In 2024, Servare et Manere will implement the international initiative Tree of Peace in the Republic of Cyprus as well. The commemorative tree will be planted in front of the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia, in the so-called buffer zone under the administration of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Cyprus (UNFICYP). The hotel is the venue for bicommunity meetings of Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot political parties under the auspices of…
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Organization with a Special Consultative Status within the UN Economic and Social Council
New York, July 21/ August 8, 2022. The Slovak NGO Servare et Manere is the second ever organization in the history of the Slovak Republic to receive a Special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC). On July 21, 2022, the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations recommended that the ECOSOC plenary session Servare et Manere be granted a Special consultative status. In total, 266 non-governmental…
#slovakiafortonga
Tonga. On Friday and Saturday, January 14 and 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga – Hunga Haʻapai submarine volcano exploded on the uninhabited Tonga Islands. It also caused tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean, which flooded the coast from Japan to the United States and killed two people in Peru. Pressure waves from the eruption were also recorded in Slovakia. The eruption and tsunami affected the lives of about 84,000 people, representing…
International Tree of Peace
The International Tree of Peace (Slovak: Strom pokoja) is an international project that originated in Slovakia. The project, created on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I, was initiated by Slovak landscape architect Marek Sobola from Žilina. The main goal of the project is to promote a message of peace by planting a Tree of Peace on every continent. It is aimed at planting…