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GEIFN | AWAKENING | Peace in Uncertain Times | Monday 21 September 2020

ACKNOWLEDGING

We acknowledge traditional inhabitants of Cities of Port Phillip and Glen Eira are the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation. Respect is offered to past, present and future elders of all spiritual traditions. May we find together a generous way to accommodate those in need of refuge. Let us be cool, strive individually and together to overcome inequality, violence, disengagement, tragedy and injustice wherever it may be. Let us honour, savor and enjoy results of mindful effort so more thrive peacefully with less effort in our place called home.

[This is a curated presentation from information in public domain.]

COMMEMORATING | United Nations International Day of Peace | 21 September

The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the Day as a period of non-violence and cease-fire.

The United Nations invites all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities during the Day, and to otherwise commemorate the Day through education and public awareness on issues related to peace.

COVID-19 is a global health crisis unlike any other — one that is spreading human suffering, destabilizing the global economy and upending the lives of billions of people around the globe. Vulnerable populations in countries with weaker health systems, facing existing humanitarian crises are at great risk. The United Nations is committed to ensuring all people have access to all the tools to defeat COVID-19. Global solidarity is not only a moral imperative, it is in everyone’s interests.

Read More about UN International Day of Peace 21 September



UPDATING | UNHCR’s Forcibly Displaced People Figures at a Glance

At least 79.5 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes. Among them are nearly 26 million refugees, around half of whom are under the age of 18.

There are also millions of stateless people, who have been denied a nationality and lack access to basic rights such as education, health care, employment and freedom of movement.

At a time when 1 per cent of the world’s population have fled their homes as a result of conflict or persecution.

As of 31 May 2020 UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) employed 17,324 people, of whom around nearly 90 per cent are based in the field.

UNHCR works in 135 countries, with personnel based in a mixture of regional and branch offices and sub and field offices. Our teams work hard to help the displaced, specializing in a wide range of disciplines, including legal protection, administration, community services, public affairs and health.

Funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions, with 86 per cent from governments and the European Union. Three per cent comes from other inter-governmental organizations and pooled funding mechanisms, while a further 10 per cent is from the private sector, including foundations, corporations and the public. Additionally, UNHCR receives a limited subsidy (one per cent) from the UN budget for administrative costs, and accept in-kind contributions, including items such as tents, medicines and trucks.


RECONCILING | If we can imagine the injustice, then we can imagine its opposite. And we can have justice.



RECONCILIATION | Imagine 




ENGAGING | Privilege, Inequality, Equity and Society


The girl who lost her face: A story of courage and friendship in a remarkable clinic for victims of acid attacks in Bangladesh. Many of the staff are survivors of acid attacks themselves. Giles Duley, a journalist injured on assignment in Afghanistan several years ago visited the clinic in the capital Dhaka to tell the story of a young victim rebuilding her life and the team helping her.

They are the children of criminals. Their parents are doing time in Chinese prisons, some serving life sentences for horrific crimes. With no one to care for them and nowhere to go, Sun Village, a shelter in Beijing, takes them in

Millions of refugees travelled to Germany, among them thousands of LGBT people. They're fleeing not only conflict, but persecution in countries like Iraq and Syria where being gay can get you killed. Shaunagh Connaire discovered that for some gay refugees the hatred and danger they faced in the Middle East has pursued them all the way to Germany.

Filipino nurses make up an outsized portion of the nursing workforce. About one-third of all foreign-born nurses in the US are Filipino. Since 1960, 150,000 Filipino nurses have come to work in the US. And that’s because over the past century the US built a pipeline that draws nurses from the Philippines every time it faces a shortage. This system began in the early 20th century when the US invaded and colonized the Philippines and lives on through today. 



SUPPORTING | Global Engagement in Friendlier Neighbourhoods 

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