Why are we at the UN? What do we do? Here you'll find ol the information, specially about the areas we work on: Human rights, Empowerment of women and girls Human trafficking and Poverty eradication (MDGs)

1. Seekers of truth and doers of justice in the 21st
century
Adapted from a Report given by Anne Kelly ibvm.
April 2013
PART 1.

2. Background
 Loreto has had a representative at the United Nations since 2003.
 Evanne Hunter from the Canadian Province was the first Representative.
 Doryne Kirby from the Canadian Province
 Marilla De Souza from Darjeeling Region
 Anne Kelly from Australia/South East Asian Province
 Cecilia O’Dwyer from Spanish Province
Focus areas of attention in the past have been:
o Millennium Development Goals
o Gender equity
o Human trafficking
o Climate Change
o HIV and AIDS
o Innovative Financing for Development
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Why are we at the UN?

4. Primary Goals at the UN
Our primary goals at the UN are:
1. to work for systemic change to redress the major inequities in our world with
a particular focus on the eradication of poverty and the promotion of gender
equity for women and girls
2. To promote an understanding of the factors underlying systemic injustice
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5.  Our main areas of focus:
o Human rights – underpins all issues
o Empowerment of women and girls
o Human trafficking
o Poverty eradication (MDGs)
o Significant omission: care of the Earth and sustainability
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6. 1. The NGO has developed over the years. During the last three years we
- have been commended for our Annual Reports to Department of
Public Information (DPI)
- have conducted workshops at the last two DPI conferences
- have conducted a highly successful workshop on means to prevent
human trafficking at the recent Commission on the Status of women
(CSW)
- have established good working relationships with a number of UN
missions
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7. Committees and Commissions Working Groups and Task Force
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8. 2a)
Working Group on Girls
In the advocacy task force
Research and writing ‘interventions’
Producing documents on violence against women and girls
an FGM fact sheet
an indigenous girls fact sheet
a child-headed households fact sheet
for advocacy visits to missions of Member States
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There is a direct correlation between girls’ school
attendance and community development

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2b). Committee to Stop Trafficking in Humans
Labour trafficking (focus on children)
Advocacy visits to UN missions
Conducted workshop at the recent CSW
2c). Commission on Social Development
Research and writing of interventions
Breakfast advocacy meetings with UN ambassadors

10. 2d). RUN (Religious at the UN)
Facilitating advocacy workshops for members of RUN
Planning a reflection day for RUN members
2e). Religious NGOs
Interfaith events, liturgies, presentations
2f). UN Meetings
General Assembly, ECOSOC, panel discussions, report launches,
briefings, special events
2g). Commissions
Women, Indigenous, Social Development
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WHOLE GROUP DPI CONFERENCE MELBOURNE

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Alex Flores Rene Salazar, Mauricio Orellana presented a workshop on
sustainable farming in Bonn. Canada USA have a long-term commitment
to El Salvador

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Clare Condon - Australia
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Anne Kelly – Cecilia O’Dwyer
Pat Hanvey - Zambia
Ana Stakaj – Albania – CSW 2012

16.  This information gives an overview of our engagement
with the UN in New York through the UN
Representative.
 The IBVM/Loreto world –wide network and the
UN will be dealt with in Part 2 at a later date.
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