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>UN High Level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda</em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">As the whole world counts down to the 2015 as the deadline for the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals, it was very timely that the United Nations began the process of evaluating the performance of the MDGs and started planning towards shaping the next set of development goals.
<p><em>The meeting on 1st May at Jerusalem is the next step after Genfest 2012</em></p> <p>“Let’s Bridge” is the slogan that inaugurated the opening of the Genfest on 1st May 2012. Throughout this year, we Youth for a United World (Y4UW) focused on building bridges with all the people we meet, wherever we may be. This worldwide commitment was highlighted during the early days of September through the witness of 12,000 young people gathered in Budapest. On this event the United World Project (www.unitedworldproject.org) was launched, a project aiming at increasing and spreading the culture of fraternity.</p>
<p><em>An attraction for modern economy. The end of the Winter School in Croatia</em></p> <p><em>“.....to penetrate in the highest contemplation</em><br /><em>while remaining amongst others,</em><br /><em>man beside man.”</em><br />(From the writings of Chiara Lubich)</p> <p>The second day of the Winter School in Croatia began with this meditation by Chiara Lubich. A morning built upon deep sharing. The dialogue between Luigino Bruni (Coordinator of the International Commission of Economy of Communion - EoC) and the participants brought one to reflect on the economic situation existing today and its values.</p>
<h1><span>The UN Focal Point on Youth launched a four-week online discussion platform on 23 January 2013 </span></h1> <p>As part of the preparations for the 2013 UN World Youth Report (WYR) on Youth Migration and Development, the UN Focal Point on Youth launched a four-week online discussion platform on 23 January. </p> <p>Newly available estimates of international migrants by age produced by the Population Division of DESA indicated that by mid-2010, globally, there were 27 million international migrants aged 15 to 24, constituting about one-eighth of the global migrant stock of 214 million. </p>
<p>A young twenty year-old with a beautiful smile, fresh and simple, that’s how Alejandra Giménez looks. She is studying the second year of Medicine in Asunción, Paraguay, where she lives with her parents and a younger brother. With lots of enthusiasm, Alejandra tells about her commitment at the University, in the scientific and student associations. All these commitments and activities obviously take time from her studies, and she needs to leave out many things she would like to do, but she manages all these because she gives the required time to her spiritual formation. That’s why she meets regularly with the other young people from the Focolare, where she finds all the support she needs. But let’s hear it from her.</p>
<p>During our visit to the majestic grounds of the Shwedagon Pagoda, some of us were given a passionate and beautiful commentary on the meaning of the place and its importance to the national identity. Only to be pleasantly surprised that our guides were a Muslim and a Hindu. Then we were inspired by other encounters such as a young doctor who had the opportunity to pursue a career overseas but chose to come back and set up his medical practice. These experiences inspire us to be hopeful of the future of Myanmar because of our peers; the young religious leaders.</p>
<p>"Oggi parlo con Luna di Aleppo. Mi fa sapere che stanno tentando, con Marah, Yasmina e alcuni amici (anche la nonna di Luna si è messa al lavoro con slancio), di avviare una piccola attività in casa (marmellate, centrini o altro) e vorrebbe trovare una possibilità per smerciarli, questi prodotti. Mi dice chiaramente: "Tanti come noi sono grati se ricevono aiuti per comprare il pane o qualche litro di gasolio per il riscaldamento ma vogliamo lavorare! Quanto saremmo più contente se questo si realizzasse!".</p>
<p>I am in my last semester of college, living at home with my parents and two of my three brothers. I have a very nice relationship with my younger brother who also tries to live the spirituality of unity. The only thing we bicker about is the cleanliness of the living room. I have to say my whole family is kind of lazy, but I think my younger brother is the worst! I always find myself having to remind him to pick up his shoes, dishes, and so on. Once, I even took a picture with my phone of a dirty dish he left in the living room and sent it to him via a text message, saying, “don’t do this again.” Even so, my constant nagging did not seem to work.</p>
<p><em>From the 10th to 13th May 2013, the little town of ¨Piero” in Nairobi (Kenya) will host the “Enculturation School”, a workshop that this year will have as the main theme ¨The Person” in various African traditions. Besides, a group of young people will take part in the first stage of the Project “Sharing with Africa”. In preparation for this event, we publish Giulia´s account of her Ugandan experience</em></p> <p>"Malpensa Airport, 2nd August 2011: destination 'Kampala – Uganda'. I felt extremely excited although I still couldn’t imagine that in the coming four weeks I would have one of the most beautiful and important experiences of my life. For a month I lived together and shared daily life with another Italian girl and three Ugandans. This obliged me from the very beginning to put aside all my 'western' habits, every way of doing or thinking, in order to be open myself to them and their life. But what at first were just small sacrifices soon became a treasure, a new way of thinking and relating to people around me.
Health, Sport & Ecology
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Dialogue & Interculture
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