Articles tagged as Un

• 
  Internship Program Launched to Help Develop ISKCON at the UN

  After applying and going through a rigorous approval process, The Office of Communications for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) received ECOSOC status with the UN in 2016, the highest level at which an NGO can be associated with the UN.

• 
  21 African Countries Are Joining Together to Build a 4,750-mile Wall of Trees

  Nearly two dozen African nations are now committed to build and maintain the “Great Green Wall,” a chain of forests and woodlands spreading across the entire continent.

• 
  'King of Braj' - Krishna Reggae for Children’s Rights

  One of the shared passion of the members of the band 'King of Braj' is volunteering for ISKCON Hungary’s Food for Life program, and besides helping hands-on on the field, contributin to the cause through the power of art.

• 
  ISKCON Devotee Nominated Co-Chair of UN Multifaith Advisory Council

  Gopal Lila Das (Gopal Patel) is Director of the Bhumi Project, an environmental effort of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He also co-leads The Sacred Ecology Forum at the Bhakti Center in New York City, and is an advisor to the Climate Action Task Force at the Parliament of the World’s Religions.

• 
  Second Gen Devotee Participates In U.N. Youth Assembly

  Brinda Raval, 21, is offering an inspirational example of how young ISKCON devotees can engage with today’s global concerns. “I’m very interested in social justice issues, and how as a devotee and a spiritual person I can use that to serve,” says Brinda. Through a rigorous application process, Brinda was recently accepted to attend the UN Summer Youth Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York City.

• 
  ISKCON Hungary Organizes Interfaith FFL on UN World Food Day

  On October 16^th the United Nations and the world celebrates World Food Day. ISKCON Hungary organized a major free food distribution event to the needy in Budapest. Volunteers of different faith groups worked together and distributed 1,600 plates of hot lunch, and gave out tons of dry food, including pasta, flour, vegetable oil, rice and other items from which families can cook from for weeks.

• 
  Would You Hide a Jew From the Nazis?

  “I remember being on a ship to New York and hearing that some Americans didn’t want to let us in because there were Nazi spies among us."

• Young Indigenous Climate Activist's UN Speech on Climate Change

  United Nations - Remarks by Xiuhtezcatl, indigenous climate activist and Youth Director of Earth Guardians at the opening segment of the High-level event of the United Nations General Assembly on Climate Change (29 June 2015).

• Tulsi Gabbard's Yoga Day Speech at UN Headquarters

  Tulsi Gabbard was a Special Guest at the celebration of International Yoga Day at the UN Headquarters in New York on Jun 21, where she spoke, along with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, India’s Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, and India’s UN Ambassador Asoke Mukerji. Her UN remarks were broadcast live in Times Square. She and other leaders also went to address a crowd in Times Square where over 30,000 people practiced yoga throughout the day.

• Leonardo DiCaprio (UN Messenger of Peace) at the Opening of Climate Summit, 2014

  “As an actor I pretend for a living,” starts his speech DeCaprio. “I pretend fictitious characters usually solving fictitious problems. I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in the same way. As if it were a fiction. As if pretending that climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.”

• 
  UN Urges Global Move to Meat and Dairy-free Diet

  Lesser consumption of animal products is necessary to save the world from the worst impacts of climate change, UN report says.