75th COMMEMORATIVE ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ
THE U.S. PEOPLE ARE CONFLICTED ABOUT WHAT HATE SPEECH IS.
SEVGİN OKTAY
FRIENDLY HEADS-UP: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
Report by Sevgin OKTAY, Representative of The Light Millennium to the United Nations Department of Global Communications
• RUN-DOWN and Welcoming • PHOTO Album of the Workshop | • BOOKLET with Bios (Abstract included) | • FLYER • MEDIA Release (Updated on August 19, 2019) | • Photo Album
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“As new channels for hate speech are reaching wider audiences than ever at lightning speed, we all – the United Nations, governments, technology companies, educational institutions – need to step up our response.”
– UN Secretary General António Guterres
Paper presentation by Sevgin OKTAY, Representative of The Light Millennium to the United Nations Department of Global Communications
Workshop titled: GREAT GOALS, UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: How to handle the complexity of our technology, and make true progress for our social and environmental well being
[Read more…] about “HOW TO PREVENT THE PROLIFERATION OF HATE SPEECH WITHIN THE CONTOURS OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH…In Memoriam THE LAST ARMENIAN
by Abdullah Ayata
(translated by Emre Serbest)
Inspired by a true story, an epic story of individual and communal love and respect accompanied by tragedy of people of different ethnicities living side by side and together in central Anatolia facing the elements of life that challenge the ying & yang of life.
Book Review by: Sevgin OKTAY
[Read more…] about In Memoriam THE LAST ARMENIANI TOO NOW STATE THAT I AM A FEMINIST WITH THE HOPE THAT MANY OTHERS WILL ALSO FOLLOW
CONFERENCE ON
PEACE, WOMEN, SECURITY & SECULARISM
Towards the 19th Anniversary of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women and Peace and Security
and
in support of SDGs #5, #16 and #17
by Sevgin OKTAY, Representative of The Light Millennium to the UN Department of Global Communications
[Read more…] about I TOO NOW STATE THAT I AM A FEMINIST WITH THE HOPE THAT MANY OTHERS WILL ALSO FOLLOWCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION FOR A TEACHER: HAYDAR GÖFER
I had a ball visiting my home country Turkey last month- mostly the schools where I had spent perhaps the happiest times of my life. What prompted the trip was the end of the centennial and the beginning of the 101st birthday celebration of one of my favorite teachers at Tarsus American College (TAC), Haydar Göfer. I had missed the beginning of the 100th year in February of last year.
by Sevgin OKTAY TAC’54
A GIANT PASSES ON – ŞÜKRÜ SERVER AYA
Obituary
“Ben giderim adım kalır
Dostlar beni hatırlasın
Düğün olur bayram gelir
Dostlar beni hatırlasın
Can kafeste durmaz uçar
Dünya bir han konan göçer
Ay dolanır yıllar geçer
Dostlar beni hatırlasın
Can bedenden ayrılacak
Tütmez baca yanmaz ocak
Selam olsun kucak kucak”
– A poem by Aşık Veysel (1894 – 1973)
“EMPATHETIC SPEECH” PROPOSAL AS THE 18th GOAL IN THE 2030 AGENDA
2018 NGO REPORT
By SEVGIN OKTAY, The Light Millennium
NGO Representative to the United Nations Department of Public Information
I am pleased to report that during my first year as a Light Millennium NGO Representative to the UN/DPI, not only did I learn quite a few things from my attendance of several conferences, but I hope I was also able to contribute some ideas for the benefit of the United Nations as well as public at large. [Read more…] about “EMPATHETIC SPEECH” PROPOSAL AS THE 18th GOAL IN THE 2030 AGENDA
Kitap Söyleşi: SANATIN LABİRENTLERİNDEN ~ IŞIK YOLLARINA…
Etkinlik Kitap Söyleşi & Imza Günü
Medya Bülteni | Tarih: 24 Eylül 2018
13-ekim-davetiye-kitap-soylesi-renkli (pdf)
Etkinlik Tarihi: Cumartesi, 13 Ekim 2018, New York
SANATIN LABİRENTLERİNDEN ~ IŞIK YOLLARINA…
Sanat üzerine Söyleşiler ve Denemeler (2016) & Şiir ve Şiirsel Günceler (2017);
Kitaplarının New York’taki ilk Tanıtım, Söyleşi, ve İmza gününe davetlisiniz…
Bircan Ünver’in IŞIK YOLLARINDA ~ İçindeki ışığı arayan tüm yeryüzü dostlarına… adlı kitabı, “Dünya Şiddetsizlik ve Barış” için “pasif direniş“in babası olan Mahatma Gandhi’nin doğum gününde 2 Ekim 2017 tarihinde çıkmıstır!
Bu etkinlik, aynı zamanda, IŞIK YOLLARINDA kitabının 1. basım yıldönümü olacaktır.
13-ekim-kitap-tanitim-save-the-date [Read more…] about Kitap Söyleşi: SANATIN LABİRENTLERİNDEN ~ IŞIK YOLLARINA…
TOWARDS PEOPLE-CENTERED MULTILATERAL COOPERATION IN A SPIRIT OF GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
67th Annual UN.DPI/NGO Conference
United Nations Head Quarters New York | 22-23 August 2018
Highlights from the: Opening Plenary Session, Round Tables & Open Forum
