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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…