FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
UN Alliance of Civilizations calls citizens worldwide to
Do ONE thing for Diversity and Inclusion through 2nd global campaign
New York May 16, 2012- In 2002 The UN General Assembly
declared May 21 as the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and
Development following the adoption in 2001 of the Universal Declaration on
Cultural Diversity by UNESCO.
To celebrate this Day, the United Nations Alliance of
Civilization (UNAOC) will be launching the second edition of the Do ONE Thing
for Diversity and Inclusion campaign in partnership with UNESCO. Based on the successful model of the Earth
Day that encourages people to take concrete action to preserve the planet, the
Do One Thing campaign invites people from around the world to do one thing to
support cultural diversity through cultural exchanges, music, food, cinema,
languages or art.
A dedicated Facebook page has been created as the main
vehicle of the campaign over the past year, visited and liked by millions of
people around the world.
Diversity, dialogue and development: these are three
magic Ds. Add a fourth D from Do one thing campaign and join us in creating a
positive narrative for our age of diversity. Living together in diversity
within tolerant and inclusive societies is indeed a dream. But action is what
dreams are made out of. Now is a time that we need action to produce results,
for with dreams become true just join us
in the Do One Thing Campaign! said President Jorge Sampaio, High Representative
for the UNAOC.
UNESCO is proud to be a partner in this campaign, stated
its Director-General, Irina Bokova.
Cultural diversity is something to be celebrated and enjoyed by people
everywhere. Not only does it provide
insight into the richness of the human experience, it is a hallmark of
tolerant, inclusive societies.
The second edition will add new features:
A world movement for Diversity: This year, the initiative
is supported by major corporate partners
including Intuit, Sodexo, Deloitte, Genentech, Dell, McAfee, American
Airlines, Vivendi, Major League of
Baseball and a wide coalition of NGOs
and civil society organizations from all over the world including Red Cross,
Civicus, SAGE Foundation (India), Global Dialogue Foundation (Australia), Akili
Dada (Africa), ALECSO (Middle East and Arab countries), Council of Europe,
Secretara General Iberoamericana, Vivario (Brazil) and Nishan Forum on World
Civilization(China), among others[i].
The activities: A video contest and a photo contest are
also organized at this occasion in partnership with the UNESCO Centre of
Florence with monetary and gifts provided by the partners of the campaign.
Videos from personalities all around the world are being posted on the Facebook
page each week and many events related to the campaign are being organized to
Do One Thing for Diversity and Inclusion.
To learn more visit: http://www.unaoc.org/actions/campaigns/do-one-thing-for-diversity-and-inclusion/
Contact:
Jean-Christophe Bas, Senior Advisor, UNAOC, Jeancb@unops.org, Marta Lopez, Campaign
Coordinator, UNAOC, martal@unops.org
Mauro Rosi, Communication, Knowledge Management and Partnerships, UNESCO, m.rosi@unesco.org
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