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11.04.2020

FOR NEW HUMANITY NGO THE TIME FOR PEACE IS NOW

Sign this petition 5.04.2020 Reports of the Corona Virus pandemic infection are chasing each other, highlighting that we are one race, with the same genetic heritage, the same way of getting sick, one humanity. However, we are not all the...

10.04.2020

Pills of hope: the silent transmission #2

The United World Project team continues to tune in to initiatives of solidarity which are generating a global transmission of hope in the midst of the pandemic, listening to the “growing forest” (from the quote: “a falling tree makes more...

07.04.2020

Stop the war machine

By Davide Penna A conversation with Genoa union leader José Nivoi who works in the north Italian port. We’re publishing this interview, which first appeared in April’s edition of the Italian magazine Città Nuova, to highlight and support the civil...

03.04.2020

Stars from scars in Cameroon

See how a United World Ambassador is helping street children in Yaoundé, Cameroon, even during the Coronavirus crisis. Mabih, 36, lives with her family in Yaounde, Cameroon’s Capital city. In September 2019, she took part in a formation school for...

31.03.2020

CRY OUT FOR PEACE, SILENCE THE GUNS

Call for a global ceasefire As the pandemic spreads, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has appealed for “an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world”, speaking in a live internet broadcast on 23 March. We asked “Communion and Law”...

27.03.2020

NEW HUMANITY NGO STATEMENT IN THE TIME OF A PANDEMIC

24.03.2020 A statement by New Humanity NGO President to assure our closeness and solidarity to all those who, worldwide, suffer the spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic, the call to Countries to contribute to building real fraternity among peoples, the invitation to...

27.03.2020

“Pills” of hope: the silent transmission

Just some of the countless initiatives of solidarity emerging from the Coronovirus outbreak: not all transmission is negative. As the world finds itself dramatically united by the spread of Coronavirus, sharing suffering and dismay over the growing number of deaths,...

24.03.2020

Meeting wounded humanity in Lebanon’s largest prison

It took some time to reconstruct the facts referred to in this letter we received in our mailbox (mediaoffice@unitedworldproject.org). A tactful and strong text, a sort of secular meditation, a very deep and wise reflection on the theme of brotherhood,...

20.03.2020

Coronavirus, the experience of a young Italian nurse

The testimony of Chiara Muffato, nurse in Mestre, province of Venice, for weeks an area with a high prevalence of Coronavirus. Since Wednesday, March 11, the whole of Italy has been in quarantine due to the Coronavirus outbreak. To date...

17.03.2020

Sports and happiness

By Paolo Crepaz Every more or less competitive motor activity is a metaphor for life, a discovery of oneself, one’s limits and talents. Observing the miseries and contradictions of high performance sports (victory at all costs, the culture of no...

13.03.2020

Greening music

Bands, singers and whole festivals are changing their ways of thinking about concerts and live music to reduce their environmental impact. Is it the start of a lasting change for an industry that every year produces tonnes of waste and...

12.03.2020

Refugee crisis in Greece: Restore the Right to Asylum for Refugees

NEW HUMANITY NGO AND MPPU (MOVEMENT FOR POLITICS AND POLICIES FOR UNITY) APPEAL FOR WORTHY AND COURAGEOUS CHOICES What is happening now at the gates of Europe, on the border between Greece and Turkey, must awaken the collective civil conscience...

06.03.2020

Behind the scenes of “The Economy of Francesco”

Let’s discover the work of the team that is preparing The Economy of Francesco*, the event that, from 26 to 28 March 2020, will gather in Assisi, invited by Pope Francis, about 2000 young economists, entrepreneurs and change makers from...

03.03.2020

United Kingdom: not only Brexit

In the aftermath of Brexit (the UK’s exit from the European Union), part of the staff of the Collegamento CH went to England to try to understand how they arrived to this step and what can be expected for the future...

28.02.2020

Loving beyond the border

By Alexander Simoen An experience lived by a group of young people from Scotland, Italy, Colombia, Algeria, Belgium, China, and Argentina representing the NGO New Humanity who visited Turkey and spent time with locals and refugees. We are Danila, Yang...

25.02.2020

Working like the bees: together and sustainably

This year, in the fifth “Holidays with a difference” at El Espinal, Argentina, a group of “sustainable tourists” visited a new honey extraction and filter unit created in collaboration with an association of local women, working to boost artisan honey...

21.02.2020

A “different” outlook on the crisis in Ecuador

By Catalina Hinojosa An account of the recent crisis in Ecuador from a peace-building perspective. In March 2019 the Ecuadorian government signed an agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a loan of $4,200million. The conditions imposed on the country...

18.02.2020

A social action to promote peace in Uruguay

By Stefania Tanesini During the past 15 years, the Focolare Centre ”Nueva Vida” has carried out a very important social action, that supports young people and their families in an area on the outskirts of Montevideo,Uruguay. Luis Mayobre, director of...

14.02.2020

Time to dare, time to give

A 24-hour ‘Hackathon’ in Caserta, Italy, targeted the creation of a digital platform fusing technology with social and environmental sustainability, plus the capacity to promote the concept of “gift”, “circular economy” and other values. It was sparked off by the...

11.02.2020

Migration from the southern shore of the Mediterranean

By Claudia Di Lorenzi What is the vision from North Africa of the migration towards Europe phenomenon? How is it possible to make it person centred, thus moving from a purely economic to a human vision of migration? Interview with...