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World Health Summit fails to address underlying Pandemics, NCDs cause – Speciesism The 2023 United Nations World Health Organization World Health Summit in Berlin October 15 to 17 had the theme “A Defining Year For Global Health Action”.  There were 63 Sessions, 370 Speakers – 52% women and 48% men – and 3,100 participants from… Read more: Vegan International Newsletter Autumn 2023

New York: September 2023 Vegan International has been invited to participate in a High-Level event: For Nature and People: From Ambition to Action, by the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations, on behalf of the governments of Bhutan, Colombia, Costa Rica, European Union, France, Nigeria, United Kingdom and its partners.  This high-level event… Read more: Vegan International will advocate for a UN Convention Against Speciesism in New York and Berlin this Autumn.

Vegan International Spring 2023Newsletter “Some Lives Matter Less is the cause of most of what is wrong in the world”, said Christina Stefan, Director of the Institute of Global Health Equity Research, in her presentation at the World Health Summit in Washington DC last week.  “Equity is the only acceptable goal.  We all have the… Read more: “Some Lives Matter Less is the cause of most of what is wrong in the world”

Winter 2023 It is an undisputed fact documented by FAO that animal agriculture is the leading cause of Climate Change.  This was not only absent from discussions at the COP27 Conference, but according to an attendee, beef was served extensively.  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Report, Livestock’s Long Shadow documents the impacts of… Read more: <strong>Cognitive Dissonance at Sharm El-Sheikh. </strong>

Autumn 2022 “This year the World Health Summit is focusing particularly on the complex interdependency between climate change, food systems, digital transformation, peace and global health.”  Olaf Scholtz, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. “We are united around one goal: to end the pandemic while developing more equitable and sustainable models.”  Emanuel Macron, President… Read more: <strong>World Health Summit focused on complexity between Climate & Food. </strong>

Summer 2022 Vegan International Founder, Sharon L. Wallenberg, will participate in the United Nations World Health Organization World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany on October 16 to 18, 2022.  The World Health Summit and the United Nations World Health Organization have joined forces to organize the 2022 edition of one of the world’s leading international,… Read more: <strong>Vegan International will participate in UN WHO World Health Summit! </strong>

Spring 2022 The World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) published a report on baby milk formula which outlines baby formula manufacturer abuses. The 55 billion dollar a year baby milk formula industry’s unethical and aggressive marketing practices violate international regulations.  In addition, there are serious negative impacts of baby milk… Read more: <strong>Infant mortality/morbidity is related to dairy milk baby formula, and another lesser known issue, Neglected Tropical Diseases </strong>

Winter 2022 Speciesism – the exploitation of one species by another is the underlying cause of the (SARS) Covid-19 zoonotic pandemic which disrupted efforts to control other preventable diseases: malaria, polio, measles, cholera, has triggered the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, and has exacerbated worldwide inequities. “Health does not begin in a hospital or… Read more: <strong>Last year has seen an unparalleled health and economic crisis, exacerbated inequities, surge in preventable disease and violence, and a host of other preventable problems. </strong>

Autumn 2021 The International Day of Peace, observed around the world yearly every September, was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly.  In 2001, the U.N. General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the annual Day of Peace as a 24-hour period of non-violence and cease-fire devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace. This… Read more: <strong>International Day of Peace Should Apply To All Wars. </strong>

Summer 2021 This is the link for the video submitted by Vegan  International to the UN Food Summit:  https://twitter.com/EarthEthicsCtr/status/1417797687701823489?s=20 Vegan International has been invited to participate in the United Nations Food Summit by faith-based ECOSOC NGO, the Center For Earth Ethics.  One-minute videos from many organizations will be included in the Center For Earth Ethics… Read more: <strong>Vegan International Participates in UN Food Summit and Vegan Athlete Wins Sri Chimnoy Race!</strong>

Spring 2021 This is according to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres in a speech given recently at Columbia University, New York.  According to Guterres, ‘Humanity is waging war on nature, and nature always strikes back.  It is already doing so with growing force and fury.  In addition, the fallout of the assault on our… Read more: <strong>‘Making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21^st century’. </strong>

Winter 2021 No one can argue with the ideas discussed in the Climate Ambition Summit, five years after the Paris Agreement.  Coal consumption needs to be cut, dependence on fossil fuel needs to end, solar, wind, and hydro energy need to be promoted.  BUT THE SINGLE GREATEST CONTRIBUTOR TO CLIMATE CHANGE, METHANE FROM ANIMALS RAISED… Read more: <strong>The UN Climate Ambition Summit, (Dec. 12, 2020), the UN General Assembly 31^st Special Session – In Response To the Coronavirus Disease Covid-19 Pandemic (Dec. 4, 2020), and UN Summit on Biodiversity (Sept. 30, 2020), had one thing in common – THEY ALL MISSED THE POINT! </strong>

Autumn 2020 Covid-19 originated in a “Wet Market”, a place where individuals of another species are murdered for the profit of the human species.  This resulted in Covid-19, a zoonotic disease.  Zoonotic disease is the cause of many worldwide epidemics and pandemics including HIV AIDS, Ebola, SARS, MERS, Black Flu, Spanish Flu, Avian Flu, Swine… Read more: <strong>COVID-19 IS A SYMPTOM OF A LARGER PROBLEM: SPECIESISM </strong>

Summer 2020 Zoonotic diseases, the cause of most epidemics and pandemics, are caused by human – animal interaction.  Globally, many of the most serious infectious diseases are zoonotic, causing an estimated 3 million human deaths per year before the current Covid-19 pandemic.  A zoonotic disease is caused by a pathogen that jumps, or “spills over”,… Read more: <strong>Covid-19, a zoonotic disease, is the direct result of the unjust systematic abuse and exploitation of other species by the human species. </strong>

Spring 2020 Expectations were high at the start of 2020.  It started out full of promise, but now less than halfway through the year, there are currently more than 400,000 cases worldwide – in almost every country of the world – from the new corona virus pandemic.  The disease now named Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is… Read more: <strong>What caused Covid-19? </strong>

Winter 2020 This was a comment from Minister Kaouthar Chelbi before the meeting of Tunisian Ambassador Moncef Baati with Sharon Wallenberg, Founder of Vegan International. The meeting was a discussion of an innovative way to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): reduce climate change, pollution, hunger, species extinction, and others.  This new initiative is a… Read more: <strong>“People are dying from Climate Change in Africa”</strong>

Autumn 2019 United Nations Ambassador Ambroisine Kpongo of Central African Republic agreed to initiate a United Nations Convention Against Speciesism at a meeting with Vegan International Founder, Sharon Wallenberg, in New York on Wednesday, October 9, 2019.  Ambassador Kpongo has suggested contacting other African Nations using her name to gather additional support for the U… Read more: <strong>UN Convention Against Speciesism Becoming A Reality </strong>

Summer 2019 Unfortunately, not all the oppressed are in the position to demand their freedom or rights.  Sometimes it must be done on their behalf as in President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation which ultimately ended slavery.  Vegan International has initiated a United Nations Convention Against Speciesism on behalf of all the abused, victimized, and exploited… Read more: <strong>“Freedom is never voluntarily granted by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King, Jr. </strong>

Spring 2019 Vegan International is pleased to announce its new Worldwide Advisory Board Members, including one very special addition.  They are: Dr. Nandita Shah, India; Anita Kranjnc, Ph.D., Canada; and 269, Israel. In addition, future activities of Vegan International include working towards initiating a United Nations Convention Against Speciesism. New Vegan International Worldwide Advisory Board… Read more: <strong>Vegan International breaks the species barrier and seeks support at the United Nations for a Convention Against Speciesism. </strong>

Winter 2019 There is a direct relationship between climate change, human health, hunger, sustainable use of resources, pollution, and the exploitation of sentient beings.  To protect the defenseless, and reverse the damage this exploitation is causing, there needs to be a United Nations Convention Against Speciesism. International law has been a primary concern of the… Read more: <strong>A hotter world is a hungrier, dirtier, more violent world.  </strong>

“We The People – Finding Global Solutions for Global Problems”, the 67th United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) Non- Governmental Organizations (NGO) Conference was held at United Nations Headquarters in New York, August 22 -23, 2018. Those present committed themselves to foster people centered multilateralism to address global challenges, to uplift those whose human… Read more: <strong>Autumn 2018.  “We The People – Finding Global Solutions for Global Problems”, was the theme for the 67^th United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Conference</strong>

Summer 2018 The HLPF also reviewed progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and focused in particular on: SDG 6 – Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all SDG 7 – Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all SDG 11 – Make cities and human settlements inclusive,… Read more: The United Nations High Level Political Forum theme was “Transformation Towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies.”