Youth

When I received an announcement that the World Peace Prayer Society, an NGO at the UN, was having another Peace Pals art competition for children, I immediately thought of the children I see every day in some of the poor neighborhoods of East Jakarta.

What a week it has been, hosting a group of 12 Japanese women from the Sacred Heart school in Sapporo for a whirlwind visit to the UN and 91st Street. Yasuko Taguchi, former Headmistress at the Sapporo school and currently its Chaplain, was the mastermind behind and the leader of the trip, having received a grant from the Ministry of Education in Japan.

The UNIS-UN Conference was organized by the United Nations International School (UNIS), and was held on March 7-8, 2013, in New York. The topic was “Youthquake: A Generation's Impact.” Youthquake was the name given in the sixties to a musical and cultural movement where teenagers dominated the fashion and music scene.

The theme of this year’s celebration of World Interfaith Harmony Week was United for a Culture of Peace through Interfaith Harmony and took place in the General Assembly Hall on Thursday February 14, 2013. Around 1,400 persons attended the celebration. Among them were 24 students and faculty members from ...

'MUNSOPHICAL 2011- Ideas for a Better World' was the first Model United Nations Conference (MUN) held at Sophia College for Women, Mumbai (India), on December 9-11, 2011, in collaboration with the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan.