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- Join Us in Celebrating WORLD MEDITATION DAY
Proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly:
Saturday, 21 December 2024, at 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM in your country/time zone. World Meditation Day is dedicated to promoting health, mental well-being, and peace for the individual and community through the practice of meditation, bringing attention to the profound impact meditation can have on reducing stress, enhancing focus, and fostering a sense of calm in our daily lives. By participating, individuals can experience the collective energy of a global community committed to the development of individual and collective consciousness.
- U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials
Andrew Jacobs, NY Times, July 8, 2018 A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly. Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes. Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.
- Why The U.N. Is Being Sued Over Haiti's Cholera Epidemic
Richard Knox, NPR, March 21, 2016 A study, which appears this month in Emerging Infectious Diseases, indicates Haiti's official count of cholera cases and deaths are a big understatement. . . . Poor sanitation at a U.N. camp for peacekeepers allowed cholera-contaminated sewage to enter a tributary of Haiti's largest river, the Artibonite. . . . The disease subsequently spread to the entire country.