“Women have fulfilled their responsibilities with humility and human dignity and strong spirituality. I have personally witnessed these heroic and sacrificial contributions in my native country of Zambia and Southern Africa region during decades of the fight for freedom and independence from colonial and racist domination, Victory and liberation would not have been won without the vigilant and steadfast contributions of women in these nations and region.”
On the Occasion of the 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Side Event on WOMEN’S EQUALITY AND EMPOWERMENT ADVANCES THE CULTURE OF PEACE Organized by Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to the United Nations In collaboration with Global Movement for the Culture of Peace (GMCoP)
“We should always remember that without peace, development is impossible, and without development, peace is not achievable, but without women, neither peace nor development is conceivable.”
Keynote Speech* by Ambassador Anwarul K. CHOWDHURY Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations; Initiator of UNSCR 1325 as President of UN Security Council and Founder of the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace (GMCoP)
at the P R O G R A M M E on PEACE, WOMEN, SECURITY & SECULARISM presented by the The Light Millennium and Co-Organizer/Co-Sponsors New York, 11 April 2019
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 the SDGs#5, #16 and #17
Selected Quotes:
“Peace must be made Real and tangible in daily existence of daily individual in need.”
“Rougly 100 magnats have large major of wealth and exacerbates malnutrition and extreme poverty.”
“According to calculation 4.408 billion people are direct victim of inequalities and exclusion around world.”
“It is estimated that in the next 10 years, 10 trillion dollars will be invested in the weapon.”
“Recent sources mention the possibility of there even being 15000 nuclear weapons principally controlled by major global power.”
“Peace us an imperative for the survival of the Mankind. It represent the deepest aspiration of men and women through the world”. [Read more…] about “THE CULTURE OF PEACE: A CREDIBLE PATHWAY TO SUSTAINING PEACE”