On a Draft UN Declaration on the Right to Peace

POETRY FORMAT, UNITED NATIONS, 4 Feb 2013

Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service

Rhymed Reflections

Of all the many political documents in which Humankind may excel
there is one in which universal human intent is  expressed well:

Declaration is its name
to which the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights has brought fame

In the History of The Culture of Peace
the drafting of declarations does not seem to cease

This is cogent evidence that Humankind wants the Presence of Peace to become
a global reality

With UN support, the AEDIDH initiative has eloquently given  The Right to Peace
a global dignity

May the official approval of the Draft  UN Declaration on the Right to Peace
in  the Geneva  meeting take place

so that the protection, promotion, and sustainability of that human right
will be shown on every  human face

The Declaration on the Right to Peace will be more than hortatory:
Its global presence and application will be wisely celebratory

of governments` intent to see their peoples share the Earth in peace
and co-build Global Citizenship Cultures, planetarily never to cease!

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Francisco Gomes de Matos is a peace linguist and human rights educator from Recife-Brazil, author, among others, of the book Nurturing Nonkilling: A Poetic Plantation (2010, Center for Global Nonkilling, Honolulu-Hawai’i). Downloadable at www.nonkilling.org. Co-founder: The World Dignity University Initiative.

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