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MANY WAYS TO HONOUR UN DAY

The world is gearing up for UN Day, and some groups are planning to spread their celebrations over several days. At UN Headquarters, a peace walk, a one-mile run, two concerts, a reading from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and seven minutes of silence devoted to peace will be among the inspiring festivities.

STEPS FOR PEACE

Whether one walks or runs, two upcoming UN Day events offer the world community an opportunity to take a step for peace.

Peace Walk

The annual Peace Walk – a contemplative, nation by nation relay walk through an area of the North Garden – will be held from 12-1:15 PM, Thursday, Friday and Monday, 20-24 October.

Each group of participating nationals, sometimes led by their Ambassador, will carry the preamble of the United Nations Charter during a two minute procession through the Rose Garden. An international lap at 1:15 PM on 24 October will unite nationals of all countries in a tribute to the UN’s aspirations for peace. ..  read more…

One-Mile Peace Run

For UN walkers, joggers and 1992 Olympic hopefuls, the next UN ONE MILE PEACE RUN will be held Thursday, 27 October at 1:15 on the East River Promenade in the UN Garden. ..read more

Seven Minutes of World Peace

On UN Day, individuals, groups and organizations around the world simultaneously join in seven minutes of silence to share the spirit of peace on earth. This initiative, now in its fifth year, is called Seven Minutes of World Peace. Around the globe, the observance corresponds to 1 :00 to 1 :07 PM Eastern Daylight Time at UN Headquarters (18:00 to 18:07 Greenwich Mean Time).

Seven Minutes of World Peace will be observed at Headquarters in the Rose Garden, before the international lap of the Peace Walk…read more

UN Day Concerts

The traditional evening UN Day Concert, intended primarily for delegates and senior staff, features Dame Joan Sutherland with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The concert will be broadcast over public television on Wednesday, 26 October.

An afternoon c0ncert, presented by the Cultural Society, is open to all and features pianist Suzanne McCormick. It will take place in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium on the 24th from 1-2 p.m.

UN Day Themes

While no one theme has been selected for this year’s UN Day. some organizations plan to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The UN NGO Liaison Service has centred much of its attention on this theme and, as one result, the Southern New York Division of UNA-USA is hosting a public UN Day observance in the Visitors’ Lobby on 26 October at 12:00 noon.

Mrs. Mario Cuomo, First Lady of New York State,

will read a portion of the Declaration of Human Rights.l

UNA-USA has been particularly active in planning UN Day Activities.

Nearly 1,000 communities around the United States are planning UN Day observances. …Read more

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Computer literacy, anyone?

For those who wish to gain basic computer literacy, only to discover that the UN’s “Introduction to Personal Computer… The Training Service has established a personal computer self-learning lab,…read more

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YOU COULD BE THE ONE

This story appears in New Fables (Thus Spoke the Caribou), by Kurt Kauter. “Tell me the weight of a snowflake,” a coalmouse [a small bird] asked a wild dove. “Nothing more than nothing,” was the answer. “In that case, I must tell you a marvelous story,” the coalmouse said. “I sat on the branch of a fir, close to its trunk, when it began to snow – not heavily, not in a raging blizzard – no, just like a dream, without a wind, without any violence.

Since I did not have anything better to do,  I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and needles of my branch. Their number was exactly 3,741,952. When the 3,741 ,953rd dropped onto the branch, nothing more than nothing as you say, the branch broke off.” Having said that, the coalmouse flew away.

The dove, since Noah’s time an authority on the matter, thought about the story for awhile, and finally said to herself,

“Perhaps there is only one person’s voice lacking for peace to come to the world.”

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is published by Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations.

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