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#PillsofHope: lights made in USA

By Maddalena Maltese What’s life like in New York in the Covid-19 era? In the run up to this year’s United World Week (1-7 May), we continue our quest to amplify hope, the “sound of the growing forest”, through our...

“Pills” of hope: the silent transmission #3

We continue to receive heartening news which we publish here to highlight the countless initiatives multiplying in many parts of the planet. In the first “Pills” of Hope article we quoted Lao Tsu: “a falling tree makes more noise than...

Palermo: “going beyond borders”

Everything is closed. Doors and shutters firmly sealed by the pandemic. What about the city’s Rom families? The Corona virus pandemic is forcing us to look at so many things differently, as people die alone while grieving families are locked-down...

FOR NEW HUMANITY NGO THE TIME FOR PEACE IS NOW

Sign this petition 5.04.2020 Reports of the Corona Virus pandemic infection are chasing each other, highlighting that we are one race, with the same genetic heritage, the same way of getting sick, one humanity. However, we are not all the...

Pills of hope: the silent transmission #2

The United World Project team continues to tune in to initiatives of solidarity which are generating a global transmission of hope in the midst of the pandemic, listening to the “growing forest” (from the quote: “a falling tree makes more...

Stop the war machine

By Davide Penna A conversation with Genoa union leader José Nivoi who works in the north Italian port. We’re publishing this interview, which first appeared in April’s edition of the Italian magazine Città Nuova, to highlight and support the civil...

Stars from scars in Cameroon

See how a United World Ambassador is helping street children in Yaoundé, Cameroon, even during the Coronavirus crisis. Mabih, 36, lives with her family in Yaounde, Cameroon’s Capital city. In September 2019, she took part in a formation school for...

CRY OUT FOR PEACE, SILENCE THE GUNS

Call for a global ceasefire As the pandemic spreads, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has appealed for “an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world”, speaking in a live internet broadcast on 23 March. We asked “Communion and Law”...

NEW HUMANITY NGO STATEMENT IN THE TIME OF A PANDEMIC

24.03.2020 A statement by New Humanity NGO President to assure our closeness and solidarity to all those who, worldwide, suffer the spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic, the call to Countries to contribute to building real fraternity among peoples, the invitation to...

“Pills” of hope: the silent transmission

Just some of the countless initiatives of solidarity emerging from the Coronovirus outbreak: not all transmission is negative. As the world finds itself dramatically united by the spread of Coronavirus, sharing suffering and dismay over the growing number of deaths,...

Meeting wounded humanity in Lebanon’s largest prison

It took some time to reconstruct the facts referred to in this letter we received in our mailbox (mediaoffice@unitedworldproject.org). A tactful and strong text, a sort of secular meditation, a very deep and wise reflection on the theme of brotherhood,...

Coronavirus, the experience of a young Italian nurse

The testimony of Chiara Muffato, nurse in Mestre, province of Venice, for weeks an area with a high prevalence of Coronavirus. Since Wednesday, March 11, the whole of Italy has been in quarantine due to the Coronavirus outbreak. To date...

Sports and happiness

By Paolo Crepaz Every more or less competitive motor activity is a metaphor for life, a discovery of oneself, one’s limits and talents. Observing the miseries and contradictions of high performance sports (victory at all costs, the culture of no...

Greening music

Bands, singers and whole festivals are changing their ways of thinking about concerts and live music to reduce their environmental impact. Is it the start of a lasting change for an industry that every year produces tonnes of waste and...

Refugee crisis in Greece: Restore the Right to Asylum for Refugees

NEW HUMANITY NGO AND MPPU (MOVEMENT FOR POLITICS AND POLICIES FOR UNITY) APPEAL FOR WORTHY AND COURAGEOUS CHOICES What is happening now at the gates of Europe, on the border between Greece and Turkey, must awaken the collective civil conscience...

Behind the scenes of “The Economy of Francesco”

Let’s discover the work of the team that is preparing The Economy of Francesco*, the event that, from 26 to 28 March 2020, will gather in Assisi, invited by Pope Francis, about 2000 young economists, entrepreneurs and change makers from...

United Kingdom: not only Brexit

In the aftermath of Brexit (the UK’s exit from the European Union), part of the staff of the Collegamento CH went to England to try to understand how they arrived to this step and what can be expected for the future...

Loving beyond the border

By Alexander Simoen An experience lived by a group of young people from Scotland, Italy, Colombia, Algeria, Belgium, China, and Argentina representing the NGO New Humanity who visited Turkey and spent time with locals and refugees. We are Danila, Yang...

Working like the bees: together and sustainably

This year, in the fifth “Holidays with a difference” at El Espinal, Argentina, a group of “sustainable tourists” visited a new honey extraction and filter unit created in collaboration with an association of local women, working to boost artisan honey...

A “different” outlook on the crisis in Ecuador

By Catalina Hinojosa An account of the recent crisis in Ecuador from a peace-building perspective. In March 2019 the Ecuadorian government signed an agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a loan of $4,200million. The conditions imposed on the country...

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