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Posts Tagged: young women’s leadership development
April 1, 2013
Women of faith are reinterpreting the traditional understandings of sacred texts of Christianity to challenge violence condoned and promoted within the church. What can we learn from such efforts about confronting all forms of institutional violence? On 6 March 2013, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Presbyterian Women in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Young Women’s Leadership Development of… Read more »
March 31, 2013
Sung Yeon Choi-Morrow shares her work confronting economic violence against women through the organization Interfaith Worker Justice at the parallel event From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
March 31, 2013
The Rev. Carmen Torres, Presbyterian Women, and Alex Zareth, Young Women’s Leadership Development Field Staff for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) present an exegesis of the Biblical story of John 8:1-11 at the parallel event From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status… Read more »
March 31, 2013
Participants in From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence, the parallel event at the Commission on the Status of Women, discussed what they had heard in small groups and then shared their commitments on how they would follow up at home. Commitments included: Break the code of silence. If you know… Read more »
March 3, 2013
Who is here?What is our task?What will we do to achieve that task?What else will happen? Around a Christ candle, in the Fellowship Hall of New York’s Church of the Covenant, Presbyterian participants in the 57th Commission on the Status of Women gathered on Friday, March 1 to explore these and related questions. Who is… Read more »
March 6, 2012
A Parallel Event at the 56th Commission on the Status of Women During this parallel event women from rural contexts shared their stories connecting experience to issues, Global North to Global South, and the Bible to advocacy, with small group opportunities to learn more and determine actions we can take during the Commission on the… Read more »
March 6, 2012
During the parallel event From Story to Skills: Advocating with Women in Rural Areas, held at the 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, participants were invited to share action plans that they plan to implement: look at laws that limit movement of women raise voices beyond the CSW; go beyond our… Read more »
March 6, 2012
During the parallel event From Story to Skills: Advocating with Women in Rural Areas, held at the 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, participants were invited to gather and discuss and share key insights they gleaned: share, connect, net and work about resources go beyond the group gathered for the CSW… 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.
