UN
Goes
For Gold On Development During Olympics: UN News Centre, 12 February 2010.
Athletes committed to the
pursuit
of excellence with aspirations of success in international and Olympic
competition,
become participants in a humanitarian objective to utilize their
talents,
opportunities and achievements as a vehicle for positive change. This
theme
is reflected in the following excerpt from a resolution adopted by the
United
Nations General Assembly, 25 November 1997: 52/21.
Reaffirming that the Olympic ideal promotes
international
understanding, particularly among the youth of the world, through sport
and culture in order to advance the harmonious development of humankind,
Noting
with
satisfaction the increasing number of joint endeavours of the
International
Olympic Committee and the United Nations system, for example in the
fields
of development, humanitarian assistance, protection of the environment,
health
promotion and education, in which the United Nations Development
Programme,
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the
United
Nations Environment Programme, the World Health Organization and the
United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization have
participated.
-- Reaffirming
the Olympic Ideal for the Purpose of Continuing the Progress of Humanity,
Humanitarian Resource Institute.
22 January 2010
Dear Friends:
The international community is now engaged in
the systemic collapse of Haiti, following the devastating earthquake,
this last week. As the world
struggles to respond to this humanitarian emergency, the cost of
negligence
and neglect of the worlds severely impoverished populations, is
finally
being grasped by world leaders.
With 3.5 Billion
people or half of the worlds population living in severe poverty, the United Nations Arts
Initiative "Hope for Humanity" Campaign, will target the
completion of objectives outlined below in the "Stand Up Against
Poverty - 2009: The Next Level" Initiative.
Thank you for your support.
Stephen
M. Apatow
Founder, Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian Resource Institute
Humanitarian University Consortium Graduate Studies
Center for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone: 203-668-0282
Email: s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
Internet: www.humanitarian.net
United
Nations Arts Initiative
Arts Integration Into Education
Url: www.unarts.org
Twitter: unarts
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"Stephen M. Apatow" <s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net> |
18 October 2009
Humanitarian Resource Institute
Phone: (203) 668-0282
Url: www.humanitarian.net
Global Arts Integration Into Education Initiative
Url: www.unarts.org
Twitter: unarts
STAND UP AGANIST POVERTY - 2009: THE NEXT LEVEL
Humanitarian Resource Institute [1,2]
and the ONE Campaign [3] have advanced a global grassroots appeal for
participation in the United Nations initiative STAND UP 2009.
[4]
Last
year, a record breaking 116 million people stood up and took action to
end poverty and help achieve these Goals. However, this is a time
of extraordinary challenge. The global financial crisis is having a
devastating impact on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable.
This
year, Humanitarian Resource Institute [5] is working to spread
the
message about STAND UP 2009 to the community level
in
192 member countries of the United Nations [6], to engage the
grassroots
level (6.91 billion population), half who live in extreme
poverty [6].
Though Humanitarian Resource Institute fully supports the objectives of
the Millennium Declaration 2015 target, [7] the size and scope
of the current international humanitarian emergency needs to be
comprehended with immediate intervention. Focus areas
include:
- Damage to the economic
infrastructure in every United Nations member country, attributed to
the lack of regulatory controls on global financial markets during the
last decade. [8] This includes reversing the damage of systemic
hyperinflation and inability
of traditional economic mechanisms to accommodate stability.
- World Health Organization Level 6
Pandemic [9]: International Public Health Emergency and crisis
associated with vaccine accessibility [10], co-infection: Toxic
Shock Syndrome [11], sensitivity testing for
antibiotic resistance in secondary bacterial infections [12, 13, 14].
The severity of current challenge is proportional to the state of
public health infrastructure in UN member countries. [15]
STAND UP
2009 is a starting point that engages the use of technology in a
Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube world. But as noted above,
the issues
on the table need to go far beyond a tweet or a post of support on
Facebook or MySpace. We need real time communication of
prioritized issues,
engagement of top experts and formation of background discussion groups
for
review and analysis, compilation of peer reviewed supporting
information
for communication to the decision making level, media, etc., etc.
Through this advocacy approach, consensus building, grassroots
strategic planning, and response are achievable at the speed of an
email. [16]
The goal is to provide the grassroots level, in every UN member country
with the tools they need to STAND UP in 2009.
Stephen Michael Apatow [17] is founder of the nonprofit
organization Humanitarian Resource Institute and director of the Global
Arts Integration Into Education Initiative.
References:
- Humanitarian Resource Institute:
Url: www.humanitarian.net
- Humanitarian Resource Institute:
Global Arts integration Into Education Initiative "Rock the World"
Campaign. Url: www.unarts.org
- ONE Campaign: Url: www.one.org
- STAND UP 2009: Url: www.standagainstpoverty.org
- Pathobiologics International:
Communications capability. Url: www.pathobiologics.org/groundzero.html
- The Ultimate Objective: Global
Poverty Statistics and Humanitarian needs. Url: www.humanitarian.net/interfaith/studycenter/Omnia_vincit_amor/
- United Nations Millennium
Declaration: Url: www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.htm
- How will the Global Economic
Crisis
Impact the Worlds Poor: USAID, April 2009. Url: www.usaid.gov/locations/asia/documents/Health-and-Impact-of-Economic-Crisis-4-13-final-duproof0413.pdf
- Current WHO phase of pandemic
alert: Url: www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/phase/en/index.html
- Nine Countries Pledge H1N1 Vaccine
Donations To Developing Countries: 120 Million doses to cover 6.91
billion global
population. Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report. Url: http://globalhealth.kff.org/Daily-Reports/2009/September/18/GH-091809-Swine-Flu.aspx
- Toxic Shock Syndrome:
Medscape, eMedicine. Url: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/969239-overview
- CDC: National Antimicrobial Resistance
Monitoring
System (NARMS): Enteric Bacteria. Url: www.cdc.gov/NARMS/
- Antibiotic Resistance
Enteric Disease: 2005 Agricultural operations. Note: Salmonella
culture,
antibiotic sensitivity. Url: www.pathobiologics.org/ivphc/ar362005.html
- Co-infection
discussion: Presence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in farm and
pet animals.
Url: http://aac.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/40/10/2285
- Academic Analysis -
Intelligence Community: Stephen Michael Apatow at Los Alamos - Keynote
on molecular
diagnostics. Url: www.pathobiologics.org
- H-II: Human Rights Reporting -
Evidence Collection - Witness Protection. Url: www.humanitarian.net/university/arts/news/nedasoltan_6232009.html
- Stephen Michael Apatow:
Background.
Url: www.humanitarian.net/presbio.html
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