Never underestimate your abilities to reach your full potential.
Remember defining yourself is a highly personal process!So, always pursue your GRIT personality trait fight the social construction attitude and stand for the rights of the most vulnerable/voiceless because justice does eventually prevail in the end. Resistance is overcome by patient persistence, like water wears away the hardest stone…!
I'm JP and have been involved in humanitrian nitiatives since I was 10. I identify myself as a global citizen. I strongly valuethe Universal declaration of Human Rights charter and believe that Human's peace and security are paramount. That is the reason why I support the ork of the United Nations as it is a unifier of states and populations…with its central mission to restore international peace and ensure security for all . UN is an important and infuriating organisation , but the world wouldn't be the same without it .... It just needs to be better.
Likewise, UN Founding Charter lays out the purposes of the United Nations: Article 1 enumerates them in 4 points: (1)maintain international peace and security, (2) take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means (3) develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and (4) to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace; to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion and to be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.
To achieve these purposes, the United Nations set up UN main organs and bodies, programmes, funds and specialized agencies each one delegated to make concrete steps towards peace and security, as well as respect of international human rights, international law and sustainable development. The work tackles humanitarian aid, food assistance, sustainable tourism, social protection, labour rights, urban development, green economy, gender equality and protection of reproductive rights, education, children’ human and personal development, refugee’s protection, hunger eradication, women economic and social empowerment, freedom of trade, global vaccinations and health issues.
The aim of the United Nations system is to prevent war from happening, restoring security, protecting people and advancing human development and social progress. We all agree that person on Earth should feel protected, this is why the United Nations is called a “family”, where each and every person works and contributes to making other people secure, protected, loved and wanted. Where people can live their lives in freedom, peace and can solidarity work together to give life a meaning, and where all the basic needs are fulfilled.
An ideal world where each and every person has the opportunity to born, eat, study, be loved by a caring family, grow in a protected shelter, have a job that satisfies a person’s professional skills, love and create another family, share experiences and life moments with other people, creating a circle of open minds and hearts where dialogue is the pillar of development, progress and caring for the human beings and the planet earth.
Tolerance, understanding, desire of knowledge, curiosity towards peoples and cultures, open-mindedness towards new things: these feelings can make us move forward in life, giving us the love, passion and motivation to pursue our dreams, thinking, imagining and concretely acting towards the construction of a better word, where everyone is included and where support, teamwork, trust and compassion are the foundation of this new world.
On September 25th the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, a new agenda composed of 17 goals. New challenges ahead, for the next 15 years, where we can all make a contribution and work towards poverty eradication and social, economic inclusion, sustainable use of natural resources and ensure prosperity for all.
In 1945, after the devastation of a world war where more than 60 million people lost their lives, and in a world today where conflicts are still ongoing, and where states cannot agree on peace negotiations and peaceful living as neighbours, we should all stand up and make our voice heard, in a way that our heart speaks as beats as the heart of each human being, where we truly listen to what we all need and share with others the experience of our living on earth. Likewise, the United Nations was formed as an inter-governmental organization designed to prevent future wars between the nations, just as its predecessor, the League of Nations, had done in the aftermath of WWI. The UN, however, took international collaboration a step further by including the coordination of development and “harmonization” activities in its ambit.
Throughout the second half of the twentieth century some 190 nations, including New Zealand, joined the international community and participated to varying degrees, and with varying degrees of enthusiasm and success, in the international machinery of law, social and economic cooperation, and conflict prevention. But the scope of global challenges, and the mechanism for global governance created to address them, expanded rapidly in the second half of the twentieth century, and nations large and small now face complex choices in determining where and how to engage, and for what benefits to their own societies as well as to others.
The ‘benefits’ of “Westphalian” state arrangements are increasingly challenged by the benefits of wider commitments, which imply the diminution of state sovereignty. Responses to global challenges vary from withdrawal in to ‘the protection of national interest’ through to the exploration of cosmopolitan “global governance” arrangements. What is true of the case of New Zealand?
The purpose of this conference is to consider: a) the extent of New Zealand’s current engagement with the UN system; and b) the relationship between pursuit of national interests and the pursuit of the interests of the whole.
New Zealand’s advancement as a nation now depends on the extent to which it values its multi-cultural talents and connections and “brings them home” to NZ in the form of business, cultural connections, etc; and secondly, that the best is brought out in New Zealand society through its acknowledging its share of global responsibilities.
Whilst New Zealand is becoming an increasingly multicultural society, prejudice remains within this society that requires urgent action. Furthermore, New Zealand’s desire to share in global responsibilities has been tested by a counter-argument that engaging in conflict resolution internationally puts this nation at risk of becoming a target.
In the context of this range of perspectives, the UNANZ 2015 National Conference seeks to understand New Zealand’s standing and reputation in the world, and how its current standing can be enhanced further through engagement with the many organs, agencies and programs of the United Nations Organization.
What does the intenational Human Law really mean?
In December 1991, the General Assembly adopted resolution 46/182, which was designed to strengthen the United Nations response to complex emergencies and natural disasters, while improving the overall effectiveness of humanitarian operations in the field. The resolution also created the high-level position of Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC). This new function would combine into a single United Nations focal point the functions carried out by the Secretary-General’s representatives for major and complex emergencies, as well as the United Nation’s natural disaster functions carried out by the United Nations Disaster Relief Organization.
Soon after the resolution was adopted, the Secretary-General established the Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA). He also assigned the ERC the status of Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, with offices in New York and Geneva to provide institutional support. Resolution 46/182 also created the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), the Consolidated Appeals Process and the Central Emergency Revolving Fund as key coordination mechanisms and tools of the ERC.
In 1998, as part of the Secretary-General’s program of reform, DHA was reorganized into the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Its mandate was expanded to include the coordination of humanitarian response, policy development and humanitarian advocacy. OCHA carries out its coordination function primarily through the IASC, which is chaired by the ERC. Participants include all humanitarian partners, from United Nations agencies, funds and programs, to the Red Cross movement and NGOs. The IASC ensures inter-agency decision-making in response to complex emergencies.The responses include needs assessments, consolidated appeals, field coordination arrangements and the development of humanitarian policies.