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Thirty seven young people from 17 countries participated in a week-long human rights training at the University of Connecticut from August 5-12 this summer. Selected from more than 300 applicants, who submitted mission statements and action plans for the work they wanted to do, these men and women plunged into workshops on poverty, hunger, health, gender issues and the environment with lively discussion. The week culminated in a visit to the United Nations for International Youth Day.
Staff of the UN and UConn, members of CHRONE, and other human rights activists, including Nancy Wrenn, who chaired the planning committee, participated as workshop leaders.
At the invitation of the University of Connecticut’s UNESCO Chair in Comparative Human Rights, Amii Omara-Otunnu, CSUN is participating in a coalition of New England organizations committed to collaboration on joint educational activities. The aim of UNESCO is to build a global culture of human rights by bridging the gap between the ideals and theories of human rights and human rights practices. Worldwide there are 55 UNESCO Chairs. The UConn program is the only one in the U.S.
Included in the roster of organizations participating are Physicians for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Citizens for Global Solutions, the World Affairs Council of Hartford, Lawyers without Borders, and several public and private colleges and universities in Connecticut. Members of the coalition are working on a website for both internal communication and outreach.
For more, go to:
www.unescochair.uconn.edu/NEcoalition.htm
Organizations
Affiliated with
the Coalition
for
a
Strong United
Nations
(descriptions are taken from
their websites)
Alliance
for Democracy
Current issues are:
election monitoring, water watch council, strategic non-violence
curriculum
The alliance is a new populist movement - not a political party - setting forth to end the domination of our economy, our government, our culture, our media and the environment by large corporations. We aim to promote true democracy in our country and help achieve a just society with a sustainable, equitable economy. We work together with other organizations, both here and abroad, who share these goals.
American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee is a practical expression of the faith of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Committed to the principles of nonviolence and justice, it seeks in its work and witness to draw on the transforming power of love, human and divine.
Baha'i Community of Cambridge
The BPAF is a tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) open-membership organization that was created in 1997 in order to promote a widespread appreciation of current social, economic, political and other issues affecting relations between Americans and peoples of African descent around the world. It seeks to mobilize all sectors of American society especially regarding U.S. foreign policy and international relations. The BPAF is based in Boston with a membership throughout New England.
Boston
Research Center
for the 21st Century
The Boston Research Center for the 21st Century is an international peace institute that envisions a worldwide network of global citizens developing cultures of peace through dialogue and understanding. We believe that the best hope for the realization of this vision is through the active cultivation of an inclusive sense of community, locally and globally.
Citizens
for Global Solutions
New England
(formerly the World Federalist
Association of New England)
CGSNE is a nonprofit organization of citizens who, since 1947 have been dedicated to the belief that the goals for which the United Nations was created - "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained" - can be achieved only if such obligations are accepted as binding.
Earth
Action
A network
of 2,200 civil society organizations in more than 160 countries, has begun
work with others to create the World Future Council of globally recognized
moral leaders who will speak for global citizen values and the long-term
well-being of the planet. The primary work of the World Future Council
will be conducted in smaller issue-oriented Action Networks. The first
Action Network will focus on children. Moe than 200 members of parliament
have indicated their interest in joining a Parliamentary Children’s
Rights Network. This group will work collaboratively with the
Parliamentary Network to develop and build support for specific policy
initiatives to fully implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child and meet the basic needs of the world’s children.
A Community Church created by the union of the Congregational and Unitarian Churches in Lincoln, First Parish in Lincoln, Faith in Action Group, is focusing this year on education about election issues and nuclear control.
First Unitarian Society in Newton
Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies
The Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies is a nonprofit think tank for research and education on ways to reduce the risk of war, minimize military spending, and foster democratic institutions.
The
Institute for Global Leadership
provides new leadership and
development models to implement the International Decade for a Culture of
Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World.
The Institute for
Resource
and Security Studies
promotes policies and
practices that enhance global human security; builds capacities and
develops policies whereby conflict-torn communities engage in cooperative
actions that promote peace and social reconstruction; works on sustainable
development; examines the environmental and social impacts of nuclear,
fossil and renewable energy systems
International
Physicians
to Prevent Nuclear War
is gearing up for a showdown at
the next formal review of the NPT at the UN in May 2005. There, they will
demand that all governments commit to launching negotiations on a
time-bound, step-by-step framework for eliminating nuclear weapons by 2020
Mass. Peace
Action
a chapter of the national grassroots peace organization, Peace
Action, is supporting
a Campaign for a New Foreign Policy, which is based on the following
principles: support human rights and democracy; reduce the threat from
weapons of mass destruction; and cooperate with the world community
Newton
Dialogues
on Peace and War
one of many community peace and
justice groups which formed after 9/11, supports security strategies
through the United Nations, and opposes militarism and unilateral,
preventive wars. This group has endorsed CSUN’s
Peace Platform
The
Peace Abbey
Each
year on United Nations Day, October 24, CSUN and friends join the friends
of the Peace Abbey in a 13-mile UN Walk from Sherborn, MA to the State
House
Soka Gakkai International (SGI)
President Ikeda’s 2004 Peace Proposal includes the strengthening and reform of the
UN; nuclear disarmament and progress toward abolition; and the expansion and enhancement of human
security. He urges that a "UN People’s Forum" be held in 2005 to consider
ways in which the UN can be strengthened and to stress the importance of fostering a global
environment in which conflict is resolved through the rule of law as a
central countermeasure to terrorism; secondly, he proposes a special session of
the UN General Assembly dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons to be
attended by heads of state and government and discussion of the formation of a
new specialized agency within the UN to deal with nuclear disarmament.
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
(UUSC)
is
supporting Earth Rights International in defending the Alien Tort Claims Act, a law which enables
U.S. multinational corporations to be held accountable for their human
rights violations, and in particular a case against Unocal.
United Nations Association
of Greater Boston
has introduced a new Human Rights Unit for their Global Classrooms curriculum
which models the United Nations in high schools.
Veterans for Peace, Inc. (VFP) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others
(a)
Toward increasing public awareness of the costs of war.
(b) To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in
the internal affairs of other nations
(c) To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear
weapons
(d) To seek justice for veterans and victims of war
(e) To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.
To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use nonviolent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.
We urge all people who share this vision to join us
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Boston Section
National Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom (WILPF)
WILPF has an office at
the UN which also works on peacebuilding and other women’s
issues
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