by John Freund, CM | Jul 14, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
The United Nations, faced with a dearth of donors, pitched a tax on the 1,200 billionaires worldwide billionaires to help raise money for development projects in the world’s poorest nations, according to Bloomberg News Placing a 1 percent levy on “individual wealth...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 19, 2012 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
Sister Germaine Price, representing the Company of the Daughters of Charity at the United Nations, reports on the international site of the Daughters of Charity  about the following activities in the UN in New York: Over the last two decades, there have been many...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 17, 2012 | Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
We are pleased to inform you that we have been officially admitted as an UN-NGO  member of ECOSOC under the category of Special Consultative Status with no  voting rights. This consultative status provides NGOs like us with access to not only  ECOSOC but also to its...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 10, 2012 | Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
Student managers from the Tobin College of Business undergraduate Global Loan Opportunities for Budding Entrepreneurs (GLOBE) Program were invited to present at the Fiftieth Session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD) at the United Nations Headquarters in...
by Famvin Media Resources | Feb 28, 2012 | Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
The Vincentian Family at the United Nations  no longer active) a UN Orientation for their members from April 18-20, 2012. The orientation will provide participants with an overview of the UN system, the work of the Commissions and committees, a visit to the mission of...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 31, 2012 | Congregation of the Mission, Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
The NGO of Congregation of the Mission and Daughters of Charity reports on a victory for domestic workers. Domestic workers, people who work in other people’s homes in order to support themselves and their families, are extremely vulnerable because they work away from...
