UN not effective, need to strengthen global institutional framework: Satyarthi
The UN has to be strengthened because it has not been able to solve the ongoing problems that are very serious and dangerous for the entire humanity, said the Nobel peace laureate
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Giving a call for globalise compassion, Satyarthi urged everyone to approach the current problems of the world like war, injustice and atrocities from the ways of Mahatma Gandhi. (Photo:X/@k_satyarthi)Emphasising that children are the worst sufferers of the broken, fragmented, violent and unjust world, social activist and Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi Friday urged for strengthening of the global institutional framework as “the efforts of the United Nations are proving to be not effective”.
The UN has to be strengthened because it has not been able to solve the ongoing problems that are very serious and dangerous for the entire humanity, he told media persons before attending the fifth anniversary celebrations of Social Venture Partners India (SVP India), an organisation focusing on collaborative philanthropy, in Gujarat.
Giving a call for globalise compassion, Satyarthi urged everyone to approach the current problems of the world like war, injustice and atrocities from the ways of Mahatma Gandhi. He added that children are the worst sufferers of the broken, fragmented, violent and unjust world we live in.
“We have globalised business, market, knowledge, data, technology, information, production and distribution. We have seen its good and bad consequences. But from this land of Gandhiji, I feel proud to say that we should sow the seeds of globalisation of compassion and it should be encouraged. We have globalised everything, this is the time we globalise compassion,” he said.
“Whatever problems we have today in the world — whether it is war, injustice, atrocities — we have to think about it from the ways of Gandhiji,” he added.
The 2014 Nobel Peace laureate emphasised that “we could not call ourselves civilised if a single child is facing violence or is being killed for no reason and if a single girl child is raped”. “After Ukraine-Russia, now (there’s) Israel & Palestine. The kind of situation children are facing is very worrisome… Thousands of children have been killed,” Satyarthi said.
Satyarthi pointed out that the world was divided in no time after the latest Israel-Palestine conflict erupted. Within days of the latest conflict, a sharp political, ideological and emotional divide developed across the world and its impact could be seen right up to the Nobel laureates, he said. “I spoke to many former presidents, prime ministers of world nations. People were divided. Scholars were divided; either they are with the Jews in the name of Israel or they are with Muslims in the name of Palestine,” he said.
However, eventually, he brought together 104 Nobel laureates to issue a statement to world leaders with a sentiment to protect all the children in Israel and Palestine. He said they have received remarkably ‘inspiring, positive and encouraging’ responses to the initiative.
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