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| Url: | http://maryanncp.wordpress.com/ |
| Author(s): | Mary Ann Strain |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | Girls' Rights, women's rights, Passionists |
| Description: | I help represent the Passionists at the United Nations in New York City. My blog is about issues I'm working on and things that I learn there. |
| Ratings |  (1 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 15 Followers |
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Human Rights and HIV/AIDS
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Today the United Nations marked World AIDS Day by highlighting the connection between human rights promotion and successful efforts to combat the HIV/AIDS.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a...more |
2009-12-01
Civil Society Must Pressure Governments to “Seal the Deal” in Copenhagen
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In April 2009, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the United Nation’s international climate change campaign under the title “Seal the Deal!” This campaign is about mobilizi...more |
2009-11-13
“The Journey, Exposing the Sex Trade” Coming to NYC
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Through a striking art installation, actress Emma Thompson chronicles the story of a naive 18-year-old from a small Eastern European republic who was caught up in London’s sex trade. Her name...more |
2009-11-04
COUNTDOWN TO COPENHAGEN: Time to Ensure Enough for All
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December 2009 will bring a great opportunity to curb climate change. Government representatives will be meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark for crucial international talks and to finalize a new global ...more |
2009-11-03
Help Stop Child Sex Trafficking
| Right now before the US Congress there is a bill that could make a real difference in the fight against the buying and selling and trafficking of innocent children, most of whom are girls.This bill...more |
2009-11-02
Coming to your area soon: Breakbone Fever and Jericho Buttons
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I spent the month of August living and working with our sisters in Argentina. Of course it was winter there, and when I arrived at the beginning of the month, it was cold. Soon, however, the weathe...more |
2009-10-29
Giving Voice to the Victims and Survivors of Human Trafficking
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Photo # 418239 UN Photo/Mark Garten The United Nations hosted a special event at its New York Headquarters yesterday for the victims and survivors of human trafficking, with Secretary-General Ba...more |
2009-10-23
Village ‘witches’ beaten in India
| Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in in a remote village in Deoghar district in India’s Jharkhand state. Lo...more |
2009-10-20
Teaching Peace – PeaceJam
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Today’s briefing for NGOs at the United Nations was part of the Department of Public Information’s (DPI) Faith Series, “Islam and its Message of Peace and Understanding among Civi...more |
2009-10-15
Cooking and Friendship
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Yesterday, I learned of a wonderful program that seeks to facilitate the integration of refugee and migrant women in Auckland, New Zealand, called Cooking and Friendship.The concept is simple. Brin...more |
2009-10-09
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