Posted in Enviroment, Life, UN, Youth, Youth participation, tagged Climate Change on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
What comes into your mind when you hear the word “Bali”? A warm and fancy tourist place in Indonesia with sand beaches and clear water; the terrible bombings in October 2002 leaving 202 people dead; or climate change? Well, non of the answers would be wrong, but this is blog is about climate change. In [...]
Posted in Africa, Church, Justice, UN, Youth, Youth participation on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
What does youth unemployment has to do with peace building? Youth unemployment is, I suppose, an issue that occurs everywhere in the world, in the North and in the South, the East and the West, in rich countries and in poor countries alike. I personally read about that in my home country’s domestic news and [...]
Posted in Enviroment, UN, tagged Climate Change, Disease, UN, water, WHO, world health day on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Review the themes of World Health Day in the past years:
2007: International health security; 2006: Working together for health; 2005: Make every mother and child count; 2004: Road Safety……
This year 2008, the theme - Climate Change.
Honestly, that is quite a surprising theme for me to think about World Health Day. But, when I looked at what WHO director-general [...]
Posted in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America/Carribean, Middle East, North America, Poverty, Poverty/Affluence, UN, Youth, Youth participation on April 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, Francis and I went to the Presentation of the World Youth Report 2007. For the main website of LWF (www.lutheranworld.org) I put together a formal report. Here is it:
“There has never been a generation that was more likely to volunteer and be involved in community causes than this one,” said Patience W. Stephens, the [...]
Posted in Ecumenism, Enviroment, UN, tagged UN, water, world water day on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today marks the UN World Water Day 2008 while 1.2 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water.
The UN estimates that half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water-borne diseases. As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon says, ‘When you look at the health and development challenges faced by the poorest [...]
Posted in Africa, Church, Enviroment, LWF, UN, Youth, Youth participation on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon had a short visit to Ecumenical Center today evening. He also attended a prayer service with us. There was a choir from Korean Church in Geneva singing beautiful hymns in Korean.
One of the issues the UN chief particularly highlighted was climate change. He said the problem will only be resolved through a global [...]
Posted in Africa, Asia/Pacific, HIV/Aids, Latin America/Carribean, Life, UN, Youth, Youth participation, tagged advocacy, AIDS, international meetings, Mexico, Youth, Youth participation on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As the first International AIDS Conference (IAC) ever held in Latin America, the XVII Mexico International AIDS Conference, “AIDS 2008″ will bring together 25,000 researchers, decision-makers, and advocates from around the world to collaborate and share in an effort to strengthen our global responses to HIV and [...]
Posted in Africa, LWF, UN, Youth, tagged female genital cutting, female genital mutilation, fgc, fgm on February 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Oumou Toure from Guinea did not want her two year old daughter Fanta to suffer the same treatment she experienced herself at the age of 19: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), also known as Female Genital Cutting (FGC). For several months she was facing deportation from Canada to her home country Guinea. But finally in July [...]
Posted in Faith, Justice, Life, UN, tagged interfaith, United Nations, women on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This post is by Christian Albers, a vicar from Germany who is interning at the Lutheran Office for World Community at the United Nations in New York.
When Daisy Khan was introduced today at the Faith and Feminism Brown Bag Lunch sponsored by the Sister Fund in New York City, the Muslim woman was [...]
Posted in Europe, Justice, LWF, UN on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The status of Kosovo, a Southern province of Serbia, has been in limbo for almost a decade. After Serbia began committing crimes against humanity in Kosovo against ethnic Albanians, a brief war in 1999, led by NATO, knocked Serb forces out of Kosovo for good. Since then, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has overseen the governance and security of the province.
In [...]
