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2016-2017. History day by day
January 2016 – Geneva. Jorge M. Dias Ferreira, served as General Moderator for this Special Event to present the encyclical, “Laudato Si: Caring for Our Common Home”. The event was co-organised by the Forum of Catholic-Inspired NGOs (CINGO) and the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See in Geneva.
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April 2016 – Rome. “OnCity” gathered 800 participants from all over the world in order to reflect about Dialogue, as a lifestyle and as an approach to face the contemporary challenges; active citizenship, as a resource for the cities; networking, as a tool to share good practices and more solidar and liveable cities.
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April 2016 – Geneva. New Humanity and the other Catholic Inspired NGOs active in Geneva supported the Focolari Movement and the World Council of Churches on the organisation of a round table to analyse the historical European experience and to identify and point out the better values and ideals to contribute to overcame the present crisis and to arrange the future of Europe.
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April 2016 – Madrid.“EducationandUnity” (EdU) organised a three-days-long meeting in order to present “an Inclusive and Solidar Education”. Many of its experts contributed to this event.
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April 2016 – Geneva. Jorge M. Dias Ferreira of New Humanity duringthe presentation of OIDEL Report “The Freedom of Education Index” and of UNESCO Document “Rethinking Education: Towards a Common Good?”
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April 2016 – Geneva. Prof. Davide Bilardi represented New Humanity during the seventeenth session of the Working Group on the Right to Development and Contributed to Relaunch the UN Agenda on the Right to Development.
May 2016 – Quito. “”Link Culture – A path for Peace” is the title of the main event of the United World Week (UWW) 2016. In 2016, the main event has been organised at the Equador’s capital city, some weeks after that a tremendous hearthquake hit the Country. It has been a unique occasion to “ask again with a renovate strenght unity and peace for our people”.
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June2016 – Geneva. On th occasion of the 32nd Oridnary Session of the UN Human Rights Council, New Humanity and the other catholic inspired NGOs in Geneva (CINGO) presented on several occasions their priorities: 1) Migrants, 2) Right to Solidarity, 3) Right to Development.
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June 2016 – Geneva. Jorge M. Dias Ferreira, reflected about the role of the Catholic Church at the United Nations in Geneva with the Youth Responsibles of the salesian IIMGA NGO. It has been the occasion to speak also about his persona experience to the 10 participants from Mexico, Costa Rica, Spain, Philippines and Italy..
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June 2016 – Geneva. Jorge M. Dias Ferreira, delivered a question-Intervention to promote new policies for families, during the Parallel event organised by the Pontifical Council for the Family and the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See.
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July 2016 – Munich. 300 Movement and Communities, from various Churches in different European Countries gathered for their 4th General Meeting of the “Together for Europe” Network in Munich. The current edition gathered more than 1500 participants in order to discuss about Integration and Recounciliation, Solidarity, Sustainability and Environment Care, Dialogue between Christians and Muslims, Family and Marriages, Economy,…
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October 2016 – Paris. On 17 December 1996 Chiara Lubich was in Paris to receive the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education. Twenty years later, in collaboration with the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to UNESCO, New Humanity remembers the founder of the Focolare Movement (from whose spirituality New Humanity draws its inspiration) with a cultural manifestation under the patronage of the UNESCO (the United Nations’ Agency for Education, Science and Culture) entitled: “Reinventing Peace: Education towards a Humanism Based the Unity of the Human Family”.
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Ocotber 2016 – Geneva. Jorge M. Dias Ferreira signed on the name of New Humanity a letter to the Ambassadors for the UN Delegations in New York, reccommending to vote favorably on the Human Rights Declaration on the Right to Peace (A/RHC/RES/32/28) that has been adopted in the Third Committee of the ongoing 71th General Assembly. The letter was promoted by Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII, IADL, the Japanese Committee for the Human Right to Peace and UNOY.
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November 2016 – Querétaro. Nancy Avila and Abraham Arzola, two Youth for a United World – the youth branch of New Humanity – represented this NGO at the 6th international forum of NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO. The forum’s theme was “From promotion to construction of peace with NGOs”.
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November 2016 – New York. New Humanity contributed to the latest session ot the UN Commission of the Status of Women.
It collected into a writte statement various experiences from indigenous women and how they promoted the economic development of their communities.
The experiences by four different communities of indigenous women has been presented.
December 2016 – Paris. A delegation of New Humanity attended the Conference of NGOs in Partnership with the UNESCO. The conference gathered more than 100 representatives. The topic of the event was: “The challenges of the numeric revolution for the NGOs”.
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April 2017 – Rome. Yearly Assembly of New Humanity 2017. Days of intense work at the New Humanity’s annual seminar assembly in Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Civil life, global citizenship, ecology, migration and refugees, inter-religious dialogue and Peace Education are only a few of the topics that were addressed during the seminar
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May 2017 – New York. At the event on “New models of interaction between the public and private actors, successes and challenges and their meaning for development finance and the eradication of poverty”, New Humanity presents the Tassano Consortium, inspired to the Economy of Communion.
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June 2017 – Geneva. 35th Regular Session of the UN Council of Human Rights. A presentation on behalf of New Humanity and other Catholic Inspired NGOs highlights the need for Right to international solidarity.
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June 2017 – Geneva. Event “Right to International Solidarity: Meeting with the independent expert on the revised draft of the Declaration”. Meeting with the UN expert, Dr. Virginia Dandan, to review the draft of a Declaration on the Right to International Solidarity.
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June 2017 – Geneva. New Humanity is one of the organizations co-signatories of the joint declaration of the Catholic Inspired NGOs in Geneva on unaccompanied minors, which was presented on June 15 on the occasion of the event on “Migration in Central America: migrants are not a danger, rather they are in danger”, organized as a side event to the UN Human Rights Council. The proposed action plan, inspired by Pope Francis’ words, formulated nine key points.
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June 2017 – Geneva. Transhumanism and Cyberculture: Relationships between Science and Human Rights. Prof. Juan Garcia Gutierrez has been invited as main speaker, in order to guide the reflection on the ethical challenges provoked by the new technologies. The focus was especially on education and learning process of the youngest generations.
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July 2017 – Geneva. Seminar “International Solidarity: Principle or Right?” As part of the research seminar — which was focused on reflecting on the philosophical, political and juridical aspects of international solidarity — New Humanity contributed with a reflection on the specific aspects pertaining to the implications in education.
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October 2017 – Rome. A Path to Peace Education: Training Course for Animators, Teachers and Educators. In the framework of the Living Peace International Project, New Humanity and other New Humanity and other related organizations focused on themes such as the Culture to Peace and Reciprocity and explored some concrete initiatives, such as the “Dice for Peace” and the project “Let’s Colour the City”.
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October 2017 – Rome. NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee. On Friday October 6th 2017, the Committee on the UNESCO Executive Council’s PNGs held a meeting in which the three representatives of the NGO New Humanity in Paris were present.
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November 2017 – Paris. 39th Session of the UNESCO General Conference. For the first time on its history, New Humanity delivered an oral Statement at the UNESCO General Conference of the member States. This declaration has been presented at the plenary session by Ms Chantal Grevin, permanent representative of New umanity at the UNESCO.
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November 2017 – Paris. 8th International Forum of NGOs partners of UNESCO. On December 7 and 8, the 8th international forum of the NGOs partners of UNESCO took place in Paris. The title – “Changing Minds, rather than the Climate”, was a clear reference to the role that NGOs can play on the climate change issue.
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December 2017 – Paris. On December 7 and 8, the 8th international forum of the NGOs partners of UNESCO took place in Paris. Yves Froissart, a member of New Humanity and an environmental engineer, took part in the first panel discussion about “Ethics, Solidarity and Rights for Climate Justice”.
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December 2017 – Rome.The New Humanity main representatives took part in an important event that had the presence of representatives from over 100 NGOs, Apostolic Nuncios at different international organizations, as well as other civil and religious authorities. A small representation also had the opportunity to meet Pope Francis in person.
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