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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
2013
The
2013 International Day of Peace is on Saturday, September 21; and special
activities and celebrations will take place all across the world over the 2013
Peace Day Weekend, including festivals, concerts, a global Peace Wave with
moments of silence at noon in every time zone, and much more.
In
1981, the United Nations General Assembly, by unanimous vote, adopted
Resolution 36/67 establishing the International Day of Peace (IDP) which stated
in part,
to devote a specific time to concentrate the efforts of the United
Nations and its Member States, as well as the whole of humankind, to promoting
the ideals of peace and to giving positive evidence of their commitment to
peace in all viable ways. The first Peace Day was celebrated in September 1982
on the opening day of the General Assembly.
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THE HUMAN RIGHT TO PEACE - Advocacy in Process at the UN
http://www.aedidh.org/?q=node/604
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WOMEN - UNTAPPED SOURCE OF PEACE
Untappped source of peace,
The only real hope
Is to draw upon the collective wisdom of women.
Those with direct experience of the cost of war:
The life of child, grandchild, sibling, spouse.
The loss of limb or mind of someone near and dear,
The loss of laughter, the pervasiveness of fear,
The loss of hope for the future.
Untapped souce of peace,
Those who have known domestic violence
Seen the effect of bullying on sons
Seen daughters become silent
Seen light go out in their eyes
The loss of innocence,
in an unsafe world.
the message delivered
that they don't matter.
Untapped source of peace,
Women with empathy
who live in a world apart:
are safe, loved, and fortunate.
yet can imagine
being helpless, beaten and raped
Then forced to bear a child
conceived in violence.
Women who know in their hearts
That what happens to any woman
anywhere
could happen to them.
Untapped source of peace
Women who see loved ones filled with vengeance and hate,
Hyper-vigiliant, fear-ridden, or afraid to sleep
Because of the nighmares.
Husbands, brothers, sons and now daughers
Home from wars
Bearing little resemblance to who they could have been
In a peaceful world.
Untapped source of peace
Women in circles,
Women connecting,
Women together
Bringing the sacred feminine,
Maternal instinct, sister archetype
Mother power
Into the world.
By Jean Shinoda Bolen
Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World