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“The peoples of our planet have a sacred right to Peace!”
UN Declaration on the Rights of People to Peace
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“A culture of peace is a set values, attitudes, traditions and modes of behavior and ways of life based on ……”
UN General Assembly Declaration on a Culture of Peace
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“Poverty is a threat to Peace!”
Mohammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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“Poverty and Human Need – The True Enemies of Peace in The 21st Century”
Oscar Arias, 1987 Nobel Laureate, President of Costa Rica 1986-1990
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“We all know that misery will extinguish hope, leaving behind a powder keg!”
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World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP(global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
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World Military Spending
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Worldwide Military Expenditures
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UN Office of Disarmament Affairs
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Fact Sheet for the International Day for Peace - Costs of War and Peace
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(Military Spending) Poverty Campaigners take on War Spending
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“Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things are connected.”
Chief Seattle
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“We the indigenous peoples walk to the future in the footsteps of our ancestors. From the smallest to the largest living beings, from the four directions, from the air, the lands and the mountains, the creator has placed us, the indigenous peoples upon our mother the Earth!”
Indigenous Peoples Earth Charter 1992
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“Indigenous Peoples make up one third of the world’s 900 million extremely poor rural people. Any effort to eradicate poverty must therefore address the special needs of these minority ethnic groups.”
Fact Sheet on Indigenous Peoples
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“Toronto (’s) residents come from over 200 countries and speak more than 90 languages and dialects or belong to over 90 religious or faith communities.”
David Miller, Mayor of City of Toronto, the most culturally diverse city on Earth!
City of Toronto Proclamation
UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity
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“No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948
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“Since Confederation in 1867, First Nations have been subject to repeated attempts by the Government of Canada to forcibly assimilate us and erase our identities. Still we survive today as distinct peoples.”
- National Chief Phil Fontaine
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First Nations National Day of Action June 29, 2007
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A Special Breed of Educators
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Cultural Diversity: Towards a whole Society!
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What is Diversity? Diversity is each of us and all of us!
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World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
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Cultural Diversity in Motion
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Images and Voices of Hope!
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Re-Patterning Global Warming
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Dr. Vivian Darroch-Lozowski
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Surrendering to the Embrace of the Universe!
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“We do not want to live in a country where people cannot find a descent job because of the color of their skin.
We do not want to live in a country where people have trouble being served in private establishments because of the color of their skin.
We do not want to live in a country where people have trouble finding housing because of the color of their skin.
Yet, some of these situations still occur today.”
- Governor General
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“Human beings are born free, yet everywhere they are in chains.”
- Archbishop of Canterbury
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“Ignorance and Greed are stepping stones on the way to a Glorious Earth”
- T. Kofi Hadjor, Founder of Universe Africa
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“We Shall Overcome”
President Lydon B. Johnson
Speech to the United States Congress
March 15, 1965
“Many of the issues of civil rights are very complex and most difficult. But about this there can and should be no argument: every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to insure that right. Yet the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes.
Every device of which human ingenuity is capable, has been used to deny this right. The Negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong, or the hour is late, or the official in charge is absent. And if he persists and, if he manages to present himself to the registrar, he may be disqualified because he did not spell out his middle name, or because he abbreviated a word on the application. And if he manages to fill out an application, he is given a test. The registrar is the sole judge of whether he passes this test. He may be asked to recite the entire Constitution, or explain the most complex provisions of state law.
And even a college degree cannot be used to prove that he can read and write. For the fact is that the only way to pass these barriers is to show a white skin. Experience has clearly shown that the existing process of law cannot overcome systematic and ingenious discrimination. No law that we now have on the books, and I have helped to put three of them there, can insure the right to vote when local officials are determined to deny it. In such a case, our duty must be clear to all of us.”
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