Vincentian Family at the U.N.
The United Nations is turning 75
The official celebrations of UN75 is happening on September 21, 2020 at the UN. You are invited as part of “We the Peoples of the United Nations” to use the following prayer to envision a new, reformed and transformed UN.
United Nations At 75: Faith Based Organizations Envision UN Reforms
The UN’s diamond anniversary, has given people globally pause to consider needed reforms at the UN; changes which would make it more effective.
The United Nations: Talk or Action?
The UN invites us to an Action Week, September 18-26, a week of concentrated global action for People and the Planet.
175 nations sign International climate change agreement
Sr. Teresa Kotturan, (second from right) U.N. representative of the Sisters of Charity Federation attended the Paris climate change meetings, held Nov. 30 to Dec. 12. It is with great joy that what she witnessed will now be signed in a ceremony at the United Nations....
Holy See Panels Call For Stepping Up Anti-trafficking Efforts
“Here in 2016 we talk a good game on anti-trafficking and slavery. Now is the time for action,” The Holy See delivered some powerful messages about ending human trafficking and slavery, April 7, says Sr. Margaret O'Dwyer, DC, during a multi-panel discussion at the...
World Leaders Invited to Paris Agreement (COP 21) Signing Ceremony
"The world's leaders are invited to the Paris Agreement Signing Ceremony of the 21st Conference of parties (COP21) at the United Nations on April 22, 2016," says Sister Teresa Kotturan, Sisters of Charity Federation representative to the U.N. The signing event will be...
Human rights in Haiti
Guillermo Campuzano, CM, the Congregation of the Mission's representative to the United Nations, writes... The Vincentian Family at the United Nations is part of a coalition of NGOs called the Working Group on Mining. This coalition prepared, after much consultation...
Grassroots Matter at the United Nations
Sr. Margaret O’Dwyer, DC writes from the UN: Voices from the grassroots were perhaps the most powerful during recent UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) sessions because they spoke of social and economic realities experienced by everyday people. About 4,000 to...
Systemic Change Meeting Includes UN NGO Reps
At the Bronx Campus of Mount Saint Vincent College, on February 26, representatives of several branches of the Vincentian Family met to discuss ways to more effectively work together to help people living in poverty improve their living conditions through Systemic...
Commission on the Status of Women: You can participate!
From March 14 – 24, 2016, the UN Commission on the Status of Women will convene to consider "Women’s Empowerment and its Link to Sustainable Development." Sr. Teresa Kotturan, SCN of the Sisters of Charity Federation NGO at the UN, invites us to, Engage in the...
Step it Up for Gender Equality — U.N. Initiative
AIC's Natalie Monteza was Facebooking up a storm on International Women's Day (March 8). Guillermo Campuzano, C.M. -- the C.M. representative at the United Nations -- wrote me about this, too. Here's a good summary of what the U.N. is up to. Senior United Nations...
Encourage World Leaders to Sign Climate Change Agreement
On December 11, 195 nations reached an agreement in Paris which could save the planet—The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This Agreement, however, will not take effect unless a sufficient number of member states officially sign onto it between...