and experience for peace issues, the inclusion of human rights policies, and the democratic process in implementing peace-related policies.

The UN and the AU have recognized the importance of ensuring inclusivity in peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction by ensuring the participation of women and youth, with the aim of achieving sustainable peace. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) emphasized the importance of international efforts to select a discussion channel that includes the UN, nation-states, and all other stakeholders with the goal of resolving national crises of widespread conflict and establishing sustainable peace and democracy. More specifically, the EU started the Global Europe thematic programme on Peace, Stability and Conflict Prevention to enhance peace and safety capabilities of conflict-stricken regions. The diverse participation of actors, their cooperation, solidarity, and harmony for peace form a comprehensive approach to conflict resolution and prevention, which shows an evolutionary process that stimulates the institutional reinforcement for systemic peacebuilding through a normative framework.

Based on the DPCW, participation in peace activities and peace coalitions from around the world illustrate the collective will of the global citizens for peace. In this regard, the global alliance for peace activities led by HWPL fully aligns with the recommendations of the international community, including the UN.

At the same time, it also leaves the challenge of institutionalization that establishes peace as a system, the norm, and custom through cooperation with countries and organizations that reflect the citizens’ collective will to let peace take root in nations and regions. In other words, in the process of establishing peace as the law applicable to all individuals and a social consensus, the key is the development of the institution, a mechanism that will shed the light of peace on everyone fairly and generously.

It also points to the need for efforts to strengthen and complement current international law and efforts in societies to internalize the institution of peace through democratic and legal processes, all of which must go hand in hand at the international, national, and local levels. The international community is the collective action that involves all stakeholders with the capability and potential for fulfilling sustainable peace. Such collective action is founded on the collective spirit and collective will of citizens. Since the DPCW was proclaimed in 2016, HWPL has been forging a citizens’ alliance for peace under the title, Legislate Peace, as part of its efforts for the institutionalization of peace and international law for peace.

 

3. Content and Outcome

Proclaimed on 14 March 2016 at 3:14 p.m., the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW) proposes ten articles and 38 clauses that embody principles that strengthen the foundation for the prevention and resolution of the globally rampant conflicts. Violent conflicts today are traced back to sources beyond state boundaries, and the most frequent types are conflicts caused by non-state actors. This means the threat to individual lives, social stability, national constitution, and even the security of human society has become more common and personalized. Therefore, DPCW from Articles 1 to 7 reaffirms the conventional international law and norms for peace order that run current in the international community, including friendly relations, use of force, conflict resolution by international law. At the same time, it proposes actions such as repurposing weapons and related facilities to instruments and equipment that serve the daily lives of citizens and obligating nation-states to request and accept the international courts’ rulings based on international law, an innovative approach to complement the current international legal system.

In addition, in Articles 8 to 10, the DPCW suggests an evolved approach to peaceful resolution in response to evolved conflicts. It covers engaging cooperation, solidarity, and unity across IGOs, nation-states, and the citizens’ that form these actors to deal with non-state actors emerging as growing causes of conflict. Articles 8 to 10 highlight the peace mechanism in response to new types of conflict. They include giving penalizing roles to punish entities that destroy social order by inflicting violence or human rights abuse under the name of religious belief or ethnical identity and thereby threaten international stability and establishing and spreading a culture of peace through activities to promote peace and build solidarity among peace organizations, education that foster mutual respect and understanding, and ensuring freedom of the press to reflect diverse voices across societies.

The spirit of the DPCW recognizes citizens as the main actor of peacebuilding and points to a transition from the rule of power to the governing by law for harmony, fairness, and justice. In this regard, this year’s commemoration of the DPCW will view international law, religion, education, and the youth in light of the prospect of setting legal foundations to institutionalize peace and present cases from numerous social arenas.

Furthermore, by charting the direction for future civic peace campaigns, the event will contribute to devising concrete plans to form cooperative public-private relations toward peace as a core value shared by all countries and societies.