Brief History of the Spiritual History of the United Nations


Brief Overview of the Spiritual History of the United Nations


"Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace." Dag Hammarskjöld, 2nd Secretary General. The United Nations was built on spiritual principles and universal values such as peace, human rights, human dignity, human worth, justice, respect, good neighbourliness and freedom.

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Brief History of NGO Committee CSVGC

History of CSVGC

On November 2000 a Spiritual Caucus was created at the United Nations in New York for the purpose of adding a spiritual and ethical component to the United Nations' work. On October 2001 a group comprised of Alfredo Sfeir-Younis, Renate Bloem and Astrid Stuckelberg set up a Spiritual Caucus in Geneva. On 24 October 2002 member NGOs applied to CoNGO for it to be made a standing Committee of CoNGO. The Application was supported by the regulatory number of over 20 Organisations in consultative status with ECOSOC which submitted it to the CoNGO Board at its Meeting in Vienna on 30-31October 2002, where it was discussed and adopted. Since this Committee has been officially adopted, NGOs that want to join are welcome. Following several months of work and discussions with organisations based in New York, the CSVGC in New York (www.csvgc-ny.org) came into being on February 27, 2004.

CSVGC Founding Member organisations in consultative status with the United Nations' Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

 

African Commission of Health and Human Rights Promoters - All India Women's Conference - Anglican Consultative Council - Art of Living Foundation - Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University - 3HO Foundation - Institute of Global Education - Institute for Planetary Synthesis - Interfaith International - International Association of 3rd Age - International Association for Counselling - International Association for Religious Freedom - International Association for Human Values - International Association of Educators for World Peace - International Council of Nurses - International Council of Women - International Federation of Social Workers - Pax Romana - Pan Pacific & South East Asia Women’s Association  - Society for the Psychological Studies of Social Issues - Susila Dharma International- Temple of Understanding - Women’s World Summit Foundation - World Citizen Association - World Federation of Mental Health - World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women - World Organization of Former Pupils of Catholic Education - World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations.

 

CSVGC Founding Members from other interested organisations

AFSH/WH - Association of World Citizens - Bahai’I International Community - Bearing Point - CERN- Commune de Meinier - European Union - Franciscans International - Green Cross

International - Globalizing Compassion - ICRC - IFUW –  International Baccalaureate Organization - International Emissaries - International Union Against Cancer – New Economics Foundation,

UK - NGO Forum on Health – Organizations: OHCHR – Soka Gakkai International - UNRISD – UNITAR. 


History: From Spiritual Caucus to NGO Committee - 2001 to 2002 (PDF)


The Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns - From 2003 onwards (PDF)