Closing Remarks of the “Downfall of Democracy – Covid-19 and Natural Disasters: Visions Toward Solutions” titled webinar on September 12, 2021.

In support of the International Day of Democracy (September 15);SDG-16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions &SDG-17: Partnerships for the Goals

By Bircan Ünver, head Rep. of The Light Millennium, Charitable Global Human Advancement Org. to the United Nations Department of Global Communications; Chair, ATAA Committee on UN Relations and New York Region V.P.

Now, we’ve arrived at my Closing Remarks.
Thank very much to our distinguished speakers, core-organizers, students and participants, attendees… We greet you all…

By now, we all have already heard in-depth information on the illustrated crucial points by our distinguished speakers from a diverse spectrum at the “Downfall of Democracy – Covid-19 and Natural Disasters: Visions Toward Solutions”, titled webinar. 

While we have aimed to bring out the core ongoing problems and threats on the table, we also have aimed to present you with some visions toward solutions on a national and/or global level.

As the overarching concept provided legal and scientific proves based on the existing yet non-effective laws, an overview of misuse of media, social media, and freedom of expression, shrinking public space, in conjunction with the hugely negative effects that have been caused by COVID-19 along with, environmental and natural or manmade disasters. 

Just within the last 2 to 4 weeks during the last week of July and throughout August alone in this year (2021), over one-million-hectare forests along with several tens of millions of habitats and insects of forests burned out in the World, in conjunction with huge floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and drought sorts of natural and/or manmade disasters followed by, which cannot be separated and should be considered interlinked in a larger context of democracy and peace.

As it is stated during the session by our distinguished speakers, all these have been undermined and already removed the legal rights of the human population both on the national, regional, and/or global levels including some international treaties such as the Istanbul Convention.

We consider ourselves as a soldier of democracy, human rights, freedom of expression, protecting public space and “Right to Live” as it is indicated as the very first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), in support of International Day of Democracy along with SDG#15 Life on Land, SDG#16: Strengthen Peaceful and Democratic Institutions along with SDG#17 for Global Partnerships toward achieving the SDGs. 

In this context, we are greatly honored to have H.E. Rodrigo Carazo, Ambassador of Costa Rica to the United Nations as the sponsoring mission of the webinar. 

And, we congratulate Costa Rica for her 200 Anniversary of this year (1st of November, 2021) along with being awarded a champion of Earth, which received the 2019 highest UN Environment Program Award. 
 

With a 200 years history and culture of peace and being able to reverse forests and environment and sustaining it, along with, being a few non-weaponized member states in the world since 1949, Costa Rica has been the shining star, role model, and hope to the world in the name of democracy and human rights.
 
We only wish that all other UN member states will follow Costa Rica. 
 
Further, Costa Rica has been one of the supporters and champions of The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”  along with Kazakhstan at the UN, which was ratified by Costa Rica, along with, ratified by 52 countries. 
 
With this extraordinary outcome, one of the most critically important treaties of our times, which has entered into force on January 21, 2021.
 
This is alone one of the best possible positive outcomes on the global level that we have hoped for despite all the negative conditions examined here, those are also possible to be reversed, sustained, and improved further as we’ve also heard visions, in particular, from the students of Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy toward solutions.
 
All in all, we hope that the outcome of this webinar eventually will lead up to a transformational stage toward a demand by the public from their respected governments toward to be taken necessary urgent and protective measures in the name of democracy, freedom of expression, anti-hate speech, seen and/unseen discrimination and “Right to Live”. 
 
Thank you for your kind attention.

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VIDEO

Webinar-Tentative Program: 
DOWNFALL OF DEMOCRACY – COVID-19 AND NATURAL DISASTERS: VISIONS TOWARD SOLUTIONS – ON 09/12/2021
https://www.lmglobal.org/2021/08/31/webinar-downfall-of-democracy-covid-19-and-natural-disasters-visions-toward-solution-on-09-12-2021/

Booklet:

https://www.lightmillennium.org/un/2021/booklet-downfall-of-democracy-covid19-disasters-visions-w-bios-for-sept-12-2021-final.pdf

Concept Note:

Co-organized and presented by 
Assembly of Turkish American Associations and The Light Millennium, Charitable Global Human Advancement Organization, 
associated with the United Nations Department of Global Communications; and Turkish Anti-Defamation Alliance

• Sponsoring Mission :  Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations
• Contributing Organizations : Azerbaijan Society of America & Peace Caucus

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