Human Rights

Acts of cowardice against children

Averting one’s eyes to violence against children and their cruel unfoldings is a barbarity still very present in the world. This is what the report "Hidden in Plain Sight" released on September 4 this year by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reveals.

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All Women Are Mothers

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Hypatia: the Mother of Philosophers

The Sounds of the Soul and the Listening Society

Worthy of respect and praise is the biography of the famous North American social activist, writer, and lecturer Helen Keller (1880-1968). Although it is known that she became blind and deaf at her eighteen months of age, with the indispensable support from her friend and teacher...
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Women Citizens

  The 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which the United Nations (UN) is holding in 2019, makes us ponder even more on how the future of the world depends essentially on the attention and the magnanimity of women. This year’s priority theme of this notable meeting is “...
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Nelson Mandela

Our tribute to the illustrious lawyer and extraordinary political leader Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela who on December 5, 2013 returned to the Spiritual World. The first black president of South Africa, which he governed from 1994 to 1999, fearlessly fought against apartheid, an...
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Hiroshima

At precisely 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 2019, it will be 74 years since the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Later, it was the turn of Nagasaki, also in Japan. This date will never be erased from our consciences at the risk that if we forget this abominable attempt on human life, we may repeat it...
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Hypatia: the Mother of Philosophers

There is nothing more powerful than a mother’s heart. On the occasion of Mother’s Day, I pay a modest tribute to all mothers by way of a pioneering woman in mathematics and astronomy and an icon of philosophy in ancient times. In Ecclesiastical History, written in the 5th century by historian...
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The Millennium of Women

In fair tribute to the human being who, among many other virtues, carries the gift of bringing us to life, I selected some excerpts from my book O Capital de Deus (The Capital of God), by Elevação Publishing House. Before transcribing them, I would like to highlight the fact that there are many...
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All Women Are Mothers

At the Legion of Good Will (LGW), we have a broad view of maternity. That is what I wrote on May 22, 1988, for the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo: God, Mother and Father of the Human Beings, is universal comprehension. Thus, Mothers are not only those who generate carnal children. They are...
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Temple of Peace and United Nations Day

During the celebrations of yet another anniversary of the Temple of Good Will (TGW), which I founded in 1989, I recall that in October 2009, in Brasília/DF, we paid our homage to the United Nations. On that date, the UN was completing 64 years of existence. Incidentally, the sentiment that inspired...
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The Christmas of Jesus and Human Rights

Christmas is not a time to forget our problems, but rather to seek Divine Inspiration to resolve them. Its atmosphere should be that of borderless Fraternity, which is now, more than ever, essential to the emergence of true Planetary Citizenship—one that effectively defends itself against global...
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Human Rights and Spiritual Duties

The 76th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was voted upon by the General Assembly of the United Nations at the Chaillot Palace in Paris in 1948, is officially celebrated on December 10. It became one of the main charters that govern the noble initiatives of the UN,...
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