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Marking the 100th anniversary of the First Hague International Peace Conference, hundreds of organisations and thousands of people from all over the world will come together in The Hague from May 11 to 15th, to create “The Hague Agenda for Peace and Justice” for the 21st Century. Civil Society, Governments and international organisations will review peace and justice initiatives of this century towards a renewed partnership to determine how we can take the next steps for a more peaceful twenty-first century. The five day conference will have the participation of eminent personalities such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Prize winner Jody Williams and Graca Machel, as well as leaders of the UN system such as Federico Mayor, director general of Unesco and experts in the field of law and justice. As one of the conference’s sponsors, the Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation will also offer a peace concert by the United Peace Voices, to include special peace messages for the world and Lama Gangchen will be holding daily meditations for world peace. «When humanity invests in the force of law instead of the law of force, when governments ratify the new International Criminal Court statute, the land-mines treaty and a nuclear weapons convention, and when humanity commits itself to the implementation of these and already existing treaties prohibiting genocide, racial discrimination, environmental degradation, colonialism, and other human rights violations - in short “all human right for all” - only then can we begin to feel secure in the knowledge that we and our children and grandchildren can look forward to a world of peace with justice. It is time to abolish war; peace is a human right» For Information see www.haguepeace.org |
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