International Association of World Peace Advocates

International Association of World Peace Advocates

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International Association of World Peace Advocates (IAWPA) is a civil society arm of the United Nations with the mandate to promote peace and appoint people as peace makers across the 193 member states of the United Nations. Following the recommendation by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs on the comprehensive trust worthy engagement of International Association of World Peace Advocates to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, the Council on the 12th of June 2019 granted Special Consultative Status to the association.

The status has since then afforded the organization the legality to partner and collaborate with all United Nations Agencies, Funds, and Programmes to better the workings of the United Nations anywhere in the world for peace and sustainable development. In addition to the ECOSOC Status, IAWPA is also a member of the United Nations Global Compact on Active Participant Status 30511.

Mandate

International Association of World Peace Advocates is an organization of business technocrats, innovators, social entrepreneurs, and highly professional persons who have pledged to uphold the highest ethical standard of the United Nations and have been so consistent in providing solutions that will make the world a better place. The members of the International Association of World Peace Advocates believe that world peace can easily be achieved by dialogue and by the act of fellowshipping together as a concerned people with mutual feelings of uniting under one indivisible banner of the name United Nations.

The mandate of IAWPA is to enhance the effectiveness of the UN Millennium Development Goals (now the Sustainable Development Goals) and UNESCO Culture of Peace Program particularly the maintenance of global peace and international security and the restoration of human dignity. The association has maintained a track record that is second to none in area of promoting the United Nations peace objectives and commemoration of the United International Observance Days in the world.

The two main functions of IAWPA are: Advocacy for Peace and Ensuring Sustainable Development. The association works through country offices to appoint volunteers, peacemakers, peace advocates, peace ambassadors, and promote the United Nations idea of volunteers around the world.

The International Association of World Peace Advocate’s strength lies on its volunteers of thousands of professionals who in each year bring skills to communities within their borders or abroad to help local people become the driving force of their own communities. They come from more than 190 countries and nearly two thirds of them are from the developing world with an average age of 39 with strong academic potentials to work for humanity.

Almost everywhere one turns in the developing world, UN-International Association of World Peace Advocates are experts in well over 100 professional fields, they help to promote peace, organize peaceful elections, bring emergency relief, promote human rights, improve health facilities, teach peace, render first aids, promote gender equality and protect the environments.

Reality of purpose

Since 2012 thousands of UN-International Association of World Peace Advocates have been promoting peace through organizing of peace education, peace workshop and hosting various UN-SDG anniversaries in countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Botswana, Togo, Denmark, Gambia, and South Africa etc.

IAWPA is responding to a changing world by moving into new fields of development from war, violence, unemployment, poverty, and inequality to addressing current problem facing the world such as cybercrime, global health challenges, and flood disasters with a view to providing unending solution for a better world.

UN-International Association of World Peace Advocates do carryout development activities at the grassroots and provide partnership with government institutions and the private sectors and UN agencies around the globe. IAWPA also works with non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in all parts of the world.

UN-International Association of World Peace Advocates preaches peace by bringing the United Nations to communities where such awareness never existed; the association builds stronger neighborhoods and restores peace. By virtue of the United Nations Charter, they are mandated to combat poverty and foster self-reliance and to help villages or groups to develop a stronger voice and visibility in the political arena.

Major partners of the International Association of World Peace Advocates include the UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN High Commissioners for Human Rights and for Refugees (UNHCR), UN Peacekeeping Operations (UNDPKO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Children Fund (UNICEF), the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and United Nations Volunteer (UNV).

Goals, aims, and objectives

The objectives of the International Association of World Peace Advocates includes:

1. To defend human rights and restore dignity to all persons.

2. To contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among groups and individuals through culture and education.

3. To enhance the position of togetherness and family heads through recognition as Peace Advocates for proper family upbringing.

4. To recognize people (both late and alive) as legends and to encourage, the present generation for peace sustainable development.

5. To stimulate reactions in all spheres of life with regard to achieving peace in our society.

6. To connect personalities of high repute to participate in United Nations seminars and conferences around the globe.

7. To bring the presence of the United Nations at the grassroots across 193 countries of the United Nations.

8. To hold governments and world leaders into account on the implementation and achieving sustainable development.

9. To promote United Nations Career Development at various institutions of learning.

10. To ensure the realization of the United Nations Charter leaving no one behind.

11. To establish SDG chapters in churches, schools and in formal and informal organizations.

Vision

To be the best in promoting the universal principle of United Nations Global Peace Mission at the International, Regional, National and grassroots levels.

Mission

To ensure that peace strives in all sectors of human endeavors across the 193 member states of the United Nations for social-economic development, investment and provision of assistance to internally displaced persons and physically challenged people in the society.

Core value

To promote peace, enthrone tranquility and make local dwellers agent of peace for global positive social change.

Ethical practice

To discourage violence and disunity using dialogue as an instrument for peace, prosperity, and progress.

Principal organs

The principal organs or governing body of the International Association of World Peace Advocates (IAWPA) are:

• General Assembly
• Trusteeship Council
• Senate
• Executive Board
• Award Screening Council
• The Secretariat

General Assembly

The General Assembly meets every two years to set the organization policies at work. It takes decisions on programmes submitted to it by the Executive Board and approves the budget and funding.

Executive board

The Executive Board is made up of well-focused and committed Chartered Peace Advocates appointed by the Director General. It meets 4 or 6 times a year or as need arises and supervises the execution of International Association of World Peace Advocates' Programes in any country of host.

The secretariat

The Secretariat which implements the programes consists of a Secretary General and officials representing all the states/members countries.

Other activities include monitoring, analysis, preparations of reports and meetings of various kinds. A number of Permanent Commissions and Committees exist to assist the board in its functions.

Appointments

• International Mayor for Peace/Peace Prize Award
• Eminent Peace Ambassador
• Peace Medal Award
• Chartered Peace Advocate
• SDG Champion Award
• Youth Peace Ambassador

International community memberships

• Humanitarian ID Community
• World Food Programme Online Community
• Humanitarian Data Exchange
• Action for Sustainable Development
• SDG Action Team

United Nations

• United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, CATEGORY: Social Association
• United Nations Global Compact, Active Status 30511, UNGC
• United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, UNOHCHR
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC
• United Nations Convention Against Crime, UNCAC
• United Nations Women, UNW
• United Nations Volunteering Service, UNVS

United Nations Committee Membership

• United Nations Alliance of Democracy, UNAOC
• United Nations Public Administration Network, UNPAN
• United Nations Networks of Men Leaders to End Violence Against Women, Instituted by Ban Ki-moon
• Vienna NGO Committee
• NGO Committee on Status of Women
• NGO Committee on Social Development
• NGO Committee on Sustainable Development
• NGO Committee for Women for Peace and Security
• UNESCO On-line Youth Community Membership

United Nations NGO major group mambership

• United Nations Open Ended Working Group on the Rights of the Elderly
• United Nations Major Group for Children and Youths
• World Federation for the Elderly

International affiliation

• International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapon, ICAN
• International Civil Society Action Network
• Global Alliance for the Rights of the Older People
• International Federation of Ageing
• National Peace Corps Association
• Amnesty International (International Membership Status)
• United National Women for Peace Association
• Peace Direct
• Peace One Day
• International Peace Bureau
• CIVICUS Alliance South Africa

United Nations media relations

• United Nations Photos/Multimedia Family
• United Nations Library
• United Nations Publications
• UNESCO Digital Library
• United Nations Digital Library
• UN Web TV

Membership with UN campaigns

• United Nations Campaign: Say No to Violence Against Women Campaign, instituted by Ban Ki-moon
• United Nations Millennium Campaign Partner
• United Nations Team-Works
• Knowledge Gate-Way For Women Economic Empowerment
• UN Women Beijing + 20 Campaign Team
• End Poverty Campaign
• Shot At Life Campaign
• Better Life Campaign

International memberships/associations

• United Nations Association of United States of America
• World Federation of United Nations Association
• United Nations Association of Nigeria
• United State Association of NEW-YORK
• Conference of Non-governmental Organizations, CoNGO
• Nigeria Network of NGOs

Climate change

• United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change, UNFCCC
• Paris Agreement
• Climate Match

Invitations for events participation

• Civil Society Organisation on High Level Political Forum on sustainable Development Organised 20th July 2016
• Organizations registered for the 10 February 2016 Informal Interactive Stakeholder Consultation for UNGASS 2016

Signed international letters/movements

• Peoples Climate March - 27th March 2017. Venue: Washington DC.
• Signed Letter to Antonio Guteress - 24th March 2017. Through: UN Women.
• Signed Letter to the President of the UNGASS on the Shrinking Space of the CSO at the UN

External links

• IAWPA on blogspot
• IAWPA on Facebook
• IAWPA on Twitter
• IAWPA on instagram
• IAWPA website

This page exists already on Wikipedia.

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