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Montevideo, December 22nd 2024 - 12:50 UTC

Tag: peace

  • Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 07:15 UTC

    International conference for peace development held in Romania

    The conference held with the title of “The Role of Cultural Diplomacy in Approaching the Protracted Conflicts: Culture of Peace through Understanding the Other”

    In Romania where discussions for peace and security of the international community have been actively operated as the presidency of EU in 2019, a peace conference took place for 2days from April 1st with the presence of the heads of state, governments, civil society, and international NGOs registered under the United Nations.

  • Friday, March 29th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

    Colombia: The humanitarian situation worsened, alerted Red Cross

    The report indicates that Venezuelan migrants, as they pass through Colombia, are exposed to extortion and recruitment by various armed groups

    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) presented on Thursday the balance of its main humanitarian concerns in Colombia, highlighting a deterioration of security conditions in the most remote areas of the country. The cases of armed conflicts and the violence that has continued to plague Colombia in recent decades, as well as the recent mass exodus of Venezuelan migrants, showed a complex humanitarian context.

  • Friday, March 22nd 2019 - 21:52 UTC

    Peace advocate organization HWPL to discuss Global Peace Building in Bucharest

    According to the organizing group, this conference focuses on cultural diplomacy to ”generate mutual trust and establish avenues for better communication through creating, transmitting and promoting r

    On the 30th anniversary of the collapse of dictatorship in Eastern Europe and Romanian presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), a comprehensive approach to peacebuilding with a network and cooperation from governments and civil society groups will be discussed with 200 participants from different sectors in Bucharest, Romania, and organized by UN ECOSOC member Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL).


  • Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 18:59 UTC

    World Peace devoted NGO connects states and citizens for peaceful development in Asia-Pacific

    Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW)’s agenda includes the prohibition of the use of force, development of friendly relations, and peaceful dispute settlement

    As an international NGO associated with the UN ECOSOC, Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) works to connect states and citizens
 for peaceful development in Asia and the Pacific. Based on South Korea, where the recent scent of peace sprang out, the NGO focuses on 3 unique approaches to peacebuilding.

  • Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 08:39 UTC

    Risk of return to violence if a hard Brexit is imposed, says Irish president Higgins

    “When there was a hard border in place it encouraged an extraordinary level of violence and killings. I agree with the Taoiseach … it is a risk we should not take.”

    Irish President Michael D Higgins has said he shares the concerns of the country’s premier Leo Varadkar that there is a risk of a return to violence if a hard border is imposed post-Brexit. Mr Higgins said: “I do share the Taoiseach’s concern.”