Hier, c'était la journée internationale de la Paix.
La journée internationale de la paix est célébrée chaque année le 21 septembre. Elle est dédiée à la paix et particulièrement à l'absence de guerre, qui doit se manifester par un cessez-le-feu dans les zones de combat. Elle est observée dans de nombreux pays depuis sa création en 1981lundi 22 septembre 2025
22 septembre 2024 Reconnaissance de la Palestine par la France
dimanche 22 septembre 2024
Journée internationale de la paix 2024
La journée internationale de la paix/ 21/09/2024
La journée internationale de la paix est célébrée chaque année le 21 septembre. Elle est dédiée à la paix et particulièrement à l'absence de guerre, qui doit se manifester par un cessez-le-feu dans les zones de combat. Elle est observée dans de nombreux pays depuis sa création en 1981.
Depuis 3 ans, le collectif « 21 septembre » a pour but de promouvoir la journée internationale de la paix et d’encourager les initiatives ce jour là. En tant qu'écologistes, nous sommes fiers d'en faire partie et à ce titre, nous apportons notre pierre à l'édifice.
L'écologie de la paix est une approche qui cherche à concilier les enjeux environnementaux avec des valeurs de paix, de justice sociale et de solidarité. Elle repose sur l'idée que les crises environnementales, telles que le changement climatique, la déforestation, ou la pollution, sont intimement liées aux conflits sociaux, politiques et économiques.
Dans cette perspective, pour résoudre les problèmes écologiques, il est essentiel de promouvoir la paix, la coopération internationale, et des systèmes économiques et politiques qui respectent à la fois les êtres humains et la nature. Cela passe par des actions comme :
1. La promotion de la justice environnementale : Réduire les inégalités qui existent dans l'accès aux ressources naturelles et dans les impacts des dégradations environnementales, souvent plus sévères dans les pays pauvres.
2. La résolution des conflits liés aux ressources : Les tensions autour de l'accès à l'eau, aux terres arables et aux énergies fossiles sont souvent des causes de guerre. Une gestion durable et équitable des ressources naturelles peut prévenir de nombreux conflits.
3. La transition vers des modes de vie durables : Encourager des pratiques économiques et sociales qui minimisent les dommages environnementaux, tout en favorisant la cohésion sociale et la paix.
L'écologie de la paix reconnaît également que les populations les plus vulnérables sont souvent celles qui subissent le plus les conséquences des désastres écologiques, d'où l'importance de solutions inclusives et respectueuses des droits humains.
Aujourd'hui, plus qu'hier et moins que demain, il y a une urgence absolue de se choisir un pouvoir fort soutenu par le PEUPLE qui a la volonté de promouvoir la PAIX et surtout ne pas alimenter des conflits meurtriers qui non seulement attiseront la haine mais surtout seront la cause de drames humains et écologiques comme c'est le cas aujourd'hui avec ce qu'il se passe dans de nombreuses partie du Monde, la liste est longue mais je citerai 2 conflits majeurs actuels, la guerre entre la Russie et l'Ukraine et la crise explosive au Moyen Orient où un peuple, le peuple palestinien est exterminé en direct sous nos yeux sans réaction sérieuse de la communauté internationale.
Alors, j'en appelle à toutes et tous pour intensifier notre combat pour la PAIX et contre la GUERRE.
Et pour terminer mon discours, je citerai Nelson Mandela
"Pour faire la PAIX avec un ennemi, on doit travailler avec cet ennemi, et cet ennemi devient votre associé"
"La guerre n'est pas une fatalité mais la paix est une nécessité absolue si on aspire à vivre heureux " Tahar
samedi 15 avril 2023
Israel-Palestine: Tension-reduction Measures Urgently Needed
jeudi 13 avril 2023
Hommage à Monseigneur Gaillot
lundi 10 avril 2023
Syria: The Start of a Long Night of Sorrow
On 13 March 2011 in Derra, in the south of Syria, 15 teenage boys were arrested by Syrian security police
Fairly quickly the protesters stated to structure themselves in cities and larger towns. Protesters started to form local councils and to take up local administrative tasks. In 2011, Syria was a police state but under administrated concerning services of education, health and other public services. Rural areas were even less administrated.
Yemen: Positive Action Still Needed
25 March is the anniversary date of the start of 28 days on continued bombing of Yemen in 2015 by the Saudi-Arabia-led coalition (Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, Sudan, United Arab Emirates helped by arms and "intelligence" by the U.S.A. and the U.K.). The aggression by the Saudi coalition turned what had been an internal struggle for power going on from the "Arab Spring" of 2011 into a war with regional dimensions which brought Iran into the picture. The role of Iran has been exaggerated both by the Iranian government itself and by those hostile to Iran. Nevertheless, the Iranian role is real.
Conscience: The Inner Voice of the Higher Self
lundi 13 février 2023
The Use of Child Soldiers: Children of Conflict
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
Child soldiers in Uganda. [Source: gulfnews.com]
Concern with the welfare of children has been an inter-governmental concern going back to the League of Nations days. However, the use of child soldiers was rarely mentioned as the professional military prior to the Second World War had persons over 18, usually the youngest were in their 20s. However, the German Nazi used very young men in the last days of the war to try to limit the impact of the Allied forces within Germany. There were a number of films and books which told of their efforts. However, attention did not carry on once the Nazi forces were defeated.
Building on the NGO efforts in 1979 during the International Year of the Child, in the period 1993-1996, there was a U.N. study on the “Impact of Armed Conflict on Children” led by Ms Graça Machel, later the wife of Nelson Mandela. She wrote “For too long, the consequences for children have been tolerated as an unfortunate but inevitable side effect of war. In reality, children have increasingly become targets and not incedental victims, as a result of conscious and deliberate decisions made by adults.”
As a result of the Graça Machel study in 1997, the U.N. General Assembly named Ambassador Olara A. Otunnu as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. He placed an emphasis on the moral vacuum in which all restraints have been eroded and discarded – a world in which children are no longer precious. He wrote,
Ambassador Otunnu was from Uganda which had seen more than its share of the breakdown of social norms and resulting violence such as that carried on by the Lord’s Resistance Army which systematically abducted children to be used as soldiers, porters, and sex slaves starting in 1987 but building on earlier armed movements. He was in exile and given citizenship by the Cote d’Ivoire which had appointed him Ambassador to the U.N. During the sessions of the U.N. Committee on Human Rights, he was in Geneva, and we had long discussions. He was very open to the spirit of Citizens of the World and the need to develop universal norms so as to move beyond an unregulated struggle for power.
Olara Otunnu wrote “Children represent the future of human civilization and the future of every society. To permit them to be used as pawns in warfare, whether as targets or perpetrators, is to cast a shadow on the future. From generation to generation, violence begets violence, as the abused grow up to become abusers. Children who are thus violated carry the scars of fear and hatred in their hearts and minds. Forced to learn to kill instead of pursuing education, the children of conflict lack the knowledge and skills needed to build their futures and the futures of their communities. For a society, the lives destroyed and the opportunities lost could have a devastating effect on its long-term stability and development.
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dimanche 29 janvier 2023
H.G. Wells and Human Rights
by Rene Wadlow
2023-01-27 08:59:32
H.G. Wells from the 1930s on was concerned with the ways the world should be organized with a world organization stronger than the League of Nations. Such a world organization should be backed up and urged on by a strong body of public opinion linked together world-wide by the unifying bond of a common code of human rights and duties.
Thus, there was a need for a clear statement of world values that could be understood by most and that would be a common statement of the aspiration on which to build a new freedom and a new dignity. Wells had a strong faith in international public opinion when it was not afraid to express new and radical thoughts that cut across the conventional wisdom of the day. He wrote in 1943 "Behind the short-sighted governments that divide and mismanage human affairs, a real force for world unity and order exists and grows."
Wells hoped that the "Declaration of the Rights of the World Citizen" would become the fundamental law for mankind through the whole world - a true code of basic rights and duties which set out the acceptable shape of a just world society.
Wells set out 10 rights which combined civil liberties already common to many democratic states with economic and social rights which were often considered as aspirations but not as rights. Thus among the 10 rights we find the Right to Participate in Government, Freedom of Thought and Worship, the Right to Knowledge, Freedom from Violence including Torture, along with the Right to Education, the Right to Medical Care, the Right to Work with Legitimate Remuneration, the Protection of Minors, Freedon of Movement about the Earth.
The drafters of the U.N. Charter in 1945 included a pledge by member states "to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in equal rights of men and women, and of nations large and small." Much of the debate from 1946 when the U.N. Commission on Human Rights was created until December 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed concerned the relative place of civil liberties and of economic, social, and cultural rights.
While the text of H.G. Wells is largely forgotten today, he had the vision of the strong link between freedom of thought based on civil liberties and the need for economic dignity set out in the economic, social, and cultural rights.
Rene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens
jeudi 29 septembre 2022
Saber Rattling With Nuclear Weapons.
Rattling With Nuclear Weapons. September 25, 2022Rene WadlowAssociation of World Citizens, Day of Peace, Donetsk, Kherson, Lugan
Featured Image: During the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council (via videoconference). By Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
” I am addressing you – all citizens of our country, people of different generations, ages and ethnicities, the people of our great Motherland, all who are united by the great historical Russia, soldiers, officers and volunteers who are fighting on the frontline and doing their combat duty, our brothers and sisters in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Kherson and Zaporazhye regions and other areas that have been liberated from the neo-Nazi regime.”
“The goal of that part of the West is to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy our country. They are saying openly now that in 1991 they managed to split up the Soviet Union and now is the time to do the same to Russia, which must be divided into numerous regions that would be at deadly feud with each other… Washington, London and Brussels are openly encouraging Kiev to move hostilities to our territory. They openly say that Russia must be defeated on the battlefield by any means, and subsequently deprived of political, economic, cultural and any other sovereignty and ransacked.”
” partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation to defend our Motherland and its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to ensure the safety of our people and people in the liberated territories.”
” I am referring to the statements made by some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO countries on the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction – nuclear weapons against Russia… In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our peole, we will certinaly use all weapon systems available to us. This is not a bluff.”
He ended by saying:
“The citizens of Russia can rest assured that the territorial integrity of our Motherland, our independence and freedom will be defended – I repeat – by all the systems available to us.”
dimanche 26 juin 2022
26 June: International Day Against Torture / journée internationale contre la torture
26 June: International Day Against Torture.
by Rene Wadlow2022-06-26 08:41:02
However; He had earlier been a long-time leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA); being the son of John MacBride; an executed leader of the 1916 Easter Rising – an attack on the Dublin Post Office. With his death John MacBride became an Irish hero of resistance. Later Sean had spent time in prison accused of murder. He told me that he had never killed anyone; but as the IRA Director of Intelligence he was held responsible for the murders carried out by men under his command. Later, he also worked against the death penalty.
26 June as the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
As examples of the current use of torture kept being presented by NGO representatives and as some victims of torture came to Geneva to testify; the Commission on Human Rights named a Special Rapporteur and also started to work on what became the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel; Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The Treaty came into effect on 26 June 1987 and in1997 the UN General Assembly designated 26 June as the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
Independent Experts.
Human Rights treaties negotiated within the UN create what are known as “Treaty Bodies” a group of persons who are considered to be “independent experts”. As the saying around Geneva goes; “some are more ‘expert’ than others, and some are more ‘independent’ than others. Countries which have ratified a human rights convention should make a report every four or five years to the specific Treaty Body. For the Torture Treaty; it is every four years to the 10-person expert group.
Many States are late, some very late, in meeting this obligation. There are 158 States which have ratified the Torture Convention; but some 28 States have never bothered to file a report. States which have not ratified the treaty do not make reports.
Concluding Observations.
NGO representatives provide the experts with information in advance and suggest questions that could usefully be asked. The State usually sends representatives to Geneva for the Treaty Body discussions as the permanent Ambassador is rarely able to answer specific questions on police and prison conditions. At the end of the discussion between the representative of a State and the experts; the experts write “concluding observations” and make recommendations.
Unfortunately; the Convention is binding only on States. However; increasingly non-governmental armed militias; such as ISIS in Syria and Iraq carry out torture in a systematic way. The militia’s actions can be mentioned but not examined by the Treaty Body.
While there is no sure approach to limiting the use of torture; much depends on the observations and actions of non-governmental organizations. We need to increase our efforts; to strengthen the values which prohibit torture, and watch closely how persons are treated by the police, prison guards and armed militias.
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Rene Wadlow, President and a Representative to the United Nations, Geneva, of the Association of World Citizens.
dimanche 5 septembre 2021
Menace sur les minorités d'Afghanistan
There are some three million Hazara whose home area is in the central mountainous core of Afghanistan, but a good number have migrated to Kabul, most holding unskilled labor positions in the city. The Hazara are largely Shi’a in religion but are considered as non-Muslim heretics or infidels by the Taliban as well as by members of the Islamic State in Khorasan (ISIS-K), now also an armed presence in Afghanistan.
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:* Killing members of the group;

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