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Please Hold in the Light
August 2021

Welcome
During International Days and major international conferences there is a special opportunity to serve in the creation of a more unified and compassionate world.
As meditators we can symbolically stand together with all actively working in the spirit of the Charter of Compassion, and invoke the aid of the Forces of Light in support of these events.

Daily Reminder
Check out a daily reminder of these events to hold in the light. Share this daily reminder with others by including the app on your website.

Sustainable Development Goals & Climate Change 
These International Days and events reflect important themes in the mobilization of energies to:
  • Build right relations in the world by addressing serious problems of poverty, inequality and climate change through practical actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030
  • engaging people of goodwill all over the world in a common movement.
 
2021 United Nations International Years
 
Silence at the United Nations



The Spiritual Caucus at the United Nations gathers in the vicinity of UN Headquarters in New York (September - June) on the third Thursday every month for 30 minutes of silence followed by 30 minutes of dialogue, sharing insights and exploring ways to use an inner focus in service of the work of the UN. On the 1st Thursday of the month the Caucus invites friends to sit in silence for 30 minutes in the newly renovated Meditation Room at UN Headquarters in New York.
Please link in from wherever you are. More information at: http://www.spiritualcaucusun.org/

In August the Spiritual Caucus is on a summer recess.
 
 
 

August Please Hold These Events in the Light


August 6 & 9
Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Day will be observed in Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9. Traditionally the entire population of Japan pauses every year during these important ceremonies and around the world many people commemorate the event by sending prayers to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
visithiroshima.net/
www.globalsilentminute.org

August 9
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

Theme 2021: Leaving no one behind: Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract.
This Day, together with the Second International Decade on the World's Indigenous People, is a sign of the growing concern for the rights and welfare of indigenous communities.
As we fight against the spread of the pandemic, it is more important than ever to safeguard indigenous peoples and their knowledge. Their territories are home to 80% of the world’s biodiversity and they can teach us much about how to rebalance our relationship with nature and reduce the risk of future pandemics.
www.un.org/en/
www.un.org/development/

August 12
International Youth Day

Theme 2021: Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health
The theme of International Youth Day 2021 contriutes to preparations for the important UN Food Systems Summit in September by highlighting the importance of engaging young people in the transformation of human food systems.
www.un.org/en/
www.un.org/development/

August 19
World Humanitarian Day

Theme 2021 #TheHumanRace - A global challenge for climate action in solidarity with people who need it the most.
This Day celebrates and shines a light on humanitarian aid workers around the world while also honoring those who have been killed or injured in the course of their work. The Day commemorates the tragic bombing of the UN Office in Iraq on 19 August 2003.
This year, World Humanitarian Day highlights the immediate human cost of the climate crisis by pressuring world leaders to take meaningful climate action for the world’s most vulnerable people.
www.un.org/en/
www.unocha.org/

August 21
International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism

First observed in 2018, this UN Day recognises that: While more countries are affected by terrorism today, the number of victims has largely been concentrated in a small number of Member States. In 2017 alone, nearly three-quarters of all deaths caused by terrorism were in just five countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia and Syria.
www.un.org/en/
www.un.org/victimsofterrorism/

August 22
International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief

In May of 2019 the UN General Assembly resolved to observe this day. Freedom of religion or belief, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to peaceful assembly and the right to freedom of association are interdependent, interrelated and mutually reinforcing. They are enshrined in articles 18, 19 and 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Upholding these rights plays an important role in the fight against all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion or belief.
www.un.org/en/events/

August 22
Full Moon — Leo

Since ancient times human beings have honored the full moon as a time when the sacred is most accesible. It is a time of light - the moon reflects the light of the sun onto the face of the earth. In astrology this is a time when the qualities and potentials of the zodiacal sign of the sun are especially available to humanity for use in service.
During the full moon religious and esoteric groups around the world use the opportunities of this time to vizualize light and love and spiritual power flowing into humanity and strengthening all that is being done to help prepare the way for a world of unity, justice and peace; a world in which the Sustainable Development Goals will be achieved.
www.lucistrust.org

August 23 - 27
World Water Week

2021 theme: Building Resilience Faster.
World Water Week in Stockholm, usually involving over 300 collaborating organizations, is the annual focal point for the globe’s water and development issues. The Week provides a unique forum for the exchange of views, experiences and practices between the scientific, business, policy and civic communities. It focuses on new thinking and positive action toward water-related challenges and their impact on the world’s environment, health, climate, economic and poverty reduction agendas.
This year's Week will consist of a wide range of digital events.
www.worldwaterweek.org/
www.unwater.org/

August 23
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

This is a Day to celebrate humanity's achievement in abolishing the slave trade, and to reflect upon the history of the relations between Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean.
The process that led to the abolition of the slave trade began on the night of 22 to 23 August, 1791 when the slaves of Saint-Dominque and Haiti rose up in rebellion.
Meditators can reflect on the deep significance to the goodwill movement of the struggle against slavery, and its eventual abolition. This was a moral revolution of enormous significance. Yet although law abolished the slave trade, slavery continues to be practiced throughout the world, and the struggle against slavery continues in many fields of human relationship. The principles of freedom and human rights are now deeply ingrained in the conscience - the struggle is to bring these principles into expression.
www.unesco.org
en.unesco.org/commemorations/

August 28 - 31
ReGeneration Week

Theme 2021 #ReThinkingTheSystem
ReGeneration Week is part of Regeneration 2030, a movement led and organised by teenagers and young adults in the 14 countries and autonomous regions of the Nordic and Baltic Sea region (including Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus,and Ukraine).
This years Summit will take place in Mariehamn on the Åland islands – the birthplace of ReGeneration 2030. The event will provide a platform for international and intergenerational dialogue in connection to the UN Agenda 2030 and the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs).
regenerationweek.org

August 29
International Day Against Nuclear Tests

On this United Nations Day the goal is to encourage governments, NGO's and all concerned parties to raise awareness of the need to ban nuclear tests as a valuable step to achieving a safer world.
It is a little known fact that, as a result of regional treaties, the entire southern hemisphere of the planet is now a virtual nuclear weapons free zone. On July 17 2017 the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted. This is the first multilateral legally binding instrument for nuclear disarmament to have been negotiated in 20 years, by 122 countries.
www.un.org/en/events/
www.ctbto.org


August 30
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

Enforced disappearances (including arrests, detention and abduction) have frequently been used by military dictatorships and political groups to spread terror in a society and eliminate opposition.
Reflecting a growing concern amongst governments as well as people of goodwill, UN member states adopted an International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and, since 2011, have observed August 30 as this International Day. www.un.org/en/events/disappearancesday/


August 31
International Day for People of African Descent

Observed for the first time in 2021, the International Day for People of African Descent aims to promote the extraordinary contributions of the African diaspora around the world and to eliminate all forms of discrimination against people of African descent. The UN is observing 2015 - 2024 as the International Decade for people of African Descent.
www.un.org
www.un.org/...decade-people-african-descent