Index for the July-September 1999 issue of ONE COUNTRY (Volume 11, Issue 2)
In Uganda, community health workers effect long term changes
Focusing on hygiene and vaccination, a health project serving isolated Kumi and Soroti Districts has used overseas funding from Canada to help build a sustainable cadre of grassroots-level volunteers.In Australia, an International Women's Conference charts new directions
BRISBANE, Australia - Mapping a new path for women in the coming millennium, an international women's conference here focused on forging new partnerships among diverse sectors of society, taking practical measures to promote the advancement of women, and making spiritual and moral values the key to consolidating gains.
Earth Charter process offers a model for global consensus building
As others consider how to achieve consensus on international issues, the process used by the drafters of the Earth Charter offers an example of how to solicit and incorporate ideas from civil society groups and prominent individuals worldwide.Annual UN DPI Conference becoming an important venue for NGO networking
UNITED NATIONS - Despite the disruptions globalization causes, it can potentially provide great benefits to all humanity - and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have a critical role in ensuring that such positive outcomes are reached.US Bahá'í community urges strong support for the United Nations - including full US funding
UNITED NATIONS - Among the thousands of NGO representatives at this year's UN DPI/NGO conference were 16 Bahá'ís from local communities in the United States of America. Their presence at the event represents part of a strong effort within the Bahá'í community of the United States to support the United Nations and its mission of promoting international peace and security.U.S. Bahá'í Leader Appointed to Presidential Commission on Religious Freedom
WASHINGTON - Firuz Kazemzadeh, a long-serving leader in the Bahá'í community of the United States of America, has been appointed by United States President William Clinton to serve on the Commission on International Religious Freedom.
In
Cameroon a high-level receptionwas
organized jointly by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of
Cameroon and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on 15 March 1999.
In Singapore, President Ong Teng Cheong hosted a reception on 3 June 1999 at his residence for members of the Inter-Religious Organization of Singapore. Representatives of the Bahá'í Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Taoism and Zoroastrianism were present.
Perspective: The Need for an International Force
Recent world events suggest the time has come to reexamine the original vision of the UN's founders and discuss the ways and means by which a ready international force might be assembled and made a credible instrument of international conscience.Updates: "Promoting Positive Images through the Media" project expands.
-- First examined in ONE COUNTRY 10.3, a Bahá'í project to heal ethnic tensions in southeastern Europe is further taking root.
From Hothead to World Citizen
Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie
By Alyn Shipton
Oxford University Press
Oxford
Over the last century and a half, jazz has evolved from the folk songs of Africans living enslaved in America to a major world musical form, played and appreciated in nearly every nation on the planet. One of the major figures in this evolution was John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, whose harmonic and rhythmic innovations in the 1940s helped transform the musical language of jazz into a modernistic expression that captivated audiences worldwide.