http://blog.bkun.org Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:20:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Humanitarian Aid Workers are serving the world in many ways to help change things for the better. http://ochaonline.un.org/whd/ UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) page.http://www.unhcr.org/4c6bec862.html An article explaining the inception of WHD last year in commemoration of the bombing in 2003 in Baghdad which killed 22 people 18 of whom ... http://blog.bkun.org/?p=580 The Rural Development Wing of Brahma Kumaris has worked with farmers across India and have developed a yogic farming technique by incorporating ancient Rajayoga Meditation. Using this technique farmers bestow positive vibrations to the crops along with other organic inputs. Over the last 5 years this technique was adopted by ... http://blog.bkun.org/?p=579 This was the last Briefing of the 2009-2010 season, so there were a number of different items discussed or presented. The NGO DPI Executive Committee conducted the annual election for next year's Committee - the Executive Committee is an 18 member body elected annually - A third of the body serve ... http://blog.bkun.org/?p=578 World Refugee Day 2010 http://www.unhcr.org/pages/4bf4f2616.html More than 40 million people are displaced around the world and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is especially concerned about the 10 million who are refugees. "On this, World Refugee Day, I ask you to help us help refugees find a place to call ... http://blog.bkun.org/?p=577 On Day One of the Informal Interactive Hearings between the General Assembly representing countries and the Civil Community representing the worlds peoples, the Secretary General Ban Ki Moon addressed the gathering saying ... http://blog.bkun.org/?p=576 The UN Secretary-General Urges Young People to Use ‘Creativity and Passion’ to Start Building a Peaceful World Today, Marking the Countdown until The International Day of Peace http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/sgsm12954.doc.htm http://blog.bkun.org/?p=575 In Observance of World Environment Day (WED) - 5 June 2010 www.unep.org/wed/2010/english/ According to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, 'biodiversity' is the term given for "the variability among living organisms from all sources including, another other things, terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they ... http://blog.bkun.org/?p=570 End of Decade Report for the Culture of Peace 2010For over 70 years the Brahma Kumaris has been working for a culture of peace through its many varied activities around the world. See below some excerpts from our Civil Society Report of the Decade for a Culture of Peace and ... http://blog.bkun.org/?p=556  USUN PRESS RELEASE # 99 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 19, 2010 Good morning everyone. Thank you, Mr. Secretary-General. Thank you especially for your leadership here at the United Nations, including on the very important issue of distracted driving.  Secretary LaHood, thank you so much for joining us in New York and for the ... http://blog.bkun.org/?p=552 Yesterday, Tamasin, Kymberly and I went to a wonderful concert held in the UN General Assembly which was a celebration of the 65th Anniversary of the End of World War II.  It was sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN on behalf of the participants ... http://blog.bkun.org/?p=549