Ming H. Chong, a member of the Baha’i community of Singapore and the Bahá’í International Community’s delegate to the UN Commission for Social Development delivered an oral intervention on the processes of collective deliberation–consultation.
The 48th session of the Commission is focusing on the priority theme of social integration and the examination of policies aimed as achieving a society for all. The topic consultation serves as the basis for collective decision-making in over 180 Bahá’í communities around the world.
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A short UNU podcast focusing on the rapid development of information communications technology (ICT) in Africa. Filmed during the 2008 TICAD IV summit in Yokohama, the podcast features interviews with key UNU academics and several high-level delegates including Tsuneo Kurokawa (JICA), Francisco Komlavi Seddoh and Calestous Juma.
www.unu.edu/africa
Creative commons Music by Flux and Vega, (discoskonfort.com)
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During the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, representatives from countries across the globe met to discuss development problems plaguing the human race. As a direct result of their discussions, the Millennium Declaration was drafted and approved by 189 nations and 147 state government leaders. It was from this declaration that the eight Millennium Development Goals emerged, aiming to make immense progress on humanitarian
issues facing our world.
• Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
• Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
• Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
• Goal 5: Improve maternal health
• Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
• Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
The center of this project was Goal 4 – reducing child mortality. By the year 2015, the Millennium Campaign seeks to reduce by two-thirds the under-five child mortality rate.
Currently, about 26,000 children under five die each day, mostly from
preventable causes.
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The DPI/NGO Conference is the main NGO event of the year at the United Nations. This years conference is organized by a partnership of the U.N. Department of Public Information in cooperation with the DPI/NGO Executive Committee, the Government of Mexico, and the U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs. For the second time in its six-decade history, the Conference is held outside the United Nations New York Headquarters.
Official Website of the Conference
http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/conference/
Mexicos United Nations Information Centre
http://www.cinu.org.mx/
Mexican NGO Focal Group
informacion.62dpi@gmail.com
Mexicos Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://participacionsocial.sre.gob.mx/
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The DPI/NGO Conference is the main NGO event of the year at the United Nations. This years conference is organized by a partnership of the U.N. Department of Public Information in cooperation with the DPI/NGO Executive Committee, the Government of Mexico, and the U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs. For the second time in its six-decade history, the Conference is held outside the United Nations New York Headquarters.
Official Website of the Conference
http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/conference/
Mexicos United Nations Information Centre
http://www.cinu.org.mx/
Mexican NGO Focal Group
informacion.62dpi@gmail.com
Mexicos Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://participacionsocial.sre.gob.mx/
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Widespread poverty and a lack of functioning infrastructure present formidable challenges to Mozambique on its path to sustainable development. The country emerged from nearly 500 years of colonial rule and plunged straight into a devastating civil war that debilitated much of the infrastructure and undermined development efforts. This short video presents an overview of the UN Capital Development Fund’s work to support development efforts in Mozambique, working from the bottom up and top down to empower local authorities to make their own decisions and set their own priorities. Filmed, edited and produced by Adam Rogers, UNCDF Head of Communications and Public Information.
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Widespread poverty and a lack of functioning infrastructure present formidable challenges to Mozambique on its path to sustainable development. The country emerged from nearly 500 years of colonial rule and plunged straight into a devastating civil war that debilitated much of the infrastructure and undermined development efforts. This short video presents an overview of the UN Capital Development Fund’s work to support development efforts in Mozambique, working from the bottom up and top down to empower local authorities to make their own decisions and set their own priorities. Filmed, edited and produced by Adam Rogers, UNCDF Head of Communications and Public Information.
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Even though YT has again shredded my video into blurriness,these old photos deserved to be seen outside the Library of Congress,I
feel.
This month I saw a YT partner perpetuating stereotypes of North American Indigenous Peoples.I hope this can help at least one person shed a wrong notion.
The language spoken in the video is Lushootseed,provided as an example so that people can understand how the White settlers got Chief Si?al/Seattle’s name,and many other Native words wrong.
Another audio example can be found at:
Vi Hilbert interview
http://www.historylink.org/video/sound/HilbertSeattle.wma
Lushootseed is the Native American Language indigenous to the Seattle area. It belongs to the Salishan language family, whose domain extends from the Pacific coast eastward to western Montana and from British Columbia southward to Oregon.
http://nuuchahnulth.org/language/language.html (quicktime player needed)
On 13 September 2007, the UN passed its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
While the term “indigenous” is not defined, its 46 articles affirm the right to self-determination including the pursuits of economic, social and cultural development (Article 3). Other rights include:
* Maintaining distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions while participating in those of the state (Article 5),
* Not being forcibly assimilated (Article 8,
* Revitalizing and developing their language and educate in their language (Articles 13-14),
* Redress for past injustices (Article 28),
* Access across international borders (Article 36), and
* Financial and technical assistance from the state to achieve these rights (Article 39)
With Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States voting against, and 11 countries abstaining, the Declaration passed with 144 countries in favor.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~`WASHINGTON,D.C, Sept. 20, 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~~Washington State’s Lummi Indian Nation presented two totem poles carved out of red cedar trees older than the United States to the Pentagon Sept. 19 as a gesture of unity and support to the families of the 184 people who died there in the Sept. 11, 2001 attack.
The Liberty and Freedom totem poles with the Sovereignty crossbar placed across them are the “sacredness of love joining us together,” said Jewell “Praying Wolf” James, councilman and master carver of the Lummi Nation. The Lummi presented the poles to the Pentagon in a Sept. 19 ceremony to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001 attack. Photo by Rudi Williams
“The totem poles are a symbol of something that all of us have within us,” said Jewell “Praying Wolf” James, a councilman and master carver of the Lummi Nation. “We have the power to heal, the power to love each other, the power to unite — that’s what the symbol is about.
“The totem pole isn’t a sacred thing, it’s the sacredness of love joining us together,” said James, who wore a coned straw hat over long, black, braided hair and a black vest with a shadowy gray wolf’s head on the back.
Praying Wolf James, who introduced all of the totem pole carvers, said, “I’m proud of the Lummi Nation for believing that the four colors on these poles red, white, black and yellow reflect the four races of America. I think America is beautiful because we’re composed of all four races and we believe in liberty and freedom — the freedom to chose our own leadership and remove them, (and) the liberty to practice our own native beliefs or our own form of organized religion.”
He noted that more than 80 people helped carve, paint and clean up, and about four dozen Indian nations across the country helped take the poles to the three sites and added their prayers.
None of the photos here were taken from the University of Washington collection,though they have an excellent online library.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/native.html
Many of Edward Curtis&Asahel Curtis’ photos can be found copyright free at the Library of Congress website.
http://www.nalacircle.org/peacepoles.htm
Nisga’a tribe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfxlQZDYVlU
Makah Paddle to Lummi 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NlHnXg3sg8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gx1JAGyKC8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmmxKzS19Z8&feature=related
Tulalip Salmon Days,Lummi invite tribe to canoe journey,pow wow dancers,hoop dancer,Puyallup Tribe honors veterans
First Nations’ canoes
Samish Family&canoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_tOqwJLvmU
S’Klallam enter Lummi Potlatch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU7q_ti3c-U
Kwakiutl Red Cedar Ceremony Dances
Haida,Tlingit,Tsimshian,Kwakiutl,Cowichan,Tulalip,
Duwamish,Stillaguamish,Skokomish,Nootka,Sauk-Siattle,
S’Klallam,Squaxin Island
This video is dedicated to the memory of my friend Eleanor Little field,whose tribal name I could never say right.RIP
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Even though YT has again shredded my video into blurriness,these old photos deserved to be seen outside the Library of Congress,I
feel.
This month I saw a YT partner perpetuating stereotypes of North American Indigenous Peoples.I hope this can help at least one person shed a wrong notion.
The language spoken in the video is Lushootseed,provided as an example so that people can understand how the White settlers got Chief Si?al/Seattle’s name,and many other Native words wrong.
Another audio example can be found at:
Vi Hilbert interview
http://www.historylink.org/video/sound/HilbertSeattle.wma
Lushootseed is the Native American Language indigenous to the Seattle area. It belongs to the Salishan language family, whose domain extends from the Pacific coast eastward to western Montana and from British Columbia southward to Oregon.
http://nuuchahnulth.org/language/language.html (quicktime player needed)
On 13 September 2007, the UN passed its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
While the term “indigenous” is not defined, its 46 articles affirm the right to self-determination including the pursuits of economic, social and cultural development (Article 3). Other rights include:
* Maintaining distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions while participating in those of the state (Article 5),
* Not being forcibly assimilated (Article 8,
* Revitalizing and developing their language and educate in their language (Articles 13-14),
* Redress for past injustices (Article 28),
* Access across international borders (Article 36), and
* Financial and technical assistance from the state to achieve these rights (Article 39)
With Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States voting against, and 11 countries abstaining, the Declaration passed with 144 countries in favor.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~`WASHINGTON,D.C, Sept. 20, 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~~Washington State’s Lummi Indian Nation presented two totem poles carved out of red cedar trees older than the United States to the Pentagon Sept. 19 as a gesture of unity and support to the families of the 184 people who died there in the Sept. 11, 2001 attack.
The Liberty and Freedom totem poles with the Sovereignty crossbar placed across them are the “sacredness of love joining us together,” said Jewell “Praying Wolf” James, councilman and master carver of the Lummi Nation. The Lummi presented the poles to the Pentagon in a Sept. 19 ceremony to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001 attack. Photo by Rudi Williams
“The totem poles are a symbol of something that all of us have within us,” said Jewell “Praying Wolf” James, a councilman and master carver of the Lummi Nation. “We have the power to heal, the power to love each other, the power to unite — that’s what the symbol is about.
“The totem pole isn’t a sacred thing, it’s the sacredness of love joining us together,” said James, who wore a coned straw hat over long, black, braided hair and a black vest with a shadowy gray wolf’s head on the back.
Praying Wolf James, who introduced all of the totem pole carvers, said, “I’m proud of the Lummi Nation for believing that the four colors on these poles red, white, black and yellow reflect the four races of America. I think America is beautiful because we’re composed of all four races and we believe in liberty and freedom — the freedom to chose our own leadership and remove them, (and) the liberty to practice our own native beliefs or our own form of organized religion.”
He noted that more than 80 people helped carve, paint and clean up, and about four dozen Indian nations across the country helped take the poles to the three sites and added their prayers.
None of the photos here were taken from the University of Washington collection,though they have an excellent online library.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/native.html
Many of Edward Curtis&Asahel Curtis’ photos can be found copyright free at the Library of Congress website.
http://www.nalacircle.org/peacepoles.htm
Nisga’a tribe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfxlQZDYVlU
Makah Paddle to Lummi 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NlHnXg3sg8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gx1JAGyKC8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmmxKzS19Z8&feature=related
Tulalip Salmon Days,Lummi invite tribe to canoe journey,pow wow dancers,hoop dancer,Puyallup Tribe honors veterans
First Nations’ canoes
Samish Family&canoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_tOqwJLvmU
S’Klallam enter Lummi Potlatch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU7q_ti3c-U
Kwakiutl Red Cedar Ceremony Dances
Haida,Tlingit,Tsimshian,Kwakiutl,Cowichan,Tulalip,
Duwamish,Stillaguamish,Skokomish,Nootka,Sauk-Siattle,
S’Klallam,Squaxin Island
This video is dedicated to the memory of my friend Eleanor Little field,whose tribal name I could never say right.RIP
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This video shows scenes of Kwakiutl potlatch.One of the first acts in the first 72 hours of the Bush Administration was to strip the Duwamish Tribe of Federal Recognition.It was from them that I learned about potlatch.Without them the City of Seattle would not exist;
On 13 September 2007, the UN passed its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
While the term “indigenous” is not defined, its 46 articles affirm the right to self-determination including the pursuits of economic, social and cultural development (Article 3). Other rights include:
* Maintaining distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions while participating in those of the state (Article 5),
* Not being forcibly assimilated (Article 8,
* Revitalizing and developing their language and educate in their language (Articles 13-14),
* Redress for past injustices (Article 28),
* Access across international borders (Article 36), and
* Financial and technical assistance from the state to achieve these rights (Article 39)
With Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States voting against, and 11 countries abstaining, the Declaration passed with 144 countries in favor.
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