Throughout modern history, urbanization has been a major driver of development and poverty reduction. Governments can respond to this key development opportunity through Habitat III by promoting a new model of urban development that is able to integrate all facets of sustainable development to promote equity, welfare and shared prosperity.
PREPARATORY PROCESS The Roadmap Preparatory Committee Intersessional Process Regional & Thematic Meetings Policy Units Regions National Participation United Nations Task Team DOCUMENTS National Reports Issue Papers Policy Papers Regional Declarations Thematic Declarations Urban Dialogue Reports
RETHINKING THE URBAN AGENDA IS: Embracing urbanization at all levels of human settlements, more appropriate policies can take advantage of urbanization across physical space, bridging urban, peri-urban and rural areas, and assist governments in addressing challenges through national and local development policy frameworks. Integrating equity to the development agenda. Equity becomes an issue of social justice, ensures access to the public sphere, extends opportunities and increases the commons. Fostering national urban planning and planned city extensions. Deciding how relevant sustainable development goals will be supported through sustainable urbanization. Aligning and strengthening institutional arrangements with the substantive outcomes of Habitat III, so as to ensure effective delivery of the new Urban Agenda.
IMPLEMENTING THE URBAN AGENDA MEANS: Urban Rules and Regulations. The outcomes in terms of quality of an urban settlement are dependent on the set of rules and regulations and its implementation. Proper urbanization requires the rule of law. Urban Planning and Design. Establishing the adequate provision of common goods, including streets and open spaces, together with an efficient pattern of buildable plots. Municipal Finance. For a good management and maintenance of the city, local fiscal systems should redistribute parts of the urban value generated. With the consideration of: National Urban Policies. These establish a connection between the dynamics of urbanization and the overall process of national development."
Source: The New Urban Agenda - Habitat III: "THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF URBANIZATION
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017
UN Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at High Level Meeting on the New Urban Agenda and UN-HABITAT [as delivered]
Excellencies,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Distinguished guests,
First of all, I would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this meeting.
I also want to especially recognize the Member States in New York and Nairobi for their participation in this meeting and their strong role in ensuring that a future UN-Habitat will be robust and able to carry out the 2030 Agenda and SDG implementation.
Last but not least, I would like to thank the Executive Director and Deputy Executive Director of UN-Habitat and the agency’s staff for its diligent work towards reform and for being with us today.
I am pleased to open this two-day High Level session and welcome such prominent leaders and experts to this meeting. We are all well aware of the importance and key role of cities and urbanization for sustainable development, peace and security.
Today, the majority of people, an estimated 4 billion, live in urban areas. By 2050, it could be 6 billion.
Cities are hubs of promise, jobs, technology and economic development. When built with low-emission development in mind, they are the most environmentally sustainable habitats possible – showcasing the safest and most efficient public transport systems and energy conserving buildings and homes in the world.
Over 80 per cent of the global GDP is generated in urban areas, and they are where most new ideas, innovations, inventions and collaborations are taking place, especially with our young people.
But, as well as being centres of promise and innovation, cities are also the epicentre of many of the challenges of sustainability.
They are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption.
They are home to the majority of the world’s refugees, where disasters strike hardest, and often flashpoints of social unrest and conflict.
It is clear that it is in cities where the battle for sustainability will be won or lost.
Cities are the organizing mechanisms of the twenty-first century. They are where young people in all parts of the world flock to develop new skills, attain new jobs, and find opportunities in which to innovate and create their futures.
They are the hotbeds of diversity, attracting new talent and migration, in an ever-constant mix of culture, knowledge, ideas that require a new way of working and collaborating to explore new opportunities and solutions to the many problems.
Cities encourage their residents to be always working toward increased respect, tolerance, vibrant and generous coexistence.
This is what will lay the foundation that will make the goals of 2030 Agenda a reality.
Sadly, to date, the global response to the promise of urbanization has been inadequate.
Urban programmes and policies often neglect the important linkages between city centres, peri-urban settlements and rural livelihoods.
Meanwhile, urban inequalities are growing in both the global south and north.
The urban share of global poverty is rising, and many cities are struggling to provide the most basic of services as their populations surge.
Even though many of the challenges like proper urban planning, inadequate climate early warning and resilience measures, are being felt most acutely in the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, sustainable urbanization is a growing and global challenge.
The recent tragic climate related events in Houston, Freetown, Karachi and Mumbai are some of the cases in point.
It is important that the UN system becomes better equipped to support Member States to develop a new paradigm for sustainable urbanization.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the most ambitious agenda ever set forth for humanity. It requires a UN system and staff equipped with nimbleness, capacities and skills to carry forward its ambitions.
The Secretary-General is working with member states on the reform of the UN system and see the reform of UN-Habitat as an important litmus test for ambition
This meeting is a chance to advance a bold, new course for addressing urbanization globally and ensuring that UN-Habitat and the UN system are fit for purpose -- equipped with the requisite skills and resources needed to promote the equitable, environmentally sustainable and innovative cities of the future.
This work began with the successful outcome of Habitat 3 and the creation of a New Urban Agenda. I once again congratulate UN-Habitat and Member States for steering that process.
I thank the Secretary-General’s High Level Independent Panel to Assess UN-Habitat for developing substantive recommendations toward a reformed UN-Habitat and UN system.
I am grateful for UN-Habitat’s substantive support to the Panel, and the support provided by Member States.
The Panel worked within a very challenging time frame to deliver a report that makes a compelling case for the reform of the global development system to place cities at its centre, and particularly those living furthest behind in informal settlements.
The Panel responded to the Secretary-General’s request that it present bold recommendations for the reform of UN-Habitat and the effective implementation of the New Urban Agenda and the 2030 Agenda.
The Secretary-General has taken note of these recommendations and will be developing a concrete strategy to ensure that UN-Habitat is fit for purpose and that the reform of the development system, the peacekeeping system and the management of the United Nations incorporates a new approach to urban areas.
We believe UN-Habitat must play a leading role in ensuring that urban expertise is strong across all UN agencies.
Currently, too much of the urban work in the UN system is fragmented and delivering insufficient results.
This must change and UN-Habitat’s reform should go hand-in-hand with ensuring that there is greater coherence and collaboration across all the UN system urban work.
This may come in the form of an UN-Urban coordinating mechanism that brings cross-sectoral capacities together and bolsters operational urban work. We believe UN-Habitat is the right vehicle to coordinate such a mechanism.
The Panel also recommends that UN-Habitat’s regional offices achieve greater alignment with the Regional Economic Commissions, which we encourage.
This will enable the Secretary-General’s vision for a coherent policy voice at the regional level to prioritize urbanization.
We would also like to see a new generation of UN Country Team drawing on UN expertise to work in cities and with local authorities, to support Member States to implement the New Urban Agenda and all the Sustainable Development Goals in urban areas.
The proposal for a sustainable urbanization fund is also worthy of consideration.
Lastly, I applaud the Panel’s strong call that a future UN-Habitat must focus on both leaving no one behind and a territorial approach, which strengthens the connection between rural and urban environments, to urbanization and urban programmes.
Excellencies,
Ladies and gentlemen,
The United Nations Development System began much of its important work in urban areas.
After the end of the Second World War, the UN worked with Member States to assist refugees living in cities to obtain life-ensuring food and basic services.
Multiple UN agencies over the past 70 years have developed innovative urban programmes, including provisioning water and sanitation services in slums, developing surveys to capture the furthest behind living in cities, and responding to and preventing urban conflicts.
The commitment of the UN to urban areas continued with the creation of UN-Habitat approximately three decades ago.
Today, we acknowledge that the UN is not delivering sufficiently in our cities.
And, through our common effort, we will rectify this.
Over the next two days and throughout this fall, as Member States determine how the New Urban Agenda will be implemented, I count on a renewed commitment of the UN to lead in urban areas.
The proud history of urban work at the UN must be harnessed at this vital time, and the UN must be seen again as the lead convener and catalyser for partners, funders, academics, private sector and civil society organisations to scale up their work in urban areas. UN-Habitat can be the lead and arrowhead for this urban reinvigoration of the United Nations.
I look forward to learning about the outcomes of this meeting, and expect that it will lead to concrete recommendations, ideas and consensus on a future that will lead the transition to a more sustainable urban world.
Thank you.
Source:
Ladies and gentlemen,
Distinguished guests,
First of all, I would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this meeting.
I also want to especially recognize the Member States in New York and Nairobi for their participation in this meeting and their strong role in ensuring that a future UN-Habitat will be robust and able to carry out the 2030 Agenda and SDG implementation.
Last but not least, I would like to thank the Executive Director and Deputy Executive Director of UN-Habitat and the agency’s staff for its diligent work towards reform and for being with us today.
I am pleased to open this two-day High Level session and welcome such prominent leaders and experts to this meeting. We are all well aware of the importance and key role of cities and urbanization for sustainable development, peace and security.
Today, the majority of people, an estimated 4 billion, live in urban areas. By 2050, it could be 6 billion.
Cities are hubs of promise, jobs, technology and economic development. When built with low-emission development in mind, they are the most environmentally sustainable habitats possible – showcasing the safest and most efficient public transport systems and energy conserving buildings and homes in the world.
Over 80 per cent of the global GDP is generated in urban areas, and they are where most new ideas, innovations, inventions and collaborations are taking place, especially with our young people.
But, as well as being centres of promise and innovation, cities are also the epicentre of many of the challenges of sustainability.
They are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption.
They are home to the majority of the world’s refugees, where disasters strike hardest, and often flashpoints of social unrest and conflict.
It is clear that it is in cities where the battle for sustainability will be won or lost.
Cities are the organizing mechanisms of the twenty-first century. They are where young people in all parts of the world flock to develop new skills, attain new jobs, and find opportunities in which to innovate and create their futures.
They are the hotbeds of diversity, attracting new talent and migration, in an ever-constant mix of culture, knowledge, ideas that require a new way of working and collaborating to explore new opportunities and solutions to the many problems.
Cities encourage their residents to be always working toward increased respect, tolerance, vibrant and generous coexistence.
This is what will lay the foundation that will make the goals of 2030 Agenda a reality.
Sadly, to date, the global response to the promise of urbanization has been inadequate.
Urban programmes and policies often neglect the important linkages between city centres, peri-urban settlements and rural livelihoods.
Meanwhile, urban inequalities are growing in both the global south and north.
The urban share of global poverty is rising, and many cities are struggling to provide the most basic of services as their populations surge.
Even though many of the challenges like proper urban planning, inadequate climate early warning and resilience measures, are being felt most acutely in the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, sustainable urbanization is a growing and global challenge.
The recent tragic climate related events in Houston, Freetown, Karachi and Mumbai are some of the cases in point.
It is important that the UN system becomes better equipped to support Member States to develop a new paradigm for sustainable urbanization.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the most ambitious agenda ever set forth for humanity. It requires a UN system and staff equipped with nimbleness, capacities and skills to carry forward its ambitions.
The Secretary-General is working with member states on the reform of the UN system and see the reform of UN-Habitat as an important litmus test for ambition
This meeting is a chance to advance a bold, new course for addressing urbanization globally and ensuring that UN-Habitat and the UN system are fit for purpose -- equipped with the requisite skills and resources needed to promote the equitable, environmentally sustainable and innovative cities of the future.
This work began with the successful outcome of Habitat 3 and the creation of a New Urban Agenda. I once again congratulate UN-Habitat and Member States for steering that process.
I thank the Secretary-General’s High Level Independent Panel to Assess UN-Habitat for developing substantive recommendations toward a reformed UN-Habitat and UN system.
I am grateful for UN-Habitat’s substantive support to the Panel, and the support provided by Member States.
The Panel worked within a very challenging time frame to deliver a report that makes a compelling case for the reform of the global development system to place cities at its centre, and particularly those living furthest behind in informal settlements.
The Panel responded to the Secretary-General’s request that it present bold recommendations for the reform of UN-Habitat and the effective implementation of the New Urban Agenda and the 2030 Agenda.
The Secretary-General has taken note of these recommendations and will be developing a concrete strategy to ensure that UN-Habitat is fit for purpose and that the reform of the development system, the peacekeeping system and the management of the United Nations incorporates a new approach to urban areas.
We believe UN-Habitat must play a leading role in ensuring that urban expertise is strong across all UN agencies.
Currently, too much of the urban work in the UN system is fragmented and delivering insufficient results.
This must change and UN-Habitat’s reform should go hand-in-hand with ensuring that there is greater coherence and collaboration across all the UN system urban work.
This may come in the form of an UN-Urban coordinating mechanism that brings cross-sectoral capacities together and bolsters operational urban work. We believe UN-Habitat is the right vehicle to coordinate such a mechanism.
The Panel also recommends that UN-Habitat’s regional offices achieve greater alignment with the Regional Economic Commissions, which we encourage.
This will enable the Secretary-General’s vision for a coherent policy voice at the regional level to prioritize urbanization.
We would also like to see a new generation of UN Country Team drawing on UN expertise to work in cities and with local authorities, to support Member States to implement the New Urban Agenda and all the Sustainable Development Goals in urban areas.
The proposal for a sustainable urbanization fund is also worthy of consideration.
Lastly, I applaud the Panel’s strong call that a future UN-Habitat must focus on both leaving no one behind and a territorial approach, which strengthens the connection between rural and urban environments, to urbanization and urban programmes.
Excellencies,
Ladies and gentlemen,
The United Nations Development System began much of its important work in urban areas.
After the end of the Second World War, the UN worked with Member States to assist refugees living in cities to obtain life-ensuring food and basic services.
Multiple UN agencies over the past 70 years have developed innovative urban programmes, including provisioning water and sanitation services in slums, developing surveys to capture the furthest behind living in cities, and responding to and preventing urban conflicts.
The commitment of the UN to urban areas continued with the creation of UN-Habitat approximately three decades ago.
Today, we acknowledge that the UN is not delivering sufficiently in our cities.
And, through our common effort, we will rectify this.
Over the next two days and throughout this fall, as Member States determine how the New Urban Agenda will be implemented, I count on a renewed commitment of the UN to lead in urban areas.
The proud history of urban work at the UN must be harnessed at this vital time, and the UN must be seen again as the lead convener and catalyser for partners, funders, academics, private sector and civil society organisations to scale up their work in urban areas. UN-Habitat can be the lead and arrowhead for this urban reinvigoration of the United Nations.
I look forward to learning about the outcomes of this meeting, and expect that it will lead to concrete recommendations, ideas and consensus on a future that will lead the transition to a more sustainable urban world.
Thank you.
Source:
5 September 2017
Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at High Level Meeting on the New Urban Agenda and UN-HABITAT [as delivered]
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'New Urban Agenda,' reform of UN-Habitat take spotlight at high-level General Assembly talks
“The proud history of urban work at the UN must be harnessed at this vital time, and the UN must be seen again as the lead convener and catalyser for partners, funders, private sector and civil society organisations to scale up their work in urban areas,” she added, stressing the need for reform of the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). The meeting will discuss how the New Urban Agenda” has been implemented since its adoption in October 2016 at the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, known as Habitat III, while examining the recommendations put forth by an independent panel reviewing the effectiveness of UN-Habitat. It will also address the measures contained in the Report of the Secretary General's Independent Panel to Assess, Enhance Effectiveness of UN-Habitat after Adoption of New Urban Agenda, which was published at the beginning of August 2017. It is clear that it is in cities where the battle for sustainability will be won or lost Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed The outcome will serve as an input to the General Assembly's main body dealing with economic and financial issues the (Second Committee), which will consider action to be taken in the light of these recommendations during its forthcoming substantive session this fall. Ms. Mohammed noted that by 2050, 70 per cent of the world's population could be living in urban areas. While cities are hubs of promise, jobs, technology and economic development, they are also the epicentre of greenhouse gas emissions and many of the challenges of sustainability. “It is clear that it is in cities where the battle for sustainability will be won or lost,” she said. In his remarks, General Assembly President Peter Thomson stressed the importance of capitalizing on the enormous social and economic opportunities provided by mass urbanisation to lift people out of poverty, drive inclusive economic growth, promote equality, strengthen community resilience, and of course, effectively combat climate change. “To do so we have to increase global awareness of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda, particularly among policy makers and the global public,” he said. Secondly, strategic partnerships have to be strengthened between governments at all levels, community leaders, civil society, and the business community, to foster coherent approaches to urban development. Then there is the task of harnessing the exponential potential of science, technology, and innovation to drive smart new approaches towards sustainable urbanisation and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Mr. Thomson said. And finally, the UN system must be able to effectively serve Member States in achieving these universal agendas, with UN-Habitat strongly positioned to support implementation of the New Urban Agenda, he said. Joan Clos, Executive Director of UN-Habitat, also addressed the meeting. In the Panel's assessment, the first priority is to save, stabilize and then rapidly strengthen UN-Habitat to equip it for a renewed role based on the 2030 Agenda, adopted in 2015, as well as the New Urban Agenda. The panel recommends, among others, that 'UN Urban' be established as a coordinating mechanism similar to UN-Water or UN-Energy, as part of system-wide UN reform, with a small secretariat based in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in New York."
Source: United Nations News Centre - 'New Urban Agenda,' reform of UN-Habitat take spotlight at high-level General Assembly talks: "5 September 2017 – The United Nations deputy chief today said that the Organization is failing to deliver sufficiently in cities, and its work in and on urban areas must be reinvigorated, as the General Assembly kicked off a high-level meeting on a new UN approach to the rapidly urbanizing world. “Today, we acknowledge that the UN is not delivering sufficiently in cities. And, through our common effort, we will rectify this,” said Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed in her opening remarks to the two-day event.
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Source: United Nations News Centre - 'New Urban Agenda,' reform of UN-Habitat take spotlight at high-level General Assembly talks: "5 September 2017 – The United Nations deputy chief today said that the Organization is failing to deliver sufficiently in cities, and its work in and on urban areas must be reinvigorated, as the General Assembly kicked off a high-level meeting on a new UN approach to the rapidly urbanizing world. “Today, we acknowledge that the UN is not delivering sufficiently in cities. And, through our common effort, we will rectify this,” said Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed in her opening remarks to the two-day event.
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Monday, August 28, 2017
WE THE PEOPLE #ACT4SDGS – UN SDG Action Campaign
WE THE PEOPLE #ACT4SDGS – UN SDG Action Campaign: "WE THE PEOPLE #ACT4SDGS 25 SEPTEMBER 2017 GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION On the occasion of the second anniversary of the SDGs on 25th September 2017 we are calling for actions across the world to tell people about the global goals and tell our leaders how they are performing. The UN SDG Action Campaign, the World We Want and national coalitions of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) are joining forces to invite civil society, volunteers and citizens around the world to send a strong signal to leaders about the importance of the SDGs and what needs to be done two years after the signing of the goals. We are calling for you to join us in the Global Day of Action. Your actions, both big and small can help. Become part of this global movement. Help turn promises into reality. REGISTER TO JOIN THE GLOBAL DAY AMPLIFY THE CALL TO ACTION: TELL YOUR LEADERS HOW WE ARE DOING: ORGANIZE AN EVENT IN YOUR COMMUNITY: JOIN US AND PUT YOURSELF ON THE MAP FOR THE GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION. WE THE PEOPLE TAKE ACTION FOR THE SDGS 25 SEPTEMBER 2017 Please see more information about the Global Day and start planning your activities for the 25 September 2017. A partner toolkit will also be sent to registered participants in the coming weeks. You can also learn more about the Global Day of Action – participate in one of the webinars: English Webinar: 30 August, 11:00 (GMT) | Register Spanish Webinar: 30 August, 14:00 (GMT) | Register French Webinar: 4 September, 10:00 (GMT) | Register"
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Thursday, August 3, 2017
Peace Innovation: fCAT: Arts: LEGO's Piece of Peace World Tour, an exhibition of 44 LEGO replicas of UNESCO world heritage sites...
Peace Innovation: fCAT: Arts: LEGO's Piece of Peace World Tour, an exhibition of 44 LEGO replicas of UNESCO world heritage sites...:
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..made with a total of nearly half a million LEGO bricks and built in a collective time of six man-years. Guest-of-honour and Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Ms Grace Fu, later unveiled the latest LEGO replica exhibit of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, which was built in commemoration of ASEAN’s 50th anniversary. Fu, who is also the chairman of the Singapore National Commission for UNESCO, said in her opening address that she hopes the exhibition will “help to draw more visitors to the rest of ASEAN” as the region “offers an enormous richness of attractions”. Other than the UNESCO heritage sites exhibition (see slideshow), visitors can also build their own Singapore-inspired creation using white LEGO bricks. There is also a play zone where kids can role-play as police officers, and even play in their own ‘kitchen’. The Piece of Peace world tour runs from 27 July to 3 September at the Fort Canning Arts Centre from 10am to 9pm on Mondays to Thursdays, and from 10am to 12 midnight on Fridays, weekends and public holidays. Ticket prices start from $13. Only 1,800 visitors will be permitted per day. More information can be found on their official website.
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Monday, July 31, 2017
PEACE LEADERSHIP on Climate Change
PEACE LEADERSHIP on Climate Change: "How To Open And Sustain A Loving Heart
"Set Your Intention Sitting in a quiet and safe place start bringing your attention to your breath. Start to come into awareness of how long and deep each draw is. Bring your attention to your sternum, feel the rise and fall. Smile to yourself and thank yourself for taking the time to love yourself. As you come into a meditative state set your intention. Your intention here will be a two part statement. One aspect of it will be addressing your immediate crisis or need. For example, recognizing the end of a relationship or ending a cycle of self-perception that is harming you. The second part will be a long term intention, one meant to help enforce and keep your sense of love and appreciation. The last time I did this, my intention looked a lot like: ‘I am honoring the pain inside me, it is a result of intended love and I won’t let it stray to hurt me anymore. I will learn from this experience and not shy away from my potential in the future.’ Recognize What Is Affecting Your Heart As you visualize your heart energy, pay attention as equally as you can to both the positive and negative elements affecting it. Seek out the sources of hurt, who caused them? How did you feel, specifically? As you find the factors that are causing you discomfort forgive the person or concept that trespassed on your sensibilities. Then forgive your self. You are human and have every right to feel the way you do. Besides now you are taking the time to better yourself and your reactions. What else could you want from yourself? After you have acknowledged and forgiven the last step is to let go. Don’t push the formation away but stop paying it more attention than needed. Finishing the relationship on your terms only works if you stop feeding more energy into it. Forgive Any Second Stage Emotions You Don’t Care For This is reiterating the letting go aspect. It’s easy to remember an upsetting situation and getting twisted up over it all over again. Stop the cycle now! Make the last interaction between you and these formations a positive one. Then remind yourself that you are above this conflict now. Breathe and turn away from it. Don’t fill your time with running from or pushing it away. Let it hang out in the living room of your heart throwing it scraps of love. It will eventually dissipate. Affirm Your Inherent Worth And Beauty As part of your higher emotions your self-worth is something nothing can ever affect. No matter what anyone says, how any one treats you, or mistakes that you’ve made, NOTHING changes how important and beautiful you are. At times, with enough negativity clogging your heart chakra it may seem like our self-worth is in decline. This is just our perceptions. Take the time to remember that no matter how bad things seem now you are an infinite being. This means you have infinite mess ups and infinite ways to grow as a result. That fact that you recognize your need for self-love and are taking the time to address it productively should help bolster the concept of your potential. Experiment With Your Vibration’s Frequency So you’ve if identified, acknowledged, loved, forgiven, cried at, (hopefully) giggled a little at the independent elements that are affecting your heart space. The tinkering and tuning stage is over time to hook your chakra back up to the chest. Turn your attention from the nitty gritty to the sum that is you. Think back to the different resonance levels you experienced. What do your vibrations look like now? Make connections to the ideas, people and mindsets that varied your vibrations. "
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"Set Your Intention Sitting in a quiet and safe place start bringing your attention to your breath. Start to come into awareness of how long and deep each draw is. Bring your attention to your sternum, feel the rise and fall. Smile to yourself and thank yourself for taking the time to love yourself. As you come into a meditative state set your intention. Your intention here will be a two part statement. One aspect of it will be addressing your immediate crisis or need. For example, recognizing the end of a relationship or ending a cycle of self-perception that is harming you. The second part will be a long term intention, one meant to help enforce and keep your sense of love and appreciation. The last time I did this, my intention looked a lot like: ‘I am honoring the pain inside me, it is a result of intended love and I won’t let it stray to hurt me anymore. I will learn from this experience and not shy away from my potential in the future.’ Recognize What Is Affecting Your Heart As you visualize your heart energy, pay attention as equally as you can to both the positive and negative elements affecting it. Seek out the sources of hurt, who caused them? How did you feel, specifically? As you find the factors that are causing you discomfort forgive the person or concept that trespassed on your sensibilities. Then forgive your self. You are human and have every right to feel the way you do. Besides now you are taking the time to better yourself and your reactions. What else could you want from yourself? After you have acknowledged and forgiven the last step is to let go. Don’t push the formation away but stop paying it more attention than needed. Finishing the relationship on your terms only works if you stop feeding more energy into it. Forgive Any Second Stage Emotions You Don’t Care For This is reiterating the letting go aspect. It’s easy to remember an upsetting situation and getting twisted up over it all over again. Stop the cycle now! Make the last interaction between you and these formations a positive one. Then remind yourself that you are above this conflict now. Breathe and turn away from it. Don’t fill your time with running from or pushing it away. Let it hang out in the living room of your heart throwing it scraps of love. It will eventually dissipate. Affirm Your Inherent Worth And Beauty As part of your higher emotions your self-worth is something nothing can ever affect. No matter what anyone says, how any one treats you, or mistakes that you’ve made, NOTHING changes how important and beautiful you are. At times, with enough negativity clogging your heart chakra it may seem like our self-worth is in decline. This is just our perceptions. Take the time to remember that no matter how bad things seem now you are an infinite being. This means you have infinite mess ups and infinite ways to grow as a result. That fact that you recognize your need for self-love and are taking the time to address it productively should help bolster the concept of your potential. Experiment With Your Vibration’s Frequency So you’ve if identified, acknowledged, loved, forgiven, cried at, (hopefully) giggled a little at the independent elements that are affecting your heart space. The tinkering and tuning stage is over time to hook your chakra back up to the chest. Turn your attention from the nitty gritty to the sum that is you. Think back to the different resonance levels you experienced. What do your vibrations look like now? Make connections to the ideas, people and mindsets that varied your vibrations. "
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Wellness Pilipinas International: World Hepatitis Summit World Hepatitis Summit 201...
Wellness Pilipinas International: World Hepatitis Summit World Hepatitis Summit 201...: WHO | Eliminate hepatitis: WHO : "GENEVA - New WHO data from 28 countries - representing approximately 70% of the global hepatitis burd..."GENEVA - New WHO data from 28 countries - representing approximately 70% of the global hepatitis burden - indicate that efforts to eliminate hepatitis are gaining momentum. Published to coincide with World Hepatitis Day, the data reveal that nearly all 28 countries have established high-level national hepatitis elimination committees (with plans and targets in place) and more than half have allocated dedicated funding for hepatitis responses. On World Hepatitis Day, WHO is calling on countries to continue to translate their commitments into increased services to eliminate hepatitis. This week, WHO has also added a new generic treatment to its list of WHO-prequalified hepatitis C medicines to increase access to therapy, and is promoting prevention through injection safety: a key factor in reducing hepatitis B and C transmission. From commitment to Action "It is encouraging to see countries turning commitment into action to tackle hepatitis." said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. "Identifying interventions that have a high impact is a key step towards eliminating this devastating disease. Many countries have succeeded in scaling-up the hepatitis B vaccination. Now we need to push harder to increase access to diagnosis and treatment." World Hepatitis Day 2017 is being commemorated under the theme "Eliminate Hepatitis" to mobilize intensified action towards the health targets in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. In 2016, the World Health Assembly endorsed WHO’s first global health sectors strategy on viral hepatitis to help countries scale up their responses. The new WHO data show that more than 86% of countries reviewed have set national hepatitis elimination targets and more than 70% have begun to develop national hepatitis plans to enable access to effective prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care services. Furthermore, nearly half of the countries surveyed are aiming for elimination through providing universal access to hepatitis treatment. But WHO is concerned that progress needs to speed up. "The national response towards hepatitis elimination is gaining momentum. However, at best one in ten people who are living with hepatitis know they are infected and can access treatment. This is unacceptable," said Dr Gottfried Hirnschall, WHO's Director of the HIV Department and Global Hepatitis Programme. "For hepatitis elimination to become a reality, countries need to accelerate their efforts and increase investments in life-saving care. There is simply no reason why many millions of people still have not been tested for hepatitis and cannot access the treatment for which they are in dire need." Viral hepatitis affected 325 million people worldwide in 2015, with 257 million people living with hepatitis B and 71 million people living with hepatitis C - the two main killers of the five types of hepatitis. Viral hepatitis caused 1.34 million deaths in 2015 – a figure close to the number of TB deaths and exceeding deaths linked to HIV. Improving access to hepatitis C cure Hepatitis C can be completely cured with direct acting antivirals (DAAs) within 3 months. However, as of 2015, only 7% of the 71 million people with chronic hepatitis C had access to treatment. WHO is working to ensure that DAAs are affordable and accessible to those who need them. Prices have dropped dramatically in some countries (primarily in some high-burden, low-and lower middle income countries), facilitated by the introduction of generic versions of these medicines. The list of DAAs available to countries for treating hepatitis C is growing. WHO has just prequalified the first generic version of one of these drugs: sofosbuvir. The average price of the required three-month treatment course of this generic is between US$260 and US$280, a small fraction of the original cost of the medicine when it first went on the market in 2013. WHO prequalification guarantees a product’s quality, safety and efficacy and means it can now be procured by the United Nations and financing agencies such as UNITAID, which now includes medicines for people living with HIV who also have hepatitis C in the portfolio of conditions it covers. Hepatitis B treatment With high morbidity and mortality globally, there is great interest also in the development of new therapies for chronic hepatitis B virus infection. The most effective current hepatitis B treatment, tenofovir, (which is not curative and which in most cases needs to be taken for life), is available for as low as $48 per year in many low and middle income countries. There is also an urgent need to scale up access to hepatitis B testing. Improving injection safety and infection prevention to reduce new cases of hepatitis B and C Use of contaminated injection equipment in health-care settings accounts for a large number of new HCV and HBV infections worldwide, making injection safety an important strategy.Others include preventing transmission through invasive procedures, such as surgery and dental care; increasing hepatitis B vaccination rates and scaling up harm reduction programmes for people who inject drugs. Today WHO is launching a range of new educational and communication tools to support a campaign entitled "Get the Point-Make smart injection choices" to improve injection safety in order to prevent hepatitis and other bloodborne infections in health-care settings."
/New WHO data reveal that an estimated 325 million people worldwide are living with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The WHO Global hepatitis report, 2017 indicates that the large majority of these people lack access to life-saving testing and treatment. As a result, millions of people are at risk of a slow progression to chronic liver disease, cancer, and death. The report was launched at the International Liver Congress 2017.
/New WHO data reveal that an estimated 325 million people worldwide are living with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The WHO Global hepatitis report, 2017 indicates that the large majority of these people lack access to life-saving testing and treatment. As a result, millions of people are at risk of a slow progression to chronic liver disease, cancer, and death. The report was launched at the International Liver Congress 2017.
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