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December 8, 2015
from Gregg Brekke of the Presbyterian News Service Human Rights Day, observed each year on December 10, commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. This year’s Human Rights Day is devoted to the launch of a year-long campaign called “Our Rights. Our Freedoms. Always.” The campaign… Read more »
October 1, 2015
Matt Cowell, our YAV attended his first UN General Assembly this week. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is accredited to the United Nations and through the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations advocates and engages the United Nations. Read his blog below: Greetings from the United Nations! The General Debate of the seventieth session of… Read more »
April 8, 2013
Last week, I hosted a workshop at the Compassion, Peace and Justice Training Day in Washington, DC. The workshop focused on global discipleship and food and hunger advocacy within the international community. Participants looked at three critical global issues around food and hunger policy: soil, water and land grabbing. Participants talked about ways in which… Read more »
November 27, 2012
This prayer of the day for International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women was composed by The Rev. Sarah Henkel and offered at the White Plains Presbyterian Church. It originally appeared on Pastor Jeff’s Blog. It is reprinted here with permission and in the hope that others will use or adapt the prayer… Read more »
August 4, 2012
“Why are the hands red?” The children’s summer program from the First Chinese Presbyterian Church of New York City had come to the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations to learn about child soldiers and to participate in the Red Hand Campaign. Due to the size of the group – 74 children and 12 counselors,… Read more »
March 20, 2012
Women make up the majority of the world’s poor. The reality of the world today is that women are disproportionately affected by poverty, due to unequal access to resources and opportunities, discriminatory land and inheritance laws, and unequal distribution of household resources. Violence against women persists, particularly in regions ravaged by war and natural disasters…. Read more »
February 27, 2012
Ecumenical Women’s worship this morning was led by the Lutheran World Federation and the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Here’s a clip from the closing song.
February 26, 2012
H.E. Marjon Kamara, Permanent Representative of Liberia to the United Nations and Chair of the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women welcomes everyone to this year’s session. Note that the volume appears to be low.
February 26, 2012
Harriet Tubman. Eleanor Roosevelt. Maggie Kuhn. Naomi Rose. Merdine T. Morris. On this day – who are the women who have served as advocates for whom you give thanks? Advocacy took central stage at the Ecumenical Women‘s Orientation. The afternoon workshops focused on advocacy (with Presbyterian leadership in each of them: Allie Naskret, Margaret Anderson,… Read more »
February 8, 2012
Urge President Obama to send the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to the United States Senate for ratification. The CRC sets the standard for children’s welfare around the world. The United States played a major role in drafting the CRC. However, the United States and Somalia are the only countries that have… Read more »
