Yashwant Sena is an Indian social reform association that was formed by B K Kokare, a Bachelor of Engineering. It is a social activist organisation, and started the battle against economical, social, and political injustice faced by the Dhangar community in India. Bapu Kokare started his struggle from Baramati. He toured the entirety of Maharashtra and awakened the Dhangar community. B K Kokare’s movement started spreading throughout Maharashtra. The Dhangar community, which used to once rule India, but had almost died, came to life due to B K Kokare’s Yashwant Sena movement. Yashwant Sena takes inspiration from Yashwantrao Holkar the great. He is rightly called "Father of Dhangar Awakening" in modern India. It was one of the organisations which spearheaded the demand of Scheduled Tribe status for the Dhangar community in 1989. Kokare was compelled to surrender to Congress. After surrendering he felt like he lost his soul and died physically on 28th January 2005. Meanwhile, he gave the leadership of Yashwant Sena to Mahadeo Jankar. Under the leadership of Mahadeo Jankar the prime aim of Yashwant Sena was to transform the ruled community into a ruler community. So Mahadeo Jankar formed Rashtriya Samaj Paksha on 29th August 2003. (Mahadeo Jankar is the Founder/National President of Rashtriya Samaj Paksha).
Vartan Malakian (born February 14, 1947) is an Armenian American artist born in Iraq who now lives in Los Angeles. He is the father of Daron Malakian, guitarist of System of a Down and lead singer of Scars on Broadway. He contributed the artwork for System of a Down's 2005 albums Mezmerize and Hypnotize as well as Daron Malakian's Ibanez Signature Model DMM1 guitar and the Scars on Broadway album. He frequently attends System of a Down concerts and his son will often dedicate a song to him when he does.
Life
By the age of eighteen, Malakian held his first art expo at the Czechoslovakian Embassy and other government sponsored events drawing attention to his artwork. In 1968, Vartan took on the position as head dance choreographer for the Iraqi Government and the Armenian Youth Organization. For several years, Vartan successfully organized and created Broadway caliber shows.
By 1975, Vartan Malakian had moved to the U.S. and settled in Hollywood, California. Vartan continued his career in dance and arts and in 1981, began to teach dance at Glendale College, where he formed an Armenian Dance Assembly. In 1993, Vartan Malakian opened his Antiques and Art Gallery, which was called Arka Gallery. There, Vartan successfully sold over 100 pieces of his own artistic creations to a diversified group of people including many famous icons in the arts industry. In 2001, the Los Angeles Times called Vartan Malakian's gallery one of the most unique stores in the city.
In 2005, Vartan Malakian hired ZAk, the founder and the designer of System of a Down's popular fansite, SOADFans.com, to create and help design the vartanmalakian.com website, which was launched in December 2005.
Life
By the age of eighteen, Malakian held his first art expo at the Czechoslovakian Embassy and other government sponsored events drawing attention to his artwork. In 1968, Vartan took on the position as head dance choreographer for the Iraqi Government and the Armenian Youth Organization. For several years, Vartan successfully organized and created Broadway caliber shows.
By 1975, Vartan Malakian had moved to the U.S. and settled in Hollywood, California. Vartan continued his career in dance and arts and in 1981, began to teach dance at Glendale College, where he formed an Armenian Dance Assembly. In 1993, Vartan Malakian opened his Antiques and Art Gallery, which was called Arka Gallery. There, Vartan successfully sold over 100 pieces of his own artistic creations to a diversified group of people including many famous icons in the arts industry. In 2001, the Los Angeles Times called Vartan Malakian's gallery one of the most unique stores in the city.
In 2005, Vartan Malakian hired ZAk, the founder and the designer of System of a Down's popular fansite, SOADFans.com, to create and help design the vartanmalakian.com website, which was launched in December 2005.
The World Water Organization (WWO) is chartered as a not-for-profit international membership association of professionals from governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), multi- and transnational corporations, and academic institutions. The organization seeks to address the world’s water challenges and to find workable and affordable solutions that benefit all nations and all peoples. To this end the WWO promotes technological advancement, facilitates public and private partnerships, provides a forum for world leaders and innovators to discuss solutions, and takes concrete steps to achieve water sustainability across the globe.
Mission
With participation of professionals form the United Nations and The World Bank to its Executive Board, the organization has the wide support of intergovernmental organizations and the governments of the Member States of the United Nations. The WWO seeks to bring together technology, projects and financing to achieve global water sustainability.
The WWO was established by the consensus of the international experts who believed that although there is an abundance of goodwill around the world, politics and bureaucracies tend to encumber the translation of ideas into the real world in which urgent action is called upon. The world’s thirsty populations continue to suffer due to the lack of safe drinking water. The need is most palpable in the developing and underdeveloped countries where the situation is exacerbated by the burgeoning population growth.
History of the World Water Organization
The WWO was created following the establishment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the specific aim of meeting goal number seven target three: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The MDGs were announced at the Millennium Summit in September of 2000 and world leaders committed to eight specific goals to be reached at a target date of 2015. The eight goals are as follows:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce childhood mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development
In July 2008, the WWO worked with and sponsored the New York Institute of Technology's International Water Conference at the United Nations.
In February 2009, the WWO ran its own first international conference, the High-Level Symposium on Water Security at the United Nations, gathering leaders, specialists and other pre-eminent representatives from private sector businesses, international organizations, non-government and non-profit organizations and academic institutions. The Symposium was run in cooperation with The International Water Association and W-SMART, The New York Institute of Technology Center for Security and Disaster Response, and the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations. It was sponsored by The Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations and had financial sponsorship from Hope Finance S.A..
Annual Conferences
The World Water Organization hosts a series of annual conferences around the world to bring together experts in the field, governments, and private citizens in creating solutions to the world’s water problems. Each of the yearly gatherings focuses on a specific goal of the organization.
The High Level Symposium on Water Security and Emergency Relief
Held: February 2009 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA
The International Water Conference on Global Water and Health: The Challenge of the 21st Century
To be held: January 2010
The International Water Summit
To be held: March 2010
Projects
The WWO is currently planning and developing a number of project proposals to deliver water solutions to developing countries and countries where water challenges present immediate problems around the world. The WWO works with host governments to deliver water solutions and seeks to build partnerships with other internationally minded organizations and institutions to address water issues globally. Donations from international businesses and individuals play a critical role in delivering these projects and securing water resources for communities in need.
The World Water Organization welcomes project proposals and suggestions for where it can increase its focus to address the water needs of people globally, regionally and locally - regardless of the size or complexity.
The World According to Water
The WWO will launch its new website during September. The Website will feature an encyclopedic resource detailing water challenges in each of the world's countries. This resource will continually be updated to represent the most current statistics as well as accurately portray activities being undertaken by host governments and non-government organizations/institutions to address these water challenges.
Executive Board of Directors
Chairman - Dr. Harold HyunSuk Oh
Deputy Chairman - H.E. Waheed Waheedullah
Board of Directors
Dr. Sediq Afghan
Dr. Mourad Belguedj
Dr. Noel J. Brown
Dr. Rexhep Meidani
Behgjet Pacolli
Dr. Andrew J. Yager
The International Advisory Council
H.E. Anwarul K. Chowdhury
Ty Fairman
H.E. Ahmad Kamal
Dr. Brian O’Leary
Hector Sectzer
Kaan Soyak
Robert Wagner
Secretariat
Executive Director - Dr. Elaine Valdov
Mission
With participation of professionals form the United Nations and The World Bank to its Executive Board, the organization has the wide support of intergovernmental organizations and the governments of the Member States of the United Nations. The WWO seeks to bring together technology, projects and financing to achieve global water sustainability.
The WWO was established by the consensus of the international experts who believed that although there is an abundance of goodwill around the world, politics and bureaucracies tend to encumber the translation of ideas into the real world in which urgent action is called upon. The world’s thirsty populations continue to suffer due to the lack of safe drinking water. The need is most palpable in the developing and underdeveloped countries where the situation is exacerbated by the burgeoning population growth.
History of the World Water Organization
The WWO was created following the establishment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the specific aim of meeting goal number seven target three: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The MDGs were announced at the Millennium Summit in September of 2000 and world leaders committed to eight specific goals to be reached at a target date of 2015. The eight goals are as follows:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce childhood mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development
In July 2008, the WWO worked with and sponsored the New York Institute of Technology's International Water Conference at the United Nations.
In February 2009, the WWO ran its own first international conference, the High-Level Symposium on Water Security at the United Nations, gathering leaders, specialists and other pre-eminent representatives from private sector businesses, international organizations, non-government and non-profit organizations and academic institutions. The Symposium was run in cooperation with The International Water Association and W-SMART, The New York Institute of Technology Center for Security and Disaster Response, and the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations. It was sponsored by The Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations and had financial sponsorship from Hope Finance S.A..
Annual Conferences
The World Water Organization hosts a series of annual conferences around the world to bring together experts in the field, governments, and private citizens in creating solutions to the world’s water problems. Each of the yearly gatherings focuses on a specific goal of the organization.
The High Level Symposium on Water Security and Emergency Relief
Held: February 2009 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA
The International Water Conference on Global Water and Health: The Challenge of the 21st Century
To be held: January 2010
The International Water Summit
To be held: March 2010
Projects
The WWO is currently planning and developing a number of project proposals to deliver water solutions to developing countries and countries where water challenges present immediate problems around the world. The WWO works with host governments to deliver water solutions and seeks to build partnerships with other internationally minded organizations and institutions to address water issues globally. Donations from international businesses and individuals play a critical role in delivering these projects and securing water resources for communities in need.
The World Water Organization welcomes project proposals and suggestions for where it can increase its focus to address the water needs of people globally, regionally and locally - regardless of the size or complexity.
The World According to Water
The WWO will launch its new website during September. The Website will feature an encyclopedic resource detailing water challenges in each of the world's countries. This resource will continually be updated to represent the most current statistics as well as accurately portray activities being undertaken by host governments and non-government organizations/institutions to address these water challenges.
Executive Board of Directors
Chairman - Dr. Harold HyunSuk Oh
Deputy Chairman - H.E. Waheed Waheedullah
Board of Directors
Dr. Sediq Afghan
Dr. Mourad Belguedj
Dr. Noel J. Brown
Dr. Rexhep Meidani
Behgjet Pacolli
Dr. Andrew J. Yager
The International Advisory Council
H.E. Anwarul K. Chowdhury
Ty Fairman
H.E. Ahmad Kamal
Dr. Brian O’Leary
Hector Sectzer
Kaan Soyak
Robert Wagner
Secretariat
Executive Director - Dr. Elaine Valdov
H.E. Ambassador Waheed Waheedullah is both an academic and a practitioner in the fields of social & political sciences, diplomacy and international relations and has worked for the United Nations since 1994. Having served in various capacities, Ambassador Waheedullah is best known for his work within the UN and the international community at large and for his contribution to the spheres of peacekeeping, peace-building, peace-making, conflict prevention, conflict management and conflict resolution.
Ambassador Waheedullah identified “The Cause” and “The Legacies” of the conflicts in Afghanistan and the former Republics of Yugoslavia, and was a key architect in designing the solutions for these crises. He was a key contributor towards developing the “Implementation Mechanisms” for the UN-facilitated Peace Process in Kosovo and continues to be instrumental in promoting this cause to members of the General Assembly. Ambassador Waheedullah was heavily involved in designing the UN-facilitated Bonn Agreement for a comprehensive political settlement of the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. He is currently collaborating as part of a team of ambassadors and diplomats to design and implement a new peace initiative in this Central Asian state aimed at achieving a durable peace, fostering stability and creating the necessary preconditions to rebuild the country.
Ambassador Waheedullah is currently a member of the Executive Board of International Academy of Dialogue Among Cultures and Civilizations based in Warsaw, a founding member of International Academy of Emerging Markets based in New York, a faculty member of the British Training Center for International Peacekeeping Operations based in Sana Loger in Germany, and serving as the Deputy Chairman on the Executive Boards of the World Energy Forum and the World Water Organization. While serving as the Head of UN Regional Office in the Balkans, Ambassador Waheedullah founded the Diplomatic Academy of Albania as well as the United Nations National Association of Albania (UNAA).
Ambassador Waheed Waheedullah has a Master’s in Public Administration and Conflict Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a Masters Degree in Social and Political Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences, International Relations and Diplomacy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan and a Bachelor of Arts with majors in Letters and Humanities from the University of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Ambassador Waheedullah has contributed to publications, articles and essays on international conflict and security, and has conducted interviews in the fields of political sciences, diplomacy, international relations, peacekeeping and peace-building operations. He has also spoken and written publicly on the various dimensions and distinctions of multiethnic, multilingual, multicultural and multi-religious communities/societies in the Balkans, the problems these communities confront as well as the settlements that could be explored to achieve peace and harmony in multi-cultural communities.
Ambassador Waheedullah speaks English, French, Arabic, Serbo-Croat, Persian, Pashtu and Urdu.
Ambassador Waheedullah identified “The Cause” and “The Legacies” of the conflicts in Afghanistan and the former Republics of Yugoslavia, and was a key architect in designing the solutions for these crises. He was a key contributor towards developing the “Implementation Mechanisms” for the UN-facilitated Peace Process in Kosovo and continues to be instrumental in promoting this cause to members of the General Assembly. Ambassador Waheedullah was heavily involved in designing the UN-facilitated Bonn Agreement for a comprehensive political settlement of the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. He is currently collaborating as part of a team of ambassadors and diplomats to design and implement a new peace initiative in this Central Asian state aimed at achieving a durable peace, fostering stability and creating the necessary preconditions to rebuild the country.
Ambassador Waheedullah is currently a member of the Executive Board of International Academy of Dialogue Among Cultures and Civilizations based in Warsaw, a founding member of International Academy of Emerging Markets based in New York, a faculty member of the British Training Center for International Peacekeeping Operations based in Sana Loger in Germany, and serving as the Deputy Chairman on the Executive Boards of the World Energy Forum and the World Water Organization. While serving as the Head of UN Regional Office in the Balkans, Ambassador Waheedullah founded the Diplomatic Academy of Albania as well as the United Nations National Association of Albania (UNAA).
Ambassador Waheed Waheedullah has a Master’s in Public Administration and Conflict Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a Masters Degree in Social and Political Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences, International Relations and Diplomacy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan and a Bachelor of Arts with majors in Letters and Humanities from the University of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Ambassador Waheedullah has contributed to publications, articles and essays on international conflict and security, and has conducted interviews in the fields of political sciences, diplomacy, international relations, peacekeeping and peace-building operations. He has also spoken and written publicly on the various dimensions and distinctions of multiethnic, multilingual, multicultural and multi-religious communities/societies in the Balkans, the problems these communities confront as well as the settlements that could be explored to achieve peace and harmony in multi-cultural communities.
Ambassador Waheedullah speaks English, French, Arabic, Serbo-Croat, Persian, Pashtu and Urdu.