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GREENWICH, CT, APRIL 18, 2011 - MS. YIN-CHU JOU, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE GREENWICH-BASED FRIENDSHIP AMBASSADORS FOUNDATION (FAF; www.faf.org) HAS BEEN SELECTED FROM HUNDREDS OF INTERNATIONAL NONPROFIT ('NGO') APPLICANT ORGANIZATIONS TO APPEAR AT THE UNs DOHA FORUM. MS. JOU WILL HIGHLIGHT FAF'S SUCCESS IN ADVANCING MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND GLOBAL COOPERATION THROUGH CULTURAL EXCHANGE.
The official UN event is part of its UNAOC Doha Fourth Forum and is titled: Connecting the UNAOC's mission and the MDGs: An Agenda for Collaborative Action. Ms. Jou will be flown to the conference and accommodated by the United Nations' Qatari hosts: the National Human Rights Committee, Arab Democracy Foundation, and the Doha Centre for Media Freedom, during her stay. She will travel from Fez, Morocco to Doha for the Forum on May 3 and 4. Just prior to the UN event, Ms. Jou will be a guest of King Mohammed VI of Morocco at the Fez Conference of Nobel Laureates. Her husband was invited to this event prior to her own UN invitation, so they will travel together to Fez on April 30; then she will continue on to Doha late on May 2 for the UNAOC Forum events the next day.
"It is an hon our to be selected to address the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations" states Ms. Jou of her appointment by the UN to the NGO delegation in Doha. "The foundation is grateful to have two opportunities to weigh in on pressing issues at two major conferences. I will focus my comments on the foundation's Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations™ and The Rhythms of One World 2012 choir festival, also taking place at the United Nations and other prestigious venues throughout Manhattan." (Pictured: Ms. Jou addresses a recent conference at UN Headquarters in New York.)
Ms. Jou will also demonstrate how FAF's long recognized, arts based programming promotes peace through the most positive form of global, cultural diplomacy - across cultures and throughout the world.
FAF's Youth Assembly at the UN brings together hundreds of youth leaders from over 40 countries to the UN to discuss the future of the 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Rhythms of One World 2012 choir festival will draw hundreds of choral voices from around the world to celebrate the signing of the original UN ("We The Peoples") charter, on June 26, with a grand concert in the UN General Assembly Hall, just prior to its closing for renovation, Festival concerts will take place in tribute to the goals of the UN elsewhere In Manhattan throughout the week. Rhythms is a tribute to an 'alliance of civilizations.'
"We are quite proud that Yin-Chu has been selected for this honour," states FAF's Executive Director Patrick Sciarratta. "It reinforces our belief that the foundation is on the right track. We believe that it is only through the exchange of culture that today's major civilizations can better understand and appreciate the roots of each other's world view."
"The way to deter Huntington's prophetic 'Clash of Civilizations,' predicted in the nineties, is not through business, religion, or politics, but through the exchange of culture and the arts - and Ms. Jou is the perfect artist and spokesperson for that cause," Sciarratta concluded.
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