Swords Into Plowshares millennium development goals Archives

February 27, 2016

Follow the 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

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Over thirty Presbyterians, including fourteen young adults, will attend the 60th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women from March 14-25, 2016 in New York. The Presbyterian presence is made possible because the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is an accredited non-governmental organization with the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council. The Presbyterian… Read more »

July 18, 2013

The World We Want

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Today, on Nelson Mandela Day, I joined our interns Grace, Marissa, Anna and Brendan at a consultation on The World We Want Platform. “The World We Want is a platform created by the United Nations and Civil Society to amplify people’s voices in the process of building a global agenda for sustainable development.” The dialogue… Read more »

May 31, 2013

High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda

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by Brendan Welsh Today, the High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda met to discuss their report, and answer questions from representatives of various countries, NGOs, and various government agencies. Michael Anderson, Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on the UN Development Goals began by introducing the five Transformative Shifts laid out in the report: 1. Leave… Read more »

October 15, 2012

The MDGs and World Poverty Day

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A one-day social media action for International Day for the Eradication of Poverty #EndPoverty – 17 October, 2012 At the 2000 UN Millennium Summit, world leaders from rich and poor countries alike committed themselves – at the highest political level – to a set of eight time-bound targets to help fight extreme poverty worldwide by… Read more »

March 5, 2012

Intersections: CTAUN and CSW: education and sustainability

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Written by Grace Bickers After advocacy training at both the Presbyterian and Ecumenical Women’s orientations for the Commission on the Status of Women and a week’s worth of insight from the remarkable women making up these delegations, I was excited to learn how the information I learned during a previous opportunity to attend the annual… Read more »

April 1, 2011

Habitat for Elgin – Water for the World

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A group from the Agape House Center for Christian Ministry at the University of Illinois at Chicago went to Elgin to work on a Habitat for Humanity house on March 23, 2011. On that same day, they collected money for…

March 19, 2011

What do we do?

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We ansered that question on Friday for a group from First Presbyterian Church in Bloomington, Indiana. At the end of a long day, at the end of a long week, the group arrived at the Presbyterian Ministry at the United…

March 14, 2011

Share a drink of clean water

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Participate in the UNICEF Tap Project Providing clean water helps achieve Millennium Development Goal 4: Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

March 13, 2011

About the UNICEF Tap Project

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Share a drink of water through the UNICEF Tap Project Check out participating restaurants Find ways to help In 2007, the UNICEF Tap Project was born in New York City based on a simple concept: restaurants would ask their patrons…

March 1, 2011

New Presbyterian representative to the United Nations

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Ryan Smith has been called as the new Presbyterian representative to the United Nations on the staff of the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations. Ryan brings experience working in faith-based non-governmental organizations in the United Nations community and Washington….

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