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CONDOLENCES FOR THE DEATH OF ABDULAZIZ SAUD AL-BABTAIN, MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD
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15 December 2023
The Secretary-General Michele Capasso, the Council of Ambassadors, the Board of Governors with Pia Molinari and Jacopo Molinari, the International Committee, the delegates of the autonomous sections "Fondazione Mediterraneo", "Accademia del Mediterraneo" and "Almamed" and the heads of the branch offices express their deep condolences for the passing of Abdulaziz-Al-Babtain, a founding member of the United States of the World.
A leading figure in Kuwaiti culture, he was a highly regarded poet who made a fundamental contribution to Arab culture by writing numerous poetry collections and serving as head of the Al-Babtain Group for Poetic Creativity.
Secretary General Michele Capasso remembers his fraternal friend, his visits to the Naples headquarters on the occasion of the "Mediterranean Award" attributed to him, his poetry meetings in Kuwait City with Jacopo Molinari, and the opening of a special section on Arab poetry in the Library of the Museum of Peace in Naples, the result of an agreement between the Al Babtain Foundation and the Fondazione Mediterraneo.
An official communiqué expressed sincere condolences to the bereaved family and friends of the deceased.
THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD SUPPORTS THE THIRD WORLD MARCH FOR PEACE
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11 December 2023
The United States of the World with the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the women's peace network "Kimiyya" support the third "World March for Peace and Nonviolence" that will take place in 2024 to denounce the dangerous world situation with growing conflicts, increased arms expenditures while, at the same time, in vast areas of the planet many populations suffer due to lack of food and water.
The main objectives are:
- Continue to create awareness that only through 'peace' and 'non-violence' will the human species open up its future.
- To make visible the various positive actions that people, communities and peoples are developing in numerous places in the direction of the application of human rights, non-discrimination, cooperation, peaceful coexistence and non-aggression.
- Giving voice to the new generations who want to take over and make their mark by installing the culture of non-violence in the collective imagination, in education, in politics, in society...
In the same way that ecological awareness has been installed in just a few years.
The central issues to be addressed are:
- The prohibition of nuclear weapons. Proportional disarmament and the renunciation of states to use war to resolve conflicts or to appropriate resources. "We are determined to avoid wars for future generations".
- The re-founding of the United Nations, including the addition to the Security Council of an Environmental Security Council and a Socio-Economic Security Council. "United Nations watching over all citizens of the planet".
- The creation of conditions for a fully sustainable planet, taking into account the fact that this is a limited space that we absolutely must take care of. "Earth is everyone's home".
- The integration of regions and areas with socio-economic systems in order to ensure well-being and resources for all, with the goal of eliminating world hunger in the next 10 years. "We want to eliminate hunger in human history".
The United States of the World says "No" to discrimination of any kind: gender, age, race, religion, economy, etc. "No human being above another". Nonviolence as a new culture and active nonviolence as a methodology of action. "Nonviolence is the force that transforms the world".
CARLO FORESTA AND CORRADO PERRICONE VISITING THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD AND THE MUSEUM OF PEACE
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09 December 2023
Professors Carlo Foresta and Corrado Perricone visited the United States of the World and the Museum of Peace accompanied by their respective families.
Welcomed by Secretary-General Prof. Michele Capasso, they expressed their appreciation for a unique place that is a heritage of humanity.
THE MUSEUM OPENS TO COLDIRETTI
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07 December 2023
The Museum of Peace with "The Campania of Emotions" welcomed many visitors to the "Coldiretti" village hosted from 7 to 9 December in Piazza Municipio right in front of the Museum's shop windows and entrance.
Among thousands of visitors, more than 1,000 visited the Museum, appreciating the emotional videos of "The Campania of Emotions".
THE AIDDA CAMPANIA ASSOCIATION SIGNS THE KIMIYYA POSTER
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06 December 2023
The AIDDA Campania association signs the "Kimiyya" poster of the United States of the World for women's rights. Led by President Carla Librera, a number of associates have adhered to "Kimiyya", strengthening the autonomous women's section of the United States of the World with their role.
AIDDA Campania is the regional delegation of the first Italian association created with the specific objective of enhancing and supporting female entrepreneurship, the role of women managers and professionals.
Founded in 1961 in Turin, it acquired legal personality and the status of Third Sector Body in 2023. It is the most authoritative reference point for women who take on roles of responsibility in the Italian economic structure and is an organisation that actively interacts and stimulates the socio-economic and cultural fabric of civil society.
AIDDA, with its 800 members, gives a valuable support and contribution in terms of ideas and experience to the female entrepreneurial and professional world, represented by small, medium and large Italian women's enterprises with a transversalitỳ in every product sector, a strong representation of family, historical, craft businesses mirroring an Italy made up of tradition, creativitỳ, excellence, qualitỳ; a priceless economic, historical and social heritage.
AIDDA is divided into 13 regional Delegations and its members represent a turnover of 12.5 billion and 35,000 employees.
AIDDA CAMPANIA VISITING THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD AND THE MUSEUM OF PEACE
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06 December 2023
The president of the AIDDA Campania association Carla Librera with some associates visited the Naples headquarters of the United States of the World with the Museum of Peace.
For eight hours, accompanied by Secretary-General Prof. Michele Capasso, the women entrepreneurs visited the main emotional paths of a World Heritage Site. The visit ended with a typical dinner with special products from Vesuvius.
The participants' appreciation for a place described as extraordinary was unanimous.
WORLD VOLUNTEER DAY
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05 December 2023
The United States of the World organised the "World Volunteer Day" in various countries.
The coordinator of the "Volunteering and Human Rights" section of the United States of the World, Senator Giuseppe Lumia, spoke at a significant meeting promoted in Padua by the Luciano Tavazza Association and the new European Volunteer Network (Re.V.E., which recalls the French "rêve", i.e. dream).
In Padua, the proposal to amend the Third Sector Code was presented.
A proposal that sums up the discomfort experienced today by the Volunteers of the small but vital groups, which act in local communities, and of the territorial and national Networks, which still have the desire to change the path of humanity through the concrete example of promoting new relationships and sharing with those who live the condition of discomfort, marginalisation and loneliness.
A proposal that has these objectives:
- to overcome the currently asphyxiating excess of bureaucratic and fiscal constraints in the Code on the Third Sector and in particular on organised volunteering.
- make it clear that Volunteering is necessarily free of charge and has exclusive aims of altruity, proximity, education and solidarity in all fields of social and cultural action.
- make it clear that Volunteering must have relations with institutions of "high integration" and not of vassalage or prostration to the powerful.
Modern volunteering is not welfare, it is not called upon to 'plug the holes' produced by society, the economy and politics. Rather, it is a concrete experience that, if done with conscience and preparation, changes the lives of volunteers and supports those profound changes that are needed more than ever within our consciences, in relationships and in the most dramatic situations of human existence, which has to deal with inequalities of all kinds, with devastating wars, with the expansion of substance and behavioural addictions, with the worsening of gender discrimination, which then unleash unspeakable violence, with the spread of mafias, increasingly collusive and powerful, with the still underestimated climate change, just to mention the main crises underway.
COP28: "EDUCATING TO CONTEMPLATE CREATION"
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04 December 2023
Despite the absence of Pope Francesco at COP28, the Faith Pavilion was inaugurated in Dubai with the screening of video messages by Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb and the Pontiff himself in the presence of Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Cardinal Miguel Ayuso, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. The UAE Minister for Tolerance and Coexistence, Shaykh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahyan, did the honours at the Pavilion of Faith before presiding with Miguel Moratinos, UN Representative for the Alliance of Civilisations, at the special event of the Global Tolerance Alliance that invited Imam Yahya Pallavicini and Rabbi David Rosen alongside local Coptic Christian and Sikh religious leaders.
A delegation from the United States of the World and the Fondazione Mediterraneo took part in the proceedings.
On this occasion, the Faith Pavilion was inaugurated for the first time within the ongoing climate conference in Dubai.
PRESIDENT AMATO SIGNS THE KIMIYYA POSTER
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04 December 2023
Naples City Council President Enza Amato - on the occasion of her visit to the United States of the World and the Museum of Peace - signed the Kimiyya poster for Women's Rights.
THE HONOURABLE FIOLA SIGNS THE KIMIYYA POSTER
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04 December 2023
The Honourable Bruna Fiola, Regional Councillor of Campania, signed the Kimiyya poster for Women's Rights during a visit to the Museum of Peace.