Articles by Niovi Patsicakis

Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights.

The Foundation is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with consultative status to the United Nations and is comprised of over 60,000 individuals and groups worldwide who realize the imperative for peace in the Nuclear Age.

Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights.

Develops and supports networks of social justice contacts in the following action group areas: Antipoverty, Antiracism, Environmental Justice, LGBTQ, Peace and Global
Education, Status of Women

Building Bridges believes that positive change is possible for individuals and for societies. And, individuals in Building Bridges experience profound, permanent change.

The Culture of Peace News Network (CPNN) is a project of the Global Movement for a Culture of Peace, initiated by the United Nations, where readers exchange information about events, experiences, books, music, and web news that promote a culture of peace.

PeaceMaker challenges you to succeed as a leader where others have failed. Experience the joy of bringing peace to the Middle East or the agony of plunging the region into disaster. PeaceMaker will test your skills, assumptions and prior knowledge. Play it and you will never read the news the same way again.

The International Day of Peace, a.k.a. “Peace Day” provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date. In 1981, the United Nations General Assembly, by unanimous vote, adopted Resolution 36/67 establishing the International Day of Peace (IDP) which stated in part, “…to devote a specific time to concentrate the efforts of the United Nations and its Member States, as well as the whole of mankind, to promoting the ideals of peace and to giving positive evidence of their commitment to peace in all viable ways.”

UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) is one of the world’s best recognized charities for children and a leading advocate for children, helping to build a world where the rights of every child are realized. Unique among world organizations and among those working with the young, UNICEF has the global authority to influence decision-makers and the grassroots partnerships to turn innovative, life-saving ideas into reality.

Wide Open Exposure is a documentary production team based in Montreal made up of social justice organizers and media activists. They collaborate with different organizers to enrich the on-going grassroots efforts with relevant, vital media. They work with educators to bring critical independent film and video on issues of social, economic and environmental justice into the classroom.

At its core, feminism includes the beliefs that women matter, that equality matters, and that gender is a construct: the product of unequal power structures. When those structures have been changed and patriarchy ended, then we can have real equality and the possibility of sustainable peace: a feminist peace.