Cape Verdean Janice da Silva received four International Distinctions in 2019

In 2019 Janice da Silva received four international awards in a three-month period. From August to October, Cape Verdean received the International Peace Leader certificate from the International Institute of International Peace Leaders. She has also been honored as the Global Goodwill Ambassador of the American Organization Five Points Youth Foundation for the SDGs and a member of the International Commission of United States Goodwill Ambassadors. She has also received certificates from the National Federation of Human and Humanitarian Rights as Ambassador to ECOWAS for humanitarian work and from Nigeria's Global Network of Socioeconomic and Financial Evolution for the African continent. Awarded the International Leader for Peace certificate for a period of three years, because of the work she has done in international organizations, especially the United Nations, for twenty years, she says that during this mandate she will be implementing peace and citizenship education activities. Cape Verde and ECOWAS. According to this humanist, peace cannot be achieved without working on the development and observance of human rights for all and with the “inclusion of women, children and youth, people with special needs in cities where there are greater opportunities for economic development. “The inclusion of all is the way to achieve peace, in addition to the work that must naturally be done in cooperation for local development, because peace must happen in the daily life of neighborhoods and cities,” he says. Since receiving the distinctions, Janice da Silva has been performing her duties with the participation in events together with Universities, Secondary Schools, NGOs and Community Associations in Cape Verde and other African countries, as she believes these actors are the accelerators in the implementation. Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, which will transform the world without leaving anyone behind with local actions that inspire the new way of making international development cooperation. Janice da Silva has a Master's degree in Diplomatic Studies and International Development Cooperation.