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The Launching of IMAP - the International Media Federation for Peace in Seoul, South Korea https://youtu.be/AyKkrwaKdm0 UPF- Seoul/Korea - On February 2nd 2020 some 450 journalists from around the globe came to Seoul, in order to explore means of building a...

  UPF launches the International Media Association for Peace (IMAP) during the World Summit 2020 By Thomas P. McDevitt Background The first official event of the extraordinary World Summit 2020 in early February this year was a one-day conference for the newly launched...

UPF Convenes Spectacular World Summit 2020 Written by Dr. William Selig, director of communications, UPF International Saturday, February 8, 2020 Seoul, Korea—The World Summit 2020 Assembly, which was sponsored by UPF, took place February 3-8, 2020, in Seoul, Korea.  The...

Los Angeles, CA (April 7, 2019) —  An audience of 6,000 people filled City of Refuge megachurch in Gardena, CA yesterday for the Peace Starts With Me rally. This was a call to promote peace in a local community...

The UPF World Summit 2019 was held from February 7 to 11 in Seoul, Korea. 1200 participants including current and former heads of state and government, members of parliament, religious leaders and NGO representatives from 110 nations attended the...

Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) co-founder Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon awarded one million dollars (USD) to this year's Sunhak Peace Prize laureates, Waris Dirie and Dr. Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, as part of her philanthropic work. The biennial award honors individuals and organizations who...

Strasbourg, France—To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the historic Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), together with partnering organizations, convened in the European Parliament on December 12, 2018, two panels of eminent scholars, human rights...

Laureate Announcement to be made in Cape Town, South Africa, on Thursday November 22nd 2018, at 5:00 PM at the Cape Town International Convention Center. Waris Dirie: human rights activist and super-model, recognized throughout the world for her...

The prize is awarded to those who have made a great contribution to peace or the protection and development of natural resources. The award money is one million US dollars, half of which is given to each of the...

Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon was born on 10 February 1943 in the village of Sinli, in the Anju district of what is today North Korea. Her parents were committed Christians; they took separate paths due to the political turbulence of...