Students run for new world order

Express News Service
Aug. 31, 2005

Their zeal to make the world a better place to live-in surpassed their age, as 7000 students of City Montessori School came together in a World Unity March, from Kailashpuri Chauraha to CMS, Kanpur Road branch, today.

This march was organised with an aim to provide a platform to children demanding from the world leaders- who would participate in the UN World Summit, New York (between September 14 to 16)- a new world order, ensuring a safer tommorrow for all the two billion children residing on the planet.

Holding placards calling for a united world, they also raised slogans for nuclear disarmament, abolishing veto power system, efforts for ecological conversation and formation of a World Government.

A delegation of six students later addressed the student gathering, making various appeals to the world leaders. Shubhi (Rajajipuram Branch), appealed for inclusion of the ‘Right to a Safe Future’ in the UN Declaration of Rights of a Child. Pallavi Srivastava (Gomti Nagar branch) and Divyansh Verma (Mahanagar branch) urged for reforming of the United Nations according to the recommendations of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Nupur Singh (Gomti Nagar branch) and Aparna Bajpai (Mahanagar) called for complete nuclear disarmament, while Rahul Siddharth (Mahanagar) emphasised that all international challenges threating mankind can be faced head-on if the world came together to form one global family.

Minister for Higher Education (UP) Ram Asrey Vishwakarma and Vice-Chancellor of Lucknow University RP Singh, were also present on the occasion.