Visitors: 342 Rene Wadlow The United Nations (UN) together with the governments of Sweden and Switzerland which have often led humanitarian issues in the UN system held a high-level pledging conference in Geneva on April 25, 2017 to again draw attention to the deepening humanitarian crisis in war-torn Yemen, currently the largest food security emergency […]
Visitors: 513 [themify_quote]“He who would understand the Plains must ascend the Eternal Hills, where a man’s eyes scan Infinity. Be he who would make use of understanding must descend on the Plains where Past and Future meet, and men have need of him.” — Talbut Mundy, Om-The Secret of Abbor Valley[/themify_quote] Talbot Mundy was born in […]
Visitors: 443 Rene Wadlow UNESCO is stressing global citizenship education to meet the challenges of the 21st century by developing a sense of belonging to a common humanity, sharing values and responsibilities. Global citizenship education aims to give a profound understanding that humanity will respond creatively to the challenges of our times. Global citizenship education […]
Visitors: 380 Our modern Western nationalism has an ecclesiastical tinge, for, while in one aspect it is a reversion to the idolatrous self-worship of the tribe which was the only religion known to Man before the first of the ‘higher religions’ were discovered by an oppressed internal proletariat…it is a tribalism with a difference. The primitive […]
Visitors: 233 [themify_quote] The defense of those using their conscience to uphold humanitarian international law. The Association of World Citizens calls for the re-affirmation of humanitarian international law. It is a call to the soldiers and militia members in armed conflicts to refuse orders to violate humanitarian international law by refusing to use weapons outlawed […]
Visitors: 259 [themify_quote] “Are there not such spirits among us ready to join in the noblest of all adventures— the building up of a civilization —so that the human might reflect the divine order? In the divine order there is both freedom and solidarity. It is the virtue of the soul to be free and its […]
Visitors: 377 The Bridge of Beauty and Understanding [pullquote][themify_box color=”green”] Only the bridge of Beauty will be strong enough for crossing from the bank of Darkness to the side of Light – Nicholas Roerich [/themify_box][/pullquote] Nicholas Roerich, the Russian painter, explorer, and cultural activist, stressed throughout his life the role of beauty and culture in bringing humanity […]
Visitors: 216 On 5 April 2017, the European Union and the United Nations will hold a joint conference on the future of Syria and its region. “Civil Society” is invited to participate, but it is not clear in advance if the Brussels meeting will be a “fund raising” one, in which case most non-governmental organizations […]
Visitors: 276 I believe that the One World which is emerging can come into existence only if a New Man comes into being – a man who has emerged from the archaic ties of blood and soil, and who feels himself to be a citizen of the world whose loyalty is to the human […]
Visitors: 419 The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way… It is this spiritual foundation that cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful. Viktor Frankl Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) whose birth anniversary we mark […]
Visitors: 251 Rene Wadlow is the President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation on and problem-solving in economic and social issues. [themify_hr color=’red’] On Friday 24 March 2017, the 47-member UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution without […]
Visitors: 317 Rene Wadlow is the President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation on and problem-solving in economic and social issues. [themify_hr color=”red”] On 2 March 2017, the special committee on Syria created by the UN Human Rights […]
Visitors: 252 Rene Wadlow is the President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation on and problem-solving in economic and social issues. [themify_hr color=”red”] On 2 March 2017, the special committee on Syria created by the UN Human Rights […]
Visitors: 261 Rene Wadlow is the President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation on and problem-solving in economic and social issues. [themify_hr color=’red’] “Since the hungry billion in the world community believe that we can all eat if we […]
Visitors: 213 Rene Wadlow is the President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation on and problem-solving in economic and social issues. [themify_hr color=’red’] “Since the hungry billion in the world community believe that we can all eat if we […]
Visitors: 263 René Wadlow, a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and of its Task Force on the Middle East, is president and U.N. representative (Geneva) of the Association of World Citizens and editor of Transnational Perspectives. He is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment. On 19 September 2016, the UN General Assembly […]