The imperative of ‘working together’ animates “The Secretary General’s Five-Year Action Agenda” UN SG 5 Year Action Agenda presented by Mr. Ban Ki-moon on January 25, 2012, where he includes among the “enablers” “harnessing the full power of partnership across the range of UN activities”. Read More..

Two consultations to the member states were conducted by DESA on behalf of the UN Secretary-General in 2009 and 2011 about the convenience of proclaiming a “UN Decade of Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue and Cooperation for Peace”.1 Although the idea found support from many countries, the European Union as a block opposed, arguing that the UN could play a facilitating role in the field of intercultural and interreligious dialogue, but should not lead such a dialogue. Since this kind of resolutions is normally adopted by consensus, the suggested UN Decade is likely to remain for some time not politically viable within the General Assembly.

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Yasmine El-Rashidi,
Friday January 7 2011

Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as ‘shields’ to Egypt ’s threatened Christian community

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The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed on 15 October 2010 the first week of February as “World Interfaith Harmony Week”. The King of Jordan promoted that resolution which was adopted by unanimity. In its core paragraph the resolution.
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Religious leaders from diverse faiths are gathering once again before the G8 meeting of political leaders which this time will be held on 25-27 June in Canada. In this occasion the religious leaders will send a unified message to the political leaders calling them to do their best for achieving the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations the year 2000.

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On 16-18 March 2010 the Philippines hosted the Special Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial Meeting on Interfaith Dialogue and Cooperation (SNAMMM) with the participation of over 120 foreign delegations.

The SNAMMM addressed the existing, new and emerging challenges to the promotion of a culture of peace and development.  It also reaffirmed that the common fundamental values contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration of freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature, and shared responsibility are essential to international relations.

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On 7 December 2009 the General Assembly of the United Nations approved once again a resolution (A/RES/64/81) labeled “Promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace”.
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The 2009 Parliament of World’s Religions -the most important interfaith event of the year- took place in Melbourne, Australia, on 3-9 December 2009. With over 6,000 participants from all over the world, the Parliament was a forum for presenting and discussing a large variety of matters in its seven plenary sessions and hundreds of specialized parallel sessions. The DECADE Initiative was present at the Parliament through three main channels: A brief presentation at one of the plenary sessions, a symposium of two sessions, and the wide distribution of a brochure. (See The Video)

The United Nations Climate Conference will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 7 to 9 December 2009. The TckTckTck project is a global alliance of civil society organizations, trade unions and faith groups calling for a fair, ambitious and binding climate change agreement at that conference.

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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/