MIDDLE EAST
DECLARATION OF PURPOSE:
WICO - "Women's International Coalition-for Culture of Peace, Non-Violence and Empowered Women" - Israel, wishes to embrace the above UN resolution, and as an International project to build also in Israel "The National Peace Center and the High Institute for Culture of Peace and Non-Violence Studied" as an answer of peace. The Israel based organization will work in conjunction with governments and organization throughout the world to realize the vision of Peace and the education for Non-Violence, as well as constructing a building that would serve as a center for world peace in Israel.
As part of its activity as a women's organization, while adapting to the specific needs of the child, youth and women populations in Israel, the organization will naturally take part in additional areas
via projects in the fields of :
* Advancement and Empowerment of Women in Israel regardless of Nationality, Race or Religion in cooperation of national and international women organizations.
* Rehabilitating medical care for women, children and youth in areas of war or hostile activities, whose lives have been altered significantly as a result of such activities.
* Care and assistance to populations of weakened women including distressed young girls and children living in a background of violence in the family
* Creating employment opportunities for unemployed women and assisting with professional training for women without a profession.
* Education grants for young women who failed to complete their education, who come from backgrounds of orphanage, losing a spouse or handicapped due to hostile activities, as well as creating a special educational framework for distressed girls from disprivileged socioeconomic backgrounds and/or wedding at an early age.
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IFLAC International Forum For Literature And Culture Of Peace |
IFLAC STATUTES (2008)
(Voluntary Association No. 58-035-275-5)
IFLAC Pave Peace is a voluntary Association, founded by Dr. Ada Aharoni, that strives for peace by building bridges of understanding and peace through culture, literature and communication. Its major goals are:
* To strive toward the promotion of peace and mutual
respect between people and nations.
* To promote social, cultural and religious tolerance
between people.
* To eliminate violence in all its forms.
* To organize peace culture researchers, writers,
and intellectuals.
* To encourage creativity that promotes culture and peace.
We believe that culture and literature can promote peace, freedom, and the enrichment of the quality of life. In the first decade of the twenty first century, we shall endeavor to pave the way towards the fulfillment of our main ideal: “One world and one humanity, all living in peace”. Our goal is to help build a Middle East and a world beyond war in the first decade of the 21st century, by means of literature, culture, art and the global IFLAC PCTV gigantic project. This endeavor is in harmony with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights embodied in the Charter of the United Nations.
At IFLAC, we strive for freedom of speech and expression, and for freedom from hostile and oppressive violence, whether it is war, terror, gender, physical, mental or moral oppression. We believe in the right of people everywhere to live in peace, and in their rights to pursue their various cultures, as well as their human endeavors, and their right to obtain equal civil justice.
The IFLAC CHARTER 2008, that follows, is an inherent part of the IFLAC STATUES 2008. www.iflac.com www.iflac.com/ada