Swords Into Plowshares Reflections from the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program and the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations

March 8, 2015

March in March

BY Mark Koenig Posted at 11:45pm

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

Sunday in Forest Hills

BY Mark Koenig Posted at 11:29pm

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

Seeking justice for women together

BY Mark Koenig Posted at 10:48pm

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

Presbyterian Orientation – Commission on the Status of Women

BY Mark Koenig Posted at 10:15pm

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 »

February 28, 2015

March for justice for women

BY Mark Koenig Posted at 11:24am

In commemoration of the 20-year anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Presbyterian participants in the 59th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women will join the march for gender equality on International Women’s Day! Please join us and our partners, the City of New York, the UN Women for… Read more »

February 12, 2015

For a world where children are children

BY Mark Koenig Posted at 6:26pm

‘Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.’ – Matthew 19:14 February 12, 2015 marks the thirteenth anniversary of the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement… Read more »

February 5, 2015

Advocacy Training Weekend 2015

BY Mark Koenig Posted at 3:03pm

April 17-20, 2015Washington, DC Everywhere people face severe human rights violations for political and economic gain. The United States holding nearly a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Young children forced to work in mineral mines in the Congo. African Farmers forced off their land as part of corporate land grabbing. Low-income people in the United… Read more »

February 3, 2015

To enhance the strength of human rights law

BY Mark Koenig Posted at 4:14pm

On January 23, the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations provided a seminar for the International Law Society from the University of Baltimore School of Law on the topic of human rights. Speaking at the seminar were: Shulamith Koenig, Founding President, People’s Movement for Human Rights Learning (formerly known as People’s Decade for Human Rights Education)… Read more »

January 28, 2015

World Interfaith Harmony Week 2015

BY Mark Koenig Posted at 11:45am

Observe World Interfaith Harmony Week We live in an interfaith world. This brings challenges and opportunities. Respectful Presence: An Understanding of Interfaith Prayer and Celebration from a Reformed Christian Perspective, a document commended to congregations and governing bodies of the…

International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, 2015

BY Mark Koenig Posted at 2:33pm

The Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations joins colleagues today recognizing the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. In 2005 the UN General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Through this commemoration, the UN… Read more »

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) Blogs

Swords Into Plowshares

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