Citizens of the World call for the release of Greek scholar and aid worker among the Kalasha of Pakistan held by Taliban-related insurgents in the Nuristan area of Afghanistan
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In a statement prepared for the UN Forum on Minority Issues, 12-13 November 2009, in Geneva, Switzerland, Rene Wadlow, Chief Representative of the Association of World Citizens to the UN, Geneva, called the assembled representatives of Governments, minority associations, and non-governmental organizations to action…
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Added by Rene Wadlow on November 9, 2009 at 2:29pm —
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Women, Universal Responsibility and the Healing of Nations
Rene Wadlow*
We should begin to develop from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility: a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home. The Dalai Lama
On 31 October 2002, the UN Security Council adopted unanimously Resolution 1325 urging “Member States to ensure increased representation of women at all decision-m…
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Added by Rene Wadlow on October 24, 2009 at 6:54am —
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The United Nations as One Mind
Rene Wadlow*
Those who observe world events may perceive something higher than human logic at work
Dag Hammarshjold has written that the United Nations was “the beginning of an organic process through which the diversity of peoples and their governments are struggling to find common ground upon which they can live together in the one world which has been thrust upon us before we were ready.”
Basically, the function of the UN is to create consensus (being of one…
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Added by Rene Wadlow on October 21, 2009 at 3:21pm —
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16 October: World Food Day
A Citizens’ of the World Focus
Rene Wadlow*
16 October is the UN-designated World Food Day, the date chosen being the anniversary of the creation of the FAO in 1945 with the aim, as stated in its Constitution of “contributing towards an expanding world economy and ensuring humanity’s freedom from hunger.” Freedom from hunger is not simply a technical matter to be solved with better seeds, fertilisers, cultivation practices and marketing. To achieve freedom from hu…
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Added by Rene Wadlow on October 8, 2009 at 9:36am —
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David Rosen
The Tao of Jung : The Way of Integrity
(New York: Arkana-Penguin, 1997, 197pp.) (Book)
Carl G. Jung (1875-1961) was one of those who dealt most directly with the passage of the Piscean Period to the Age of Aquarius, especially in his book Aion. He analyses astrological imagery embodied in Zodiacal ages in order to deal with the psychological problems of this period of transition. The astrological sign of Pisces is often represented as two fish – one light, the other dark in color –…
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Added by Rene Wadlow on August 31, 2009 at 9:03am —
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Let us then try what love will do
An analysis of Pitirim Sorokin’s The Ways and Power of Love
(Boston: The Beacon Press, 1954, 552 pp.)
New edition: Templeton Press 2002
Rene Wadlow
A good end cannot sanctify evil means, nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it…Let us then try what Love will do…Force may subdue but Love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude
Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968) was concerned, especially in the period after the S…
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Added by Rene Wadlow on August 24, 2009 at 10:32am —
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The Day of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
Rene Wadlow*
While both humanization and dehumanization are real alternatives, only the first is man’s vocation. This vocation is constantly negated. It is thewarted by injustice, exploitation, oppression, and the violence of the oppressors; it is affirmed by the yearning of the oppressed for freedom and justice, and by their struggle to recover their lost humanity. Paulo Freire
The United Nations General Assembly has set 9 August as the International D…
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Added by Rene Wadlow on August 5, 2009 at 12:18pm —
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Peacebuilding : Cooperation, Coordination, and Holistic Vision
Rene Wadlow*
“From the outset of my mandate” said in 1993 then Secretary General of the UN Boutros Boutros-Ghali “I have been convinced that the structure of the Organization must mirror, as closely as possible, the tasks it is assigned to undertake. An institution must reflect
the objectives it pursues…The UN therefore faces the difficult task of relating our aims to our means, of updating and reforming institutions set up at diff…
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Added by Rene Wadlow on August 1, 2009 at 6:20am —
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Sri Lanka Truce
By: Rene Wadlow Posted on: 4/14/2009
Kuan Yin : She who harkens to the cries of the world
Rene Wadlow*
Wise in using skilful means
In every corner of the world
She manifests her countless forms.
Sri Lanka Truce.
Over the past several months, there have been calls to the Sri Lankan government and to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for a cease fire to allow the evacuation of civilians caught between the two opposing armed forces. The Secretary General of…
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Added by Rene Wadlow on April 15, 2009 at 12:17pm —
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The Goddess of March
Rene Wadlow *
Be ever watchful, wanderer, for the eyes that gaze into yours at the bend of the road may be those of the goddess herself. Oracle at Delphi
March 8 is the International Day of Women and is placed under the sign of the goddess of the month of March — Minerva. Minerva derives her name from the Latin mens (mind), and so she has a special relation to teachers and artists, especially players of a flute. Tradition has it that Minerva is a transformation of an…
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Added by Rene Wadlow on March 5, 2009 at 2:23pm —
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