Archive for October, 2009

The Shared Space of Human Rights and Religious Freedom.

26.10.09

This project on Human Rights Education is implemented by the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) in partenershìp with the People’s Decade for Human Rights Education (PDHRE), and the financial support of the Governments of the Nederlands and Japan.

This project has been implemented in India, Bangladesh, and THe Philippines. Its main goal is to creat in selected communities, understandinf of freedom of religion and belief as a basic human right guaranteed in the National Constitution, the United Nations Declaration of Universal Human Right (UDHR) and teh Declaration of the Elimination of Intolerance and Discrimination based on Religion or Belief (DEIDRB).

www.iarf.net

ARC/UNDP*CELEBRATION OF FAITH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

26.10.09

Faith leaders from around the world will meet at Windsor, United Kingdom, from 2 to 4 November 2009, at an event hosted by Prince Philip and attended by the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon to discuss and announce their long term initiatives to Protect the Living Planet.

* Alliance of Religions and Conservation – United Nations Development Programme

Windsor, 15 October 2009

http://www.windsor2009.org/

The UN Secretary-General issues his report on “Interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace”, which in its chapter IV refers to the possibility of proclaiming a United Nations Decade on this matter

16.10.09

New York, 24 August 2009

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