We Advocate for Interfaith Values in the Secular Setting of the United Nations

  • We support peace, justice, human rights, and environmental sustainability.
  • We offer an in-person Summer Internship Program for international students aged 18-22 to teach about the peacemaking work at the United Nations, which includes site visits to different religious settings and service projects.
  • Our annual free FORUM webinar focuses on the global climate crisis and offers a variety of moral, religious, Indigenous, scientific, and youth perspectives.
  • We present the ECO JUSTICE FOR ALL Dialogue monthly free webinar series, an in-depth look at current environmental issues with international experts and activists.

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FORUM2023 Earth Democracy and the Rights of Nature

FORUM2023 Earth Democracy and the Rights of Nature

  FORUM2023 Earth Democracy and the Rights of Nature Thursday 12 October, 202310am - 12:30pm ET /Online Event With Chief Arvol Looking Horse, His Holiness the Sakya Trichen, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, Matthew Fox, and speakers from the UN, the White House,...

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