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Posts Categorized: Commission on the Status of Women
March 15, 2015
Libby McDermott, member of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) delegation to the 59th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women and Young Adult Volunteer Alumna, reflects on her experience: I am no longer a YAV, but I have decided to continue using my Boston YAV blog to share my experience of being a young… Read more »
March 15, 2015
Beth Olker, member of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) delegation to the 59th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women and student at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, reflects on her experience. I am right smack dab in the middle of my two-week journey as a PC(USA) delegate to the United Nations’ Commission… Read more »
March 11, 2015
The Rev. Bebb Stone, member of the Presbyterian delegation to the 59th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women An event run by United Methodist Women today (11 March 2015) at the Church Center for the United Nations brought together a panel of self-described “grassroots women.” They came from Honduras, Cameroon, Guatemala, Uganda,… Read more »
March 11, 2015
by Jackie Spycher I attended a panel on women’s rights in Nordic countries. The first panelist observed: People often ask me if I was present in Beijing. Then they realize I’m young and they say ‘Were you even alive during Beijing?’ This annoys me. Of course I was! I was nine years old and busy… Read more »
March 11, 2015
by Beth Olker UN Women has recently begun #heforshe, a “Solidarity Movement in Gender Equality“. This movement is being heralded as a transition and solidification of the feminism movement as one whose supporters and benefactors are not only women. The effort affirms that “gender equality is not just a women’s issue” but call it a human… Read more »
March 8, 2015
Around the world, nations, non-governmental organizations, civil society, and individuals observe March 8 as International Women’s Day. In New York, a March was held from Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza to Times Square. Thousands of women and men marched to call for all women’s rights to be honored and for full equality for women. Presbyterians were among the marchers: Many… Read more »
March 8, 2015
A number of the Presbyterian participants in the 59 Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women attended the morning worship service at First Presbyterian Church of Forest Hills to hear the Rev. Larissa Kwong Abazia, pastor of the congregation and Vice-Moderator of the 221st General Assembly of the 221st General Assembly (2014)… Read more »
March 8, 2015
Saturday, March 7, 2015 A girl born today will be an 81-year-old grandmother before she has the same chance as a man to be CEO of a company. So UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told those who gathered for the Ecumenical Women Orientation to the 59th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of… Read more »
March 8, 2015
Weather played havoc with air travel for some participants, but almost 30 of the Presbyterians coming to New York for the 59 Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women gathered with support staff from Racial Ethnic & Women’s Ministries and the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations at the Church of the… Read more »
May 5, 2014
The best, most lasting way for women to change the world is for each woman to go for her dreams. And I know this because I had 300 of the most powerful, influential women in the world imbed that sentiment into my soul in the course of a week. The 58th Commission on the Status… Read more »
