UN Secretary General Guterres mentions Ukraine in message on International Day of Non-violence

[Ajay0]

UN Secretary General Guterres mentioned Ukraine in his message on International Day of Non-violence which is on October 2 each year.

https://unis.unvienna.org/unis/pressrels/2024/unissgsm1440.html

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Our world today is bristling with violence.

Across the globe, conflicts are raging. From Ukraine, to Sudan, the Middle East, and far beyond, war is creating a hellscape of destruction, destitution, and fear. Inequality and climate chaos are undermining the foundations of peace. And hate whipped up online is spilling over onto the streets.

Last month’s Summit of the Future offered hope. Countries came together to lay the groundwork for a renewed multilateralism, equipped to support peace in a changing world. That includes a renewed focus on the underlying causes of conflict – from inequality to poverty and division. Now we need countries to transform those commitments into reality.

Gandhi believed non-violence was the greatest force available to humanity – more powerful than any weapon. Together, let’s build institutions to support that noble vision.

 

[Alchopwn]

Non-Violence doesn't work if even one state is violent.  Also, Gandhi was a sexual pervert, and a racist, so he has been cancelled.

[+and-then]

Guterres is a disgrace and a virulent anti-Israel hack.  

[godnodog]

On 10/3/2024 at 1:42 PM, and-then said:

Guterres is a disgrace and a virulent anti-Israel hack.  

Shame on you, clearly you don't know the basics of Guterres.

, the guy is from my country, I never voted for him and he was one of the most consensual Prime Ministers in Portuguese history when it came to care about people, known for being an humanitarian, wasn't a good overall politician though, he definitely was not criticized for not caring. For me Guterres and Sampaio were the last great Socialist Party men. Please don't confuse the Portuguese Socialist Party with communism or eastern europe "socialism", they are center left and democrats, and actively engaged to prevent communism and fascism. I am social democrat.

He is definitely not anti-Israel, he has condemned plenty of times the terrorist acts against Israel, he has publicly denounced anti semitism, he also has criticized governments around the world for lack of action against terrorism and support for war/terrorism victims.

I suggest you start checking other news sources.

the character assassination being done by the  Israel government is shameful, disturbing and disgraceful to the Israeli people. Portugal should have invited  the Israeli ambassador to leave the country if not straight forward expel.

Edited October 7 by godnodog

[bmk1245]

Comedy gold...

UN is the most useless bureaucratic organization. Should be disbanded. Period.

[bmk1245]

On 10/8/2024 at 12:33 AM, godnodog said:

Shame on you, clearly you don't know the basics of Guterres.

, the guy is from my country, I never voted for him and he was one of the most consensual Prime Ministers in Portuguese history when it came to care about people, known for being an humanitarian, wasn't a good overall politician though, he definitely was not criticized for not caring. For me Guterres and Sampaio were the last great Socialist Party men. Please don't confuse the Portuguese Socialist Party with communism or eastern europe "socialism", they are center left and democrats, and actively engaged to prevent communism and fascism. I am social democrat.

He is definitely not anti-Israel, he has condemned plenty of times the terrorist acts against Israel, he has publicly denounced anti semitism, he also has criticized governments around the world for lack of action against terrorism and support for war/terrorism victims.

I suggest you start checking other news sources.

the character assassination being done by the  Israel government is shameful, disturbing and disgraceful to the Israeli people. Portugal should have invited  the Israeli ambassador to leave the country if not straight forward expel.

Ah... "I am social democrat" says all...

[godnodog]

18 hours ago, bmk1245 said:

Ah... "I am social democrat" says all...

????

[godnodog]

19 hours ago, bmk1245 said:

Comedy gold...

UN is the most useless bureaucratic organization. Should be disbanded. Period.

agreed

[bmk1245]

3 hours ago, godnodog said:

????

Nowadays, "I am social democrat"  means "I am moron".

[godnodog]

20 hours ago, bmk1245 said:

Nowadays, "I am social democrat"  means "I am moron".

oh boy you're one of those....

[bmk1245]

On 10/14/2024 at 10:26 AM, godnodog said:

oh boy you're one of those....

Sorry, for that one, but...

Yeah, I guess, I am.

[godnodog]

1 hour ago, bmk1245 said:

Sorry, for that one, but...

Yeah, I guess, I am.

Quoting yourself here: "a moron"

I don't know what Soc. Dem. have been doing in your country, but you shouldn't project to others whatever is  your opinion/perception if your local policies. 

your profile shows you as being in Lithuania, perhaps you should check HDI and GDP of European countries that actually applied Soc.Dem. policies  in the past namely the Scandinavia countries, Unfortunately Lithuania isn't close, and neither is my country.

 

Portugal had Soc dem. governments in the past, IMO they were not Soc.Dem. Let's see how things go with this one (I think the gov. will collapse due to lack of parliament support). 

My country is falling behind Europe average because of decades of socialist governments, and still recovering from the previous ultraconservative fascist regime mindset of "poverty and ignorance are bliss"

[bmk1245]

50 minutes ago, godnodog said:

[...] Soc.Dem. policies  in the past namely the Scandinavia countries[...]

In the past.... How Scands doing now? Was fun paying pennys for protection (US is the main NATO contributor). Being socialist on the expense of others is quite easy. I've been in Sweden two decades ago, and ordinary folks (working folks) weren't much happy with social policies (yeah, try to socialize with common working folks, not money sucking liberal "intelligentsia").

[godnodog]

2 hours ago, bmk1245 said:

In the past.... How Scands doing now? Was fun paying pennys for protection (US is the main NATO contributor). Being socialist on the expense of others is quite easy. I've been in Sweden two decades ago, and ordinary folks (working folks) weren't much happy with social policies (yeah, try to socialize with common working folks, not money sucking liberal "intelligentsia").

 

I understand your reasoning but IMO it is not correct, I too have some missconceptions as well.

Europe has stupidity disinvested in defense, defense investment is not counter social democracy policies, European defense experts have warned about this for decades.

Social democrats are  not socialists, and yeah I can perfectly understand why people don't like social democracy policies (not joking, I really do), specially because it creates the sense of abuse by people of the system thus "I'm paying for these people to stay at home", these policies need to be carefully implemented with obligations like mandatory job search or education, I used my unemployment period and finished a professional logistics course, started mandarin lessons (barely learned anything as i found a job) and started my masters (  thesis is pending for 3 years now, no time or patiente to do it).

Nato's budget is mostly funded by the US, no question but this budget is for common stuff "NATO has annual budgets and programmes worth around EUR 3.8 billion, which inter alia support its permanent military command structure, enable its current operations and missions, and provide essential military infrastructure (including air and naval basing facilities, satellite communications"   (partial quotation), and let's not forget that the Commander of Nato is always an US officer, and that even some foreign military policies of european countries are bound to Nato's policies, so one can also say that (partial) Europe is bounded to US decisions.

[Ajay0]

In the first half of the twentieth century in the USA, African-American men, women and children were subjected to violent mob lynching and torture on account of baseless rumours and prejudices in the general population. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States

American civil rights leader Martin Luther King who spearheaded the civil rights movement in the sixties spoke against lynching and stated thus,"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me but it can keep him from lynching me and I think that is pretty important"

African-American soldier Hosea Williams fought for the ideals of freedom and democracy in European battlefieds during world war 2, suffering numerous injuries in the process heroically.

Returning home in poor physical condition, he was almost beaten to death for drinking water from a 'whites only' geyser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosea_Williams

Of the attack, Williams was quoted as saying, "I was deemed 100 percent disabled by the military and required a cane to walk. My wounds had earned me a Purple Heart. The war had just ended and I was still in my uniform for god's sake! But on my way home, to the brink of death, they beat me like a common dog. The very same people whose freedoms and liberties I had fought and suffered to secure in the horrors of war ... they beat me like a dog ... merely because I wanted a drink of water."

Recovering from his foreign and domestic injuries, and gaining a masters degree in chemistry, he developed a career as a successful scientist and entrepreneur later on, and became a leader of the civil rights movement in the sixties to ensure democratic values in American society.

Martin Luther King, inspired by Gandhi's philosophy and methodology, created the nonviolent civil rights movement. Though he was shot dead, the movement played a major part in ending the violence against the minority African-Americans, and the last reported lynching of an African-American happened in 1981. The first African-American president was elected in 2009.

King's efforts enabled to change the world-wide perception of the U.S as the 'wild, wild west' to that of a modern civilized state to some extent.

This shows that non-violence can be a potent weapon for trans-formative changes for the better , and can be further refined and utilized as a methodology for furthering peace and unity in human society at the national and international dimensions.

Edited October 26 by Ajay0