Stories from around the globe show how a united world is already in motion. This platform highlights experiences, initiatives, and projects from people and communities working for unity and peace. Explore what’s happening and get inspired.
<p><em>The 23rd Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union – held June 20-27 – wrapped up in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on Friday, June 27, with a number of advances announced.</em></p> <p><strong>Organized under the theme:</strong> “2014 Year of Agriculture and Food Security”, the African leaders attending the Summit <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of the African Union, </span>were unanimous on the strategies needed to promote the continent’s agricultural development, a sector which, accounts for one third of Africa’s GDP and employs about 60 percent of the labor force. <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The 23rd Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union – held June 20-27 – wrapped up in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on Friday, June 27, with a number of advances announced.
<p><em>A Report published on Wednesday 18 June in London</em> <em>has calculated it's <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">mainly due to global increases in terrorist activity, the number of conflicts fought and the number of refugees and displaced people.</span></em></p> <p><strong>The GPI, <strong>founded by Mr. Steve Killelea </strong></strong>who is Executive Chairman and Founder, Institute for Economics and Peace launched its 2014 Report on Wednesday 18 June in London, is the world’s leading benchmark for measuring the peacefulness of nations - measures peace according to 22 qualitative and quantitative indicators identifying the most and least peaceful countries, tracks trends in violence and conflict, and calculates the economic impact of violence.</p> <p><strong>The Report found that world global average peace</strong> score deteriorated slightly since last year, mainly due to global increases in terrorist activity, the number of conflicts fought and the number of refugees and displaced people.
<p><em>US is the only member of Nato not to have signed an international treaty banning the use of anti-personnel landmines</em></p> <p><strong>The US announced today</strong> it would stop producing and buying anti-personnel landmines, the controversial weapons banned by all other Western nations.</p> <p><strong>The move is a major step</strong> towards allowing the US to finally join an international treaty, championed by Princess Diana, which bans the use of the small explosives.
<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. It's<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> begun Sunday june 29, and Muslims around the world begin fasting for a month from sunrise until sunset.</span></span></em></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>In this photo a Muslim woman reads a copy</strong> of the Koran at the Istiqlal mosque during the second day of ramadan in Jakarta, Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, on September 2, 2008. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><strong>Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic calendar,</strong> has begun Sunday june 29, and Muslims around the world begin fasting for a month from sunrise until sunset.</p>
<p><em>Tweet and video message from pope Francis for the start of the World Championship of Football in Brazil: «Fair play» and respect for opponent</em></p> <p><strong>«</strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><strong>I wish you all a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true brotherhood»</strong>. That is what Pope Francis wrote in a tweet launched on the occasion of the inauguration ceremony of the World Cup in Brazil. The “tweet” is added to a video message (...) in which the Pope hopes that the World Cup «will be take place in complete serenity and tranquility, always with mutual respect, solidarity and fraternity among men and women who acknowledge that they are members of one family». The Pope hopes that «in addition to a sports celebration» the World Cup in Brazil will become a «festival of solidarity between nations»</span></span></p>
<p><em>Girl sends letter asking her father's boss to give him time off for his birthday (and it worked)</em></p> <p><strong>A Google employee is getting a week off work</strong> to spend with his young daughter thanks to an adorable note she wrote to his boss. Katie begged the internet giant to give her father just one day off to celebrate his birthday.<br /><strong>'Dear google worker,'</strong> the handwritten note reads. 'Can you please make sure when daddy goes to work, he gets one day off. Like he can get get a day off on wednesday. Because daddy ONLY gets a day off on saturday.'</p> <p><strong>The little girl’s plea didn’t end there.</strong>'P.S. It is daddy’s BIRTHDAY!' she wrote in blue crayon. 'P.P.S. It is summer, you know.'
<div style="height: 100%; color: #515151; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-color: #ffffff; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; line-height: 130%; min-width: 90%; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial;"> <p style="font-size: 13px;"><em>In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmBIpUYv-QY" target="_blank">a video on youtube</a> , to mark WRD of Friday june 20, Berahino has thanked England for giving him ‘a second chance’ out the war.</em></p> <p style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmBIpUYv-QY">West Bromwich Albion striker</a> Saido Berahino has thanked the England nation for giving him a second chance at life. He once thought his life was over.</p> <p style="font-size: 13px;"><strong>In 1993, Berahino was born during</strong> the Burundi civil war and lost his father four years later. After escaping the war-torn country, Berahino was separated from his family, including his mother and sisters.
<p><em>A project that provides various forms of help and action, in a sort of partnership between different cities and communities. Youth, adults, children, locals and tourists alike: there are many people involved in the project Batam.</em></p> <p><strong>Fifty minutes of the ship separated Singapore from Indonesia</strong>, which is one of the 17,000 islands of Batam. Twenty miles away and nearly two worlds that do not belong: the relations between the two countries are good, but while the former is rich, the second is poor. While one is a city-state with five million inhabitants, is the second largest archipelago in the world where 240 million people live. Only these numbers could make people understand why the reaction of tre.D 'Moreover the words of the Gospel were clear: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" (Golden Rule, ed.).
Dialogue & Interculture
United World Week
Every year, from May 1st to 7th, the United World Project support, together with the Focolare Movement and Youth for a United World (Y4UW), the United World Week, a global action where many people promote events and initiatives worldwide to foster dialogue, unity, and peace.
Dialogue & Interculture
Dialogue & Interculture
Dialogue & Interculture
United World Week
Here’s the key: knowing that we do not know. No one possesses the absolute Truth, and by engaging in dialogue with everyone we can grasp aspects or fragments of truth that help us reassemble a shattered vase that we can restore only if we are “together”.
Economy & Work
Anna Granata, professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, reminds us that teaching peace is not an abstract utopia. It is something that happens every day in Italian classrooms among children with diverse stories, languages, and backgrounds.
Art & Social Commitment
Celebrated Marvel and DC artist Gabriele Dell’Otto invites us to consider the people who are working to build peace as the real superheroes of our world. A profound discussion on responsibility, citizenship, and the challenge of doing the extraordinary in our everyday lives.
EN
