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International Peace Commission
Cairo, 23 February 2004
Dear Friends,
The Permanent Secretariat of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation-AAPSO- is happy to note that, with the International Peace Commission (IPC) newly emerged, the peace movement is being reinforced worldwide. AAPSO hails this event and wishes IPC a successful struggle for the noble cause of humanity.
Trafficking in human beings as a form and manifestation of modern slavery
Trafficking in human beings as a form and manifestation of modern slavery
At the dawn of the XXIst Century the world continues to be plagued by the phenomenon of human trafficking. Its widespread dissemination all over the world is a matter of great concerns for the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation-AAPSO-since it embraces several fields of the social fabrics, manifesting in different forms in human activities: trade and commerce, tourism, agricultural exploitations, entertainment activities, all are object of such abominable practices as human trafficking.
the World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, both at the UN Conference and the NGO Forum
The Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation-AAPSO-enjoys the consultative status of ECOSOC. It participated at the World Conference against Racism (WCR) in Durban, South Africa, both at the UN Conference and the NGO Forum
Attention Ms Sandra
Aragon UNOG-OHCHR,1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland 5 June, 2004
Fax: 41-22-917 90 50
Although the institutionalized apartheid in South Africa had ended with the establishment of non-racial, democratic South Africa, the remnants of racism is still lingering in diverse forms.
The glaring example of racist practices is happening in Israel with the genocide policy of killing, perpetration of massacres,
Corruption As A Worldwide Plague
CORRUPTION AS A WORLDWIDE PLAGUE ( Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization's-AAPSO- contribution to the Session of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Negotiation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption)
One of the major factors which lead to the destruction of the social fabrics including economic and cultural environment of a given country is rightly attributed to corruption. As its motivation consists of maximization of profit-gain in many specific circumstances, the results have huge, direct or indirect impact on the economic and development behavior of that country. Consequently, the dimension attained by
21 March International Day against Racism
21 March International Day against Racism and Racial Discrimination
At the outset of the New Millennium, the consequences of putting an end to the institutionalized apartheid in South Africa, had turned out to irony: racism has not disappeared from the world but has dispersed across our planet and manifests itself in diverse, subtle an even dangerous forms and continues to be felt within the political, economic and social life of many categories of peoples in the world.
10 December: Human Rights
10 DECEMBER: HUMAN RIGHTS DAY MORE CHALLENGES - LESS RESPONSE !
At the outset of the new Millennium, the world is witnessing evidence that suggest hopes for a meaningful implementation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) have been overlooked. The multiple violations of these rights tend to tarnish the image of the United Nations as a sanctuary of virtues of humankind.
