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…
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…
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…
The World Map of Peace or World Peace Map, abbreviated as well the Map of Peace, was created to unify the individual plantings of the Trees of Peace in different countries of the world and give them a clear goal: to involve as many countries as possible into the planting of Trees of Peace and thus gradually supplement the Map of Peace. The International Tree of Peace was founded in…
