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UN Marks a Starting Point for Peace: One Day at a Time
Beginning in 1999, Gilley wrote hundreds of letters to, as he puts it, “everybody,” ultimately getting the attention and interest of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, Nobel Peace Prize winner Óscar Arias and United Nations Secretary General Kofi A. Annan. Within two years, the first United Nations International Day of Peace, September 21, 2001, was submitted to the General Assembly by Costa Rica and the British government with 54 cosponsors, and unanimously adopted by the 189 member nations.
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UN Observes Nelson Mandela Day With a Global Call to Service
“There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”
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USCIRF Welcomes Two Long-Term Champions of Religious Freedom to the Team
Frank Wolf and David Curry, after many decades of advocating for human rights and religious freedom, will now be officially empowered to monitor violations globally.
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What Human Rights Day Means to Me
I’m about to board a flight back to the U.S. after spending two weeks delivering human rights lectures and musical performances to youth in Taiwan. Door to door the travel time is about 25 hours. In other words, I’m about as far away as I could be from home while still being on planet earth.
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Who’s Next in the Crosshairs of Discrimination?
Understand, that if one innocent person or group is not safe among us—if one person or group is denied the freedoms that are our basic human rights—none are safe.
Why All People of Faith Must Cherish and Protect the First Amendment
The sacred texts of the Church of Scientology were misunderstood, taken out of context, and embedded into a decision which stated, wrongly, what Scientologists believe.
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Why Black History IS History
“Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.” - Maya Angelou
Why God Is Love and We Should Love All People of All Faiths
My relationship with Christ and subsequent knowledge of God will not allow me to be an enemy to those who choose a different path to him.
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Why Religion Matters Now More Than Ever
More than ever in these tumultuous times, Man needs knowledge of his own spirituality and a higher state to reach for as a goal.
Why USCIRF Calls it Genocide: How the Burmese Military Is Persecuting Rohingya Muslims
With a stroke of the pen, an entire people assumed the status of aliens, invaders, stateless and rightless, with targets on their backs.
