Azerbaijan Ombudsman Calls for UPF to Help in Dispute with Armenia

Here’s an odd one (emphasis added): Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova said that day was one of the saddest days in the history of Azerbaijan. Elmira Suleymanova said she had prepared a statement concerning the genocide and informed the world community of the document. The statement has been sent to UN Secretary General, UN High Commissioner for [...]

From 2004: Ex-President of Uganda in Unificationist Wedding

This is old news and not directly about the UPF, but I only just stumbled on it and I wanted to keep a clipping, since it’s a strange tale. From My Uganda, 2004: KAMPALA — It is billed the wedding of the year with former president Godfrey Binaisa, 84, wedding Tomoko Yamamoto, 56, yesterday at [...]

Meet Ambassador Ibn Chambas

From the Nigeria Tide: Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the President of ECOWAS Commission, has been honoured with the title of Ambassador of Peace for his contributions to the restoration of peace in the sub-region. A statement from the Commission Thursday in Abuja said that the honour was bestowed on Chambas by the Universal Peace Foundation [...]

One Family Under God

A slick video that promotes the Universal Peace Federation and Rev. Moon: An unslick video that fails to promote Rev. Moon (via, of course, John Gorenfeld):

Pepsi and UPF Promote “One Family Under God” in Nepal

A couple of weeks ago I noted a UPI report which described how two major business groups from Nepal — Pepsi Co. and the Chaudhary Group — have joined hands with two key nonprofit NGOs — Project Healing Touch of India and the Universal Peace Federation of Nepal — to offer a solution to a [...]

More on Paraguay Conference

The UPF newsletter has more on the recent UPF conference in Paraguay, which received media and blog attention due to the involvement of Neil Bush: This conference built on a similar conference held in Uruguay in January. Jose Maria Sanguinetti, the former Uruguayan president, addressed a special session held in the congress of Paraguay, underscoring [...]

UPF Promotes “Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities”

The UPI reports on “a forum of diplomats, intellectuals and peace activists organized by the Japanese Chapter of the Universal Peace Federation in Tokyo”. The keynote speaker was veteran diplomat Nagao Hyodo, who enthused that “the interfaith movement is an important paradigm in establishing a universally acceptable ethical code of conduct” and threw his weight [...]