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 Welcome to the new One World Week website. We've made every effort to make it accessible and standards compliant whilst also providing a useable and useful hub for everyone involved in One World Week activities. Please let us know what you think.
One World Week is an annual opportunity
…for people from diverse backgrounds to come together to learn about global justice, to spread that learning and to use it to take action for justice locally and globally. [MORE]
The theme for 08, “GROWING TOGETHER ”
2008 is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which aspires to:
“…a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want”
But millions of people around the world still do not enjoy that most fundamental right – the right to survive – which forms the basis of all other rights. In March 2008, Jessica Nalwoga, of the Church of Uganda, commented:
‘‘Most parents are not able to provide clothing for the children to wear to school. Neither can they provide adequate school materials. Parents are, on a daily basis, faced with the task of choosing which human rights to violate: education, health or food? For they can hardly meet any since they are themselves living on handouts.''
OWW 2008 is an opportunity for Growing Together Locally, with people of many faiths and cultures, to explore Growing Together Globally to, first, acknowledge and understand the impacts of climate change, trade practices and the progress, or lack of it, towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals and, secondly, to consider what we can all do individually and together to address the needs and rights of all the members of our human famiy wherever they may be in our one world.
So how can we ‘Grow Together’ to strengthen the human family? [MORE]
OWW is here to help you:
- cross boundaries and build relationships of mutual respect
- work in solidarity with others from diverse backgrounds
- come together to learn about global justice
- spread that learning and use it to challenge: inequality, discrimination and degradation of the Earth and its resources
- organise local events that celebrate the diversity of cultures in our communities
Is One World Week for you?Anyone is welcome to take part who wants to address issues of global justice and shares OWW’s belief that “when we understand each other's perspectives, our lives can be transformed and enriched”. [MORE]
This website can support you with resources, contacts and inspiration:
- links to a worldwide network of local OWW contacts
- fun ideas
- downloadable resources
- agency contacts
- how to plan local events, including guidance for organising inter faith and inter cultural events [MORE]
- a diary of OWW events
This website is here for YOU to use. You can:
- find inspiration, information and practical and fun ideas for your events
- find helpful tips about how to plan local events, including working together to organise inter faith and inter cultural events [MORE]
- download resources for your events [RESOURCES] (eg. click on 'Christian Worship Resources' to find the 'Worship Anthology')
- link with other agencies
- find out what’s happening in your local area [EVENTS]
- upload details of your local event
- post news of your local own OWW events [Find out how]
- post photos of your events on the site [Find out how]
- send in feedback on your OWW events [go to Evaluation in the User Menu]
Please register NOW to make full use of the site.
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OWW's Inter Faith project in 2007-8 was completed in March. The report is published as an illustrated booklet, which you can 
