The United States of the World celebrated "World Water Day" in various cities on five continents. In particular, at the institutional headquarters in Naples, Secretary-General Michele Capasso emphasised the urgency of protecting water resources, especially at this difficult time in human history characterised by wars, pandemics, social injustice and climate change. The scientists present relaunched the United States of the World Appeal for universal collaboration to reduce drought disasters, using examples of good practice such as Israeli technologies for desalinating seawater.
The President of the Legality and Rights Commission Sen. Giuseppe Lumia spoke in Piedmont on the occasion of the "National Day of Memory and Commitment for Innocent Victims". Alongside the national event in Trapani - where, thanks to the "Libera" association, the country's critical and conscious attention is focused - it was decided to highlight in Piedmont the reminder for each of us of a fight that must avoid, after the capture and death of Matteo Messina Denaro, thinking that cosa nostra is over. Senator Lumia expressed himself thus: "In front of thousands and thousands of people, all the names of the innocent victims of the mafias, whom we often forget along with their example and sacrifice, were read out and repeatedly chanted. We are unfortunately losing ground on a cultural and social level in the fight against the mafia, but also on a regulatory level. It is enough to think of how many dangerous bosses are escaping the rigours of prison by resuming their activities in their own territories, without underestimating the massive drug trafficking and the continuous reproduction of collusion with sectors of the economy and politics. This is why rethinking and re-motivating memory and commitment is more necessary than ever for the future of our country and Europe itself. This year, too, we have chosen to stand alongside a projectual path of real liberation from the ‘ndrangheta’ at the entrance to the Susa Valley in Piedmont. In Alpignano and Caselette, step by step, we are regenerating a commitment that frees territories and institutions from the presence of bosses that, particularly with Giuseppe Ursino, linked to Rocco Lo Presti, was becoming a serious problem". The "Stairs of Legality" project enables citizens to know and thus cultivate good memories of the innocent victims of mafias and to stimulate practices of real change. School children are the main protagonists of the regeneration season, because they are animated by the same vital energy that Spring arouses in nature.
A delegation of the "United States of the World" participated in the demonstration for the "United States of Europe" in Rome. Here is the statement by Secretary-General Michele Capasso: ‘For those who, like me, have been fighting to establish the "UNITED STATES OF EUROPE" within the framework of the "UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD" for forty years, with the help of my late brotherly friend Gerardo Marotta. For those who, like me, have put every effort and every resource into warning of the danger for the new generations without a political Europe with common defence, foreign policy and economy. For those who, like me, have appealed to all the presidents of the European Commission and Parliament since 1990.
The United States of the World celebrated "International Women's Day" 2025 by dedicating it to Ukrainian women: innocent victims of a fratricidal war in the heart of Europe. Throughout the day, the Peace Museum's 107 large videowalls projected images of Ukrainian women whose dignity and lives have been violated. To NOT FORGET what increasingly appears to be a tragedy of immense proportions. President Capasso thus addressed the women in attendance and those connected webinar: "We want to dedicate this March 8, 2025 to the Ukrainian women who resist, who heal, who flee, who fight for life, who cry, who stand against Putin's war, who hope for Europe, who ask us to help them. The images of Ukrainian women victims of the war flash before our eyes now unaccustomed to this spectacle in the heart of Europe: thousands dead, hundreds of thousands relocated or exiled, towns and villages in ruins, bridges and buildings destroyed by gunfire, monuments of culture or faith desecrated, violence and humiliation of all kinds, countless existences of simple people mutilated or torn apart forever. Human suffering cannot be summarized. Can one go beyond it? This question is addressed at the same time to Russia that invaded Ukraine but also to those who have done so little to stop this war in the heart of Europe. What can we say, in the face of such a tragedy, of a UN unsuited to the changes in our world with bureaucratic rules and vetoes that prevent real peacekeeping action; of a NATO that has remained a prisoner of archaic defense models; of a European Union that cares so little about the rest of Europe except for economic needs and following the law of markets and merchants; of a Russia trying to take back the place of the former Soviet Union by using force and violence, of all these games barely disguised by the great powers and their interests? Agreements constantly betrayed, pacts mocked and negotiators made fools of, international resolutions ignored, humanitarian convoys themselves become targets of deadly rage. Russia has provoked a war in the heart of Europe, against a "Brother Country"-Ukraine. A European war that is being waged according to archaic and despotic criteria contrary to any logic. A morally illegitimate war with no legal basis. A war above all fought by causing humiliation, suffering, genocide, violations, planned and pre-announced massacres whose victims are essentially women and children. On this day we want to pay tribute to the women of Ukraine to whom our thoughts and help go. Let us again throw a bottle into our sea with a common appeal intended for what remains of consciences on our shores".
Secretary-General Michele Capasso participated in the presentation of the book written by the Bishop of Assisi Domenico Sorrentino entitled ‘CARLO ACUTIS. SULLE ORME DI FRANCESCO E CHIARA D'ASSISI - Originali e non fotocopie’ (Edizioni Francescane italiane), held in Naples and Scampia. During his speech, Michele Capasso recalled the similar Vesuvian origins with Bishop Domenico (Boscotrecase and San Sebastiano al Vesuvio), the figure of his father Raffaele (Mayor of Reconstruction) and the appointment of Carlo Acutis as Ambassador to the United States of the World. Concluding his speech, Capasso emphasised the importance of the forthcoming opening of the emotional itinerary dedicated to Carlo Acutis in the MAMT Museum of Peace with a chapel dedicated to him, which will join those with the relics of Don Bosco, Mother Mazzarello, John Paul II, Padre Pio and Mother Teresa of Calcutta. At the end there was an exchange of books with dedications: ‘Raffaele, the Mayor’ to Don Domenico and ‘Carlo Acutis’ to Michele.