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 hold these events in the light of a Higher Wisdom.
Millennium Goals & Climate Change
These International Days and events reflect important themes in the mobilization of energies to:
- fulfill the historic promise made by world leaders in 1999 to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, halving extreme poverty
- to respond appropriately to the urgent needs of climate change
- and to engage people of goodwill all over the world in the process of defining new Sustainable Development Goals to replace the Millennium Development Goals that expire in 2015.
2015 United Nations International Years
- International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies
- International Year of Soils
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 July the Spiritual Caucus is on a summer break.
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July 11 - 31 Please Hold These Events in the Light
July 11
Action 2015 Global Day of Action
Just before the Financing for Development Conference begins in Addis Ababa rallies, gatherings and flashmobs are scheduled to take place across the globe calling on leaders to pay attention to the Conference. The campaigns will be organised by a coalition of 1600 organisations from around the world working ubnder the banner action/2015.
action2015.org
July 13 - 16
Financing for Development : Third International Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
At the Third International Conference on Financing for Development governments will be setting out how they will achieve their goals on poverty elimination and sustainability – focussing particularly on what financial energy will be needed to meet the goals and how that energy will be generated.Activists from civil society will also be gathered at Addis Ababa for the conference.
Meditators are encouraged to work with the visualization for this conference offered by the Cycle of Conferences Initiative of World Goodwill. The intention is to visualize a lighted seed of ‘will energy’ pouring into the heart of the thinking, negotiating and planning that will take place during the Addis Ababa conference.
www.un.org/esa/ffd/
csoforffd.wordpress.com/cso-forum/
www.lucistrust.org/cycle/
July 18
Nelson Mandela International Day
This official United Nations Day has been observed every year on Nelson Mandela's birthday since 2010.
The Day honors Mandela's stature as a world leader and his remarkable contribution to freedom, justice and democracy. He is indeed greatly loved by people of goodwill around the world. Nelson Mandela is a living embodiment of the highest values of the United Nations. … He is an exemplary global citizen, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The overarching objective of Mandela Day is to inspire individuals to take action to help change the world for the better, and in doing so build a global movement for good. Ultimately it seeks to empower communities everywhere. "Take Action; Inspire Change; Make Every Day a Mandela Day."
www.un.org/en/events/mandeladay/
www.mandeladay.com/
July 20 - 31
UN Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations: Negotiations on the Outcome Document
In September the major re-focus of the United Nations Development Agenda will take its final form with a Declaration of a set of transformative Sustainable Development Goals to guide and inspire action for the next 15 years. During this negotiation session governments will focus on the Declaration Document. In June, at the last General Assembly negotiation session a Final Draft Document was prepared. At this meeting this Final Draft will be further considered.
The Final Draft affirms in its Preamble: This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity that also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. All countries acting in collaborative partnership will implement the plan. We are resolved
to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet for present and
future generations. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps needed to shift the world on to
a sustainable path. As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind.
sustainabledevelopment.un.org
July 22 - 25
Nexus Global Youth Summit on Innovative Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship, New York, USA
This is the fifth in an annual series of global gatherings bringing together young philanthropists, investors, social entrepreneurs and allies. The event aims to inspire new leadership, greater generosity, and more strategic investing in social and environmental projects. Part of the event will be held at UN Headquarters.
Nexus is a global movement of 2000+ young people from over 70 countries working to increase and improve philanthropy and impact investing by bridging communities of wealth and social entrepreneurship.
www.nexusyouthsummit.org
July 28
World Hepatitis Day
Hepatitis remains largely unknown as a health threat in many regions of the world - yet around 240 million people are chronically infected with hepatitis B and around 150 million people chronically infected with hepatitis C. Many of those who are infected with the disease have no symptoms, often for decades, until they develop chronic liver disease. Approximately 1.4 million people die every year as a result of the virus, commonly from cirrhosis and liver cancer.
World Hepatitis day provides an opportunity to hold this silent epidemic in the light, focussing on strengthening prevention, screening and control; increasing Hepatitis B vaccine coverage and coordinating a global response to hepatitis.
www.who.int/campaigns/hepatitis-day/
www.worldhepatitisalliance.org/
July 30
International Day of Friendship
United Nations International Day of Friendship highlights friendship as the fundamental glue uniting people across diverse cultures and backgrounds; an essential requirement in building of Cultures of Peace and fundamental to the work of the United Nations.
The idea of friendship permeates the work and ideals of the United Nations. The Charter proclaims that one of the purposes of the Organization is "to develop friendly relations among nations". These same words appear in the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. UNESCO’s Constitution speaks of the need for peace based not just on the "political and economic arrangements of governments", but on the "intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind". And the UN Alliance of Civilizations initiative aims to improve cooperation and understanding among nations and peoples across cultures and religions, including to counter the forces that fuel extremism. Ban Ki-moon
www.un.org/en/events/friendshipday/
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 Millenium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals will be achieved.
www.lucistrust.org
www.worldservicegroup.com/
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