The Secretary-General Michele Capasso, the Council of Ambassadors, the Board of Governors with Pia Molinari and Jacopo Molinari, the International Committee, the delegates of the autonomous sections "Fondazione Mediterraneo", "Accademia del Mediterraneo" and "Almamed" and the heads of the branch offices express their deep condolences for the passing of Abdulaziz-Al-Babtain, a founding member of the United States of the World.
A leading figure in Kuwaiti culture, he was a highly regarded poet who made a fundamental contribution to Arab culture by writing numerous poetry collections and serving as head of the Al-Babtain Group for Poetic Creativity.
Secretary General Michele Capasso remembers his fraternal friend, his visits to the Naples headquarters on the occasion of the "Mediterranean Award" attributed to him, his poetry meetings in Kuwait City with Jacopo Molinari, and the opening of a special section on Arab poetry in the Library of the Museum of Peace in Naples, the result of an agreement between the Al Babtain Foundation and the Fondazione Mediterraneo.
An official communiqué expressed sincere condolences to the bereaved family and friends of the deceased.

The United States of the World organised the "World Volunteer Day" in various countries.
The coordinator of the "Volunteering and Human Rights" section of the United States of the World, Senator Giuseppe Lumia, spoke at a significant meeting promoted in Padua by the Luciano Tavazza Association and the new European Volunteer Network (Re.V.E., which recalls the French "rêve", i.e. dream).
In Padua, the proposal to amend the Third Sector Code was presented.
A proposal that sums up the discomfort experienced today by the Volunteers of the small but vital groups, which act in local communities, and of the territorial and national Networks, which still have the desire to change the path of humanity through the concrete example of promoting new relationships and sharing with those who live the condition of discomfort, marginalisation and loneliness.
A proposal that has these objectives: 

1. to overcome the currently asphyxiating excess of bureaucratic and fiscal constraints in the Code on the Third Sector and in particular on organised volunteering.
2. make it clear that Volunteering is necessarily free of charge and has exclusive aims of altruity, proximity, education and solidarity in all fields of social and cultural action.
3. make it clear that Volunteering must have relations with institutions of "high integration" and not of vassalage or prostration to the powerful.

Modern volunteering is not welfare, it is not called upon to 'plug the holes' produced by society, the economy and politics. Rather, it is a concrete experience that, if done with conscience and preparation, changes the lives of volunteers and supports those profound changes that are needed more than ever within our consciences, in relationships and in the most dramatic situations of human existence, which has to deal with inequalities of all kinds, with devastating wars, with the expansion of substance and behavioural addictions, with the worsening of gender discrimination, which then unleash unspeakable violence, with the spread of mafias, increasingly collusive and powerful, with the still underestimated climate change, just to mention the main crises underway.

Senators of the Italian Republic Cecilia D'Elia and Antonio Misiani - on a visit to the United States of the World headquarters - signed the "Kimiyya" manifesto for women's rights that the United States of the World with the Fondazione Mediterraneo has been promoting around the world since 2017.
Senators D'Elia and Misiani, former Deputy Minister of Economy, stressed the importance of the United States of the World's action for the Earth and for Peace.

Naples City Council President Enza Amato - on the occasion of her visit to the United States of the World and the Museum of Peace - signed the Kimiyya poster for Women's Rights.