Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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Stand Up and Stand Together Against Corruption Transparency International of the Republic of South Africa is part of an international network against corruption. The aim of the organization is to mobilize and empower different role players to contribute to a broad-ranging strategy for integrity against corruption in the public sector, the private sector, and all organizations of civil society. Transparency International - South Africa REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
International Earth Charter Campaign The Earth Charter is a concise and inspiring declaration of global interdependence and universal responsibility with a special emphasis on sustainable living and sustainable development. The Charter affirms that we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny, and it upholds that everyone shares responsibility for the present and future well-being of humanity and the greater community of life. The Earth Charter is an urgent call for a major transformation in our ways of relating to the larger living world and one another. The document recognizes the interdependence of humanity's environmental, economic, social, moral, and spiritual goals. The Charter provides individuals, families, civil society, business, and government with a much needed integrated ethical vision for building a free, just, participatory, sustainable, and peaceful world. The Earth Charter initiative is part of the global ethics movement. It reflects the emerging global consensus on common goals and shared values, and it seeks to give expression to principles of enduring significance that are valid for people of all cultures, religions, races, and nations. For over a decade, hundreds of groups throughout the world have endeavored to create an EarthCharter. Today an Earth Charter Commission and the Earth Council in Costa Rica oversee the International Earth Charter Campaign, with over forty-five national Earth Charter committees at work in the different regions of the world. The principles of the Earth Charter draw upon international law, science, philosophy, religion, and the major United Nations summit meetings of the last decade as well as the International Earth Charter conversation on global ethics. The Charter will be circulated worldwide as a people's treaty in an effort to promote education, commitment, and implementation of Earth Charter values. The document will be submitted to the United Nations General Assembly for its endorsement in the year 2002, which is the tenth anniversary of the UN Rio Earth Summit. Earth Charter International Drafting Committee USA
Thanksgiving World Assembly In November 1997, the United Nations General Assembly declared the year 2000 an International Year of Thanksgiving. The Center For World ThanksGiving initiated this request, working closely with the nation of Argentina and the ECOSOC nations. In March 1999, as a first global response to this year of Thanksgiving, people of many religions and cultures gathered in Dallas, Texas for the Thanksgiving World Assembly. Thirty-three nations from five continents were represented in discussions on the healing and uniting spirit of Thanksgiving within and amongst religions, and brought forth a common understanding of future visions of the world for a new century and a new millennium. The Center dedicates its final summary and study of the gathering, and particularly the delegate's Call for Action, as a Gift of Service to the World. Thanks-Giving Square Foundation USA
Integrity For Nonviolence: Walk our Talk Integrity For Nonviolence holds workshops to develop strategies and interventions that create nonviolent zones within the workplace, within organizations, and within our communities. Integrity For Nonviolence is a values-centered process dedicated to the elimination of violence through putting nonviolent values into practice. Integrity For Nonviolence USA
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