Our New Weekly Updates!

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4 min readMar 13, 2018

Hey guys, I wanted to tell you all about our new Nonviolence International-NY YouTube Channel !!!

From American politics to world peace and international disarmament,
this exciting channel is one of our newest ways to communicate with all of you about events going on all over the world.
We will be exploring various topics in addition to discussing what our different offices are up to, and covering NEW and exciting programs on the horizon for us as we continue our advocacy work.

This week’s Weekly Update talks about:

TEACHER’S STRIKE ENDS!

West Virginia’s 9-day teacher strike has ended, with the governor signing a law Tuesday to give teachers the 5% wage increase they had asked for. West Virginia ranks 48th in the nation in terms of teacher pay since the District of Columbia ranks above them. All 680 public schools in West Virginia had been shut down, but the teachers did make sure to pool resources and provide lunches for students who are usually on free or reduced lunch programs at the school.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/06/us/wes...

KOREAN NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS

After surprise negotiations with South Korea, North Korea may be willing to give up their nuclear weapons. Supposedly. North Korea also promised to refrain from testing missiles while the negotiations continue. The negotiations seem to be the first time Kim Jong-Un has met with South Korean leaders face-to-face since he took power in 2011. North Korea has clarified their statement to say that they would have no need for nuclear weapons if the nation’s safety were guaranteed. President Trump has said he believes the North Koreans to be sincere. While this is, in fact, possible and Kim Jong-Un’s appearance at the discussions is a great sign, it is important to note that North Korea promised in 1994 and 2005 to disarm their nuclear program,

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/06/asia/n... https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/07/politi...

GENOCIDE IN MYANMAR?

The UN Human Rights chief said last Wednesday that he suspects that Myanmar has carried out acts of genocide against the Rohingya Muslims. The 1948 Genocide Convention lists five actions that are considered acts of genocide: 1) Killing members of the group; (2) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (3) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (4) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (5) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. In the Convention, genocide is meant as the attempted destruction of a whole or part of a group based on ethnicity, religion, nationality, or race.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/... https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/...

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Last Thursday, the world celebrated International Women’s Day. Women marched, protested, and celebrated across the world from NYC to Rome. #PressForProgress

DEMOCRACY NOW! — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TWTX...

Our Involvement with NGOCSW 62

The sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women is taking place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 12 to 23 March 2018. While some events are private there will be events open to the public Where they will be discussing:
Priority theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls;
Review theme: Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women (agreed conclusions of the forty-seventh session);

HANDBOOK APP: https://guidebook.com/g/ngocsw62/ CSW62