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Swords Into Plowshares

Reflections from the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program and the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations

Observing the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide—the systematic massacre of one and a half million Armenians that began on April 24, 1915, and continued into the early 1920s. The 221st General Assembly (2014) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) called on congregations to remember this event in worship on April 26, 2015 (the… Read more »

International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Today, Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations intern Kyla Korvne attended the unveiling ceremony of the Permanent Memorial to Honour the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (co-organized by the Permanent Memorial Committee, the United Nations Office for Partnerships, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the NGO Relations Section, Outreach… Read more »

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) oral statement at Commission on the Status of Women

This story originally appeared in the Presbyterian News Service. Thanks to our colleague Rick Jones for writing this story! The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) made an oral statement yesterday to the 59th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Ryan Smith, Presbyterian representative to the United Nations, presented the statement during Wednesday’s General Debate session…. Read more »

UNICEF opens the tap

The UNICEF Tap Project is back! This year’s initiative asks Americans to unlock 14 million days of clean, safe water for children around the world by encouraging you to stop texting, calling, emailing, tweeting and posting — and challenge your friends to do the same. Millions of children around the globe do not have safe,… Read more »

From Beijing to Now

The Reverend Dr. Bebb Stone reflects on her time as a Presbyterian participant in the Beijing Conference and as a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) delegate to this year’s Commission on the Status of Women: As a Presbyterian woman who went with our church to Beijing in 1995, I have been deeply touched to be with the… Read more »

Presbyterian women at the UN – Libby McDermott

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 »

Beth Olker on the UN CSW week one

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 »

Amen for organizing

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 »

Diversity at the UN Commission on the Status of Women

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 »

#imamsforshe

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 »