September 21 : International Day of Peace The Luarca Declaration and the Human Right to Peace

The international day of peace was established 26 years ago in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly as an annual observance of global non-violence and ceasefire. Every year the United Nations and its specialized agencies remind the world that peace is the highest good, peace with justice. On 21 September 2007 UN Secretary-General Ban...

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Compassion Arises – A note on DDM’s Humanitarian Aid to Peru’s Earthquake By: Susan Chen*

As I sat on a plane with four other colleagues en route to Lima, Peru on August 20, 2007, I kept thinking and imagining what it was like over there. I remembered when an earthquake of a similar magnitude hit Taiwan in 1999 and how it destroyed the livelihoods of many people. I also remembered...

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