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Our Declaration was first crafted by Wayne Kines—one of NIGH's Founders—who had also served as the Founding Director of Communications for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). From his decades of experience as a global-level  communications strategist— 
he suggested that this text become our ‘credo’ to build and strengthen our growing collaborative outreach and work worldwide. As we were developing NIGH in our early stages, the 2003 global SARS epidemic was killing patients and nurses in a Toronto—down the street from where we were meeting. Thus, our Declaration's text was proposed with deep concern for the health and well-being of nurses and all humanity—becoming a shared credo to address today’s most challenging times.
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You're welcome to sign the Nightingale Declaration — joining in solidarity & advocacy for nursing the world!
This Declaration was first crafted at an international nursing conference in Toronto in 2003 — during the  global SARS epidemic where many patients and nurses were dying at hospitals nearby.        Today, the global COVID-19 pandemic calls for a renewal of this pledge — beginning with  'We the nurses & concerned citizens....”                    This Declaration​ clarifies and commits to our shared purposes
 to work together to call for — to share ideas — and to build a better world for everyone. In keeping with this call — it also
encourages global citizen advocacy to achieve the 17 United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals ​— often called the  SDGs.
In the 2020 Year of the Nurse & the Midwife / Nightingale Bicentenary—from across the world
300 Nursing & Midwifery Leaders Share the
​Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World Together

​This short video features more than 300 Nursing & Midwifery Leaders — from across the world — who together recited the'Nightingale Declaration for a Health World'  during the  closing ceremonies of the 2020 Conference of the Commonwealth Nurses & Midwives Federation on March 7, 2020 at the Royal College of Physicians in London, UK.