Each month the UN highlights one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS). In May, Goal 15 looks at Life on Land. “Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss”. There are 12 targets and 14 indicators for SDG 15. […]
We are preparing for the UN Forest Forum this week, May 8-11, 2023. The saying goes Water is Life. We can say the same thing about Forests. Forests are as essential to life as water is essential to life. Our forests contain over 80% of our biodiversity. Forests are our carbon storage banks. Forests support […]
It has been a magical week at the UN. We opened the Indigenous Peoples Forum on April 17th in the General Assembly Hall, with an incredible Indigenous Prayer. As I entered the General Assembly Hall with the Achuar people who traveled from the Amazon River Basin in Ecuador to attend this important Indigenous we met […]
This month at the United Nations is the twenty-second session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples. The Forum runs from April 17-28th and will be in person, the first one since 2019. The theme is: “indigenous peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach”. Although the forum will be in […]
6,000+ women descended upon New York City on March 5th for the 67th Commission on the Status of Women. What a sight and what a delight. Eleven Dominican Sisters from the U.S. and outside the U.S. attended the event from March 4 to 18th.The sisters came from Michigan and from the Philippines, England, Zimbabwe, South […]
We welcomed 10 Dominican Sisters to the CSW 67 last week March 4-10th and a new sister, Ellen Burkhardt on Sunday, March 12th. Some of the sisters had never been to the UN or the United States. We were very happy to host them for this important gathering of women. We are most appreciative of […]
February 6th marked the beginning of the Social Development Commission at the UN. It was a full week of input from the Commission on Inequality, decent work and full employment for all. The NGO Social Development Committee headed by Sr. Jean Quinn, Daughter of Wisdom, and the executive committee did an outstanding job in creating […]
This Year’s Priority Theme: Creating full and productive employment and decent work for all as a way of overcoming inequalities to accelerate the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. From September to December the NGO CSOD committee has been holding education sessions in preparation for […]
International Day of the Girl is celebrated each year on October 11th as declared by the United Nations as a way to give girls a platform to raise their voices and demand equality of rights, education, and health, and to commemorate underprivileged girls. This year was the International Day of the Girls’ 10th Anniversary and […]
November 6-18th is the COP 27 meeting in Egypt. Sister Sharon Zayac shares an introduction to this important next step in saving our planet. A huge delegation of people will be in Egypt at the foot of Mt Sinai where the monks of St. Catherine have been in continuous prayer for 17 centuries. The first official […]
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