By Katherine Maloney, Dominican Volunteer This year marks the sixteenth anniversary of the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, which formally recognized the changing nature of warfare and the continued exclusion of women from the peace process. On October 25, the Security Council held an open debate, and the energy in the room […]
By Katherine Maloney, Dominican Volunteer The International Day of the Girl Child and the “Girls Speak Out” takeover of the United Nations Economic and Social Council Chamber was on October 11. As a proud member of the Working Group on Girls, the Dominican Leadership Conference participated in “11 Days of Action” on social media to […]
By Katherine Maloney, Dominican Volunteer August 29th marked the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. Each year, this day reaffirms the global voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing, considers the possibility for a world without nuclear tests (and, further, without nuclear weapons) and renews the call for the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), […]
By Sister Margaret Mayce, OP Indigenous peoples account for 5 percent of the world’s population, while representing 15 percent of those living in poverty. As many as 33 percent of all people living in extreme rural poverty globally are from indigenous communities. Those figures are particularly alarming given the fact that so much of the […]
By Sr. Marcelline Koch, OP (Springfield, IL USA) “A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground.” I heard these words from Canadian indigenous women when I attended the 2016 U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. The women spoke for women throughout the world when they declared in […]
By Sister Margaret Mayce, OP By now I suspect that many of you have read the article in the March 20th New York Times Sunday Review entitled I Love the UN, but It Is Failing, by Anthony Banbury, a former assistant secretary general for field support. He poignantly begins by saying “I care deeply for […]
By Alandra Scott, Dominican Volunteer Recently The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Group of Friends United against Human Trafficking held the event; In Stronger Partnership and Better Coordination of Efforts to Stop Human Trafficking: Eradicating Modern-Day Slavery through Sustainable Development. At this event, many ambassadors, state representatives and Civil Society Organizations gathered to […]
Introduction by Sister Margaret Mayce, OP Over the past five years, I have been blessed with the assistance of a Dominican Volunteer here in New York, as part of our Dominican presence at the United Nations. Ohio Dominican University graduate Kelly Litt returned to Ohio in July, where she is currently working with a non-profit […]
By Kelly Litt, Dominican Volunteer Within two weeks, the world seemed to turn upside down. Tragedies, challenges, and controversies in the news and in communities around the country have filled our TV screens and our lives with both sadness and hope, and ultimately, with a call to love. The country was devastated after the massacre […]
By Kelly Litt, Dominican Volunteer As a member of the Working Group on Girls (WGG), a coalition of over 80 national and international NGOs at the United Nations, I aim to work with and for girls to ensure their rights and voices are included at the United Nations and in international agreements. Within the WGG, […]
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