AFR.E.S.H. representatives played a pivotal role in the event, contributing to inspiring experiences and insights. Check the videos below:

Learn more: https://www.new-humanity.org/en/project/afr-e-s-h/

L'articolo AFR.E.S.H. participants are protagonists of global event to foster peace and unity proviene da New Humanity.

L'articolo Summer school cultivates leadership across Africa and Europe proviene da New Humanity.

Climate change is getting worse: we have seen floods, heavy storms, fires, desertification, soil erosion, air and water pollution, and other natural disasters increasing.

Having a wider vision and understanding that we can create networks with people, organizations and institutions, allows us to make greater efforts to leave a better living place for present and future generations and try to reach net-zero Emission.

As part of the Pathways of Planet, People and our Ecological Conversion, we want to share some insights and commitments in this COP 26.

This webinar is an open space for those who are interested and want to know more about COP 26, understand our role in this conference and how we can act locally.

The two main speakers, Dr Lorna Gold and Tillie Palmer will answer some questions about it.

Follow the webinar on the United World Project YouTube Channel

L'articolo COP 26 | INSIGHTS AND COMMITMENTS proviene da New Humanity.

With the theme, “Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health”, we find the direction we have set and the efforts we have poured this year in the same breath as today’s invitation. A few months ago, we launched #DareToCare: People, Planet, and Our Ecological Conversion, a global campaign that appeals to recognize and respond to the cry of our ailing planet. With the recent extreme weather conditions felt across the globe, there is no denying that we are under a worsening climate crisis, one that cannot be detached from other crises that we are experiencing today including poverty as well as in the area of health and food quality and supply, among others. Acknowledging that everything is interrelated, we have understood that care for the earth and care for others are inseparable. We cannot remain aloof anymore nor can we set it aside. This is not the time to be bystanders. This is the time to stand together and roll up our sleeves because in spite of the numerous differences we may have, we have one common home and we have a shared responsibility to take care of it.

We commend the choice of the theme for this year’s celebration geared towards what is close to the heart of many young people and the reality we face at present. While this occasion reminds us that young people – ever passionate, creative, and dauntless – can lead the way to a better world, one generation cannot do it all alone. We must not be afraid to tap collaborators and forge partnerships so that our local initiatives will have a wider and lasting, global impact. After all, we are all children of the earth and the concern of the earth is the concern of everyone, no exceptions.

As a partner of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and as an accredited observer of the United Nations Environmental Programme, we remain steadfast in our commitment to ensure human and planetary well-being and we are willing to exhaust all possible means on our part towards this cause. Driven by care, we invite everyone, especially the young people, to take a step back by reviewing one’s lifestyle (including one’s consumption and activity) and its impact on our planet and make a move forward by organizing and providing aid for projects such as those under the United World Project held in different parts of the world, be involved or amplify support in policy-making, and calling private sector to shift its production and way of doing business to those sympathetic to the planet.

A rise in global temperature of even 2 degrees is more than enough to threaten food and water security, the economy, and other aspects of human life. We call upon governments to vigorously uphold and stay true to their commitment of effectively reducing greenhouse gas emissions as stated in the Paris Agreement and act on it with great urgency. Likewise, we appeal that all citizens find themselves contributing and cooperating in favor of this endeavor. May all of us be strenuous protagonists in our pursuit of a more sustainable world for the sake of the common good, of our common home.

Gio Francisco

United World Ambassador, Philippines

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It contains the report by the President of the NGO and the financial report for the year 2019, followed by the list of New Humanity’s main activities carried out in 2019.

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L'articolo New Humanity 2019 Activities Report is Available proviene da New Humanity.

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L'articolo Partnership Agreement Signed Between New Humanity and FAO to Work Together for the Good of Humanity proviene da New Humanity.

World Water Day

For the 2019 World Water Day, Azione Mondo Unito (AMU) – an asscoiated organisation to New Humanity – was invited to FAO to talk about its experience in the daily challenge to see the right to water recognized in a concrete and substantial way, through free, widespread and safe access.

Read more on the AMU website

L'articolo New Humanity NGO presented to FAO its experience on the Right to Water proviene da New Humanity.

Discover the stories of Robert, Cecilia, Mike, Priya… and of many other teens from every corner of the earth who dream and fighting for a world #ZeroHunger.

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«This book tells us that the way kids look at hunger and think of it is not way adults do. They see economic goods from a perspective of relationships much more than we do. They are more sensitive to inequality, they give little importance to money, they are generous».
(from Luigino Bruni’s preface)

Collaboration between FAO and New Humanity. This activity book published by New Humanity in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) starts from the observation that the world needs us, our ideas, our promises, our actions.

Common Goal. The book highlights the actions of so many great young people who are committed globally to this common goal: transforming the world into a more just place, without people suffering from hunger and poverty.

International Display. The text you find there has a mainly educational and formative purpose. Through the format of an International Meeting, many children from all 5 continents share true stories, personal and concrete experiences that show their choices and actions, the good habits they carry out in their daily lives and the promise of a firm commitment for the future.

Like a rainbow, made up of different colors, reaches the same endpoint, the book identifies 8 paths to follow in order to reach a #ZeroHunger world.

4 Pathways. This first volume presents 4 pathways in depth; each one deals with an issue linked to hunger and highlights some aspects where every human being could improve.

The book can be read alone or in a group and is suitable for moments of reflection and sharing either at school or in the family or with groups of friends. Each chapter contains an activity or a game with the purpose of stimulating reflection.

Enjoy the reading!

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Download the book (Prijelom nula gladi.pdf – Croatian Version)

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Zbirka knjiga „Generacija Nula gladi, djeca na putu prema svijetu bez gladi”

Otkrij priče Roberta, Cecilije, Mikea, Priya … i mnoge druge djece iz najrazličitijih krajeva svijeta koji sanjaju i bore se za svijet #Nula gladi.

Preuzmi knjigu

„Ova nam knjiga govori da način na koji dječaci i djevojčice gledaju na glad nije isti kao način odraslih. Oni, mnogo više od nas, ekonomska dobra vide unutar odnosa. Osjetljiviji su na nejednakost, daju manju važnost novcu, velikodušni su“.

(iz predgovora Luigina Brunija)

Suradnja FAO i New Humanity. Ova zbirka knjiga koju je objavilo New Humanity u suradnji s Organizacijom ujedinjenih naroda za prehranu i poljoprivredu (FAO) polazi od spoznaje da nas svijet treba, naše ideje, naša obećanja i naša djela.

Zajednički cilj. Knjiga naglašava djelovanje tog sjajnog tima mladih koji su globalno predani ovom zajedničkom cilju: pretvoriti svijet u pravednije mjesto, gdje neće biti ljudi koji pate od gladi i siromaštva.

Međunarodna izložba. Tekst koji ovdje nalazite ima uglavnom obrazovnu i formativnu funkciju. Preko međunarodnih susreta prenose se istinite priče, osobni i konkretni događaji mnogih mladih s pet kontinenata: odabiri i postupci koje su ostvarili, dobre navike koje svakodnevno provode i obećanje stalne predanosti za budućnost.

Poput duge, sastavljena od različitih boja, doseže istu točku, knjiga identificira osam stazica kojima treba ići do ostvarenja svijeta #Nula gladi.

Četiri stazice. U ovom prvom svesku produbljene su četiri, svaka se bavi problemom gladi i ističe neke aspekte koje bi svako ljudsko biće moglo poboljšati.

Knjigu možemo čitati sami ili u grupi i prikladna je za trenutke razmišljanja i dijeljenja u školi, s obitelji ili s grupama prijatelja. Na kraju svakog poglavlja predlaže se aktivnost/igra s određenim  smjernicama za poticanje razmišljanja.

Ugodno čitanje i sve najbolje!

Download the book (Prijelom nula gladi.pdf – Croatian Version)

L'articolo New Humanity and FAO Publish the Activity Book With Good Practices of Teens of the “Zero Hunger Generation” proviene da New Humanity.

The yearly meeting of the New Humanity central Governing Council and representatives from other countries just ended. It worked on a review of the 2018-2020 strategy and the response that the NGO can offer to meet some of the greatest current challenges in the world, among which: fighting hunger, the migration issue, the engagement of young people and of the African continent.

Dialogue with the Civil Society. As a follow-up to the conference on Co-Governance co-organized by New Humanity last January, this year’s assembly included an afternoon of reflection with Fanny Bava and Luca Moser, heads of the New Humanity Movement for active citizenship (part of the New Humanity umbrella), and Mario Tancredi, who is reponsible for the Dialogue with  Contemporary Culture in the Focolare Movement.

Openness and Active Citizenship. Important contributions and ideas from all over the world were presented on how to continue a shared path of openness to society and practices of active citizenship inspired by the spirituality of the Focolare.

2020 Strategy. The meeting also gave the opportunity to review the progress on the implementation of the New Humanity strategy, especially the promotion of a Sustainable Development, the full protection of all Human Rights and Education to the culture of peace at international level, in the New Humanity offices in Rome, New York, Paris and Geneva.

Current challenges. The sharing and reflection highlighted the main challenges that the NGO is facing this year, as well as the initiatives that New Humanity is promoting in order to meet them.

•    Fighting hunger in the world. Since last year, New Humanity and the Youth and Teens for Unity Movement have been collaborating on the FAO Zero Hunger initiative. Thousands of children and teenagers from all over the world who are members of the Movement participate in awareness and commitment programs on how to reduce food waste. New initiatives are being studied for the current year.

•    Migration and Human Rights. New Humanity is continuing its commitment to promote the respect for all fundamental rights of the human person – with priority for the weakest and the migrants – and the collaboration with the NGO Committee on Migration that recently highlighted the New Humanity Host-Spot Project among the good practices mentioned in the report on “Polices, practices and partnerships to promote the implementation of the global agreement on migrations”.

•    The Yoth and Africa. New Humanity continues to give great priority to the involvement of young people in international decision-making processes, with particular attention to the African continent. A series of initiatives are being studied, with the involvement of the young people of New Humanity in view of the UNESCO 2020 Forum on global citizenship and on peace. Another project that is receiving an increasingly great international support and attention is Back to Africa, promoted by some young African leaders.

Report on the Activities. The members of the General Assembly also submitted the 2018 Activity Report and planned the future activities together.

Guests and special mentions. During the Assembly, Marco Aquini, a historic pioneer of New Humanity who left us recently, was remembered in a special way. The Assembly also welcomed some representatives of the “European Focolare” project in Brussels, who are exploring ways of sharing the priorities and inspiring principles of the Focolare and New Humanity in the European institutions’ environment

L'articolo New Humanity 2019 Assembly: Open Dialogue on our Work for a New Humanity proviene da New Humanity.

Civil Society Forum

Paul Catipon, President and CEO of Netpro Communications Inc. presented the experience of his company and of the Economy of Communion, at the International Forum for Social Development at the United Nations.

Watch Paul Catipon’s intervention

The Economy of Communion (EoC) involves entrepreneurs, workers, managers, consumers, savers, citizens, scholars, economic operators — all committed, at various levels, to promoting an economic culture and practices based on communion, gratuity and reciprocity, by proposing and living a lifestyle alternative to the dominant one in the capitalist system. It reflects the vision of New Humanity in the economic field.

Netpro, a US-based communications and security systems company, has taken inspiration from the Economy of Communion principles of relationship and reciprocity since it was founded nine years ago.

Winning values. “Based on those values – Paul Catipon said during his speech – during the 2012 recession I hired a few people who couldn’t find work (…) That opportunity was the springboard for them to contribute to the development of our company in a surprisingly innovative way.”

Universal values. Paul Catipon used his professional experience to underline the value of the Economy of Communion proposal from various points of view:

•    The EoC is a real, operating sustainable model.
•    The EoC focuses on engaging those in need bringing out the best in everyone and developing new skills and self-esteem in each member of the company
•    The EoC encourages a new shared culture of giving, seeing the others as brothers and sisters who needs our help, but also can help us

Human values. “This culture of giving upon which the Economy of Communion is based – Paul Catipon concluded – might seem difficult, ambitious, heroic, but it is not so, because human beings… find their fulfillment in loving, in giving.”

The Civil Society Forum was planned by the NGO Committee on Social Development, with the purpose to create an inclusive dialogue and foster cooperation between Member States, Civil Society and the United Nations, and to unify behind a common vision in furtherance of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Private sector. The New Humanity intervention was particularly appreciated, as it brought into the debate the contribution of a protagonist from the private sector.

(Photos by http://webtv.un.org)

L'articolo A company which is part of the Economy of Communion presented its experience at the UN Civil Society Forum proviene da New Humanity.