The following bookmarks are included for navigating to some of the more common topics:
 HIV/AIDS   Indigenous Peoples   Migration   Poverty   Prayers  Trafficking  Water
 

Informe no-gobernamental sobre la situación de violencia intrafamiliar y femicidio que afecta a las mujeres en Nicaragua

 
A Research Tool:  UN Issues 2005 Report on World Social Situation - http://www.un.org/publications   See description at updates/September 2005.htm.

Accreditation, presentations at August 2005 Update
Talk of Ana Martinez de Luco: The UN with Heart
 
HIV/AIDS

World Aids Day Prayer (December 1)

In May 2006, UNANIMA International sponsored Thandiwe Mathunjwe from Swaziland to speak to the UN General Assembly session on HIV/AIDS about the concerns that she and the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart headed by Diane Dalle Molle, MSC, have for the care of the hundreds of children in their care.   Click here to read Ms Mathunjwe’s compelling statement

Article about the 2005 Session of the Commission on Population and Development
Call for renewed commitment in the fight against HIV/AIDS   By Frances Kendrick, SNJM


TRAFFICKING 
 

“Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Human Trafficking,”  by Jennifer Burn and Louise Cleary. Presented at Geneva, October 2007.

 
Conference on Trafficking and Prostitution in Barcelona 28-29 Septembe
 Sessions on Trafficking -Vancouver  November 2-3, 2007: ;  Red Deer on October 12-14, 2007, poster, registration

View the powerful comments of the girls present at the 51st UN Commission on the Status of Women during the GIRLS SPEAK OUT moderated by Katie Couric. http://www.un.org/webcast/2007.html  Click on the special event for 2 March 2007.

David Bouchard, sfo  has a new power point on Human Trafficking.  Access it here.
 

 

AUSTRALIAN NGO SHADOW REPORT ON  TRAFFICKED WOMEN IN AUSTRALIA
 
JOINT STATEMENT FROM AUSTRALIAN CAMBODIAN AND THAI NGOs  CONCERNING TRAFFICKED WOMEN
 

Uproot the Demand for Trafficking of Women and Children

for Sexual Exploitation.   Together we can do it!      Click here for the flyer.

Sexual Exploitation, Trauma and Women’s Health   Attached is a copy of the power point given by Dr. K.  Wendy Freed at the UNANIMA International parallel event on 27 February 2006 Commission on the Status of Women. It presents the effects of trauma from sexual exploitation as an obstacle to women's development.  It focuses particularly on Dr. Freed's research work in Cambodia and her clinical work with refugees in Seattle.    Attachment

Report of the European NGO preparatory meeting for the Commission on the Status of Women. Background documents, prayers on special themes, campaign resources, information on our activities and more. Click below.
Alternative NGO statement on the Situation of Child Slaves in Gabon presented to CEDAW committee 10 January 2005.
Alternative NGO statement on the Situation of Trafficking in Italy presented to CEDAW committee on 17 January 2005.

 
MIGRATION
NGO Report on the Situation of the Migrant Women in Mexico.
 

POVERTY
Report on World Bank Meeting in Washington D.C., October 18-22
 
Financing for Development-Report on Civil Society meeting in NY

Presentation to the Civil Society Forum in Preparation for the 44th Session of the
 United Nations Commission on Social Development   Jesusa Gamboa (Philippines)
 
Poverty Eradication     Has it happened at the community level?     Sr. Marcellina Aguiar CCV, India 

The development of the most vulnerable in Pakistan     Atif Jamil
 44th Session of the Commission on Social Development    PRESENTATION    ERADICATION OF POVERTY  Prepared by:  Sister Celerina Estacio, S.P.      Sisters of Providence (SP) – Montreal CANADA
 
PRAYERS
FOR LENT         Week 1          Week 2
Week 3		 Week 4
Week 5
Week 6		 FOR
ADVENT		 Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week4		 ROSARY
MEDITATIONS
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TRAFFICKING		 World Aids Day Prayer (December 1)
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

Statements by Teresa Ulloa and Alma Bulawan at the UN Hearings to bring the voices of the people into the UN deliberations - 24 June 2005.

More about the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

 
WATER

CONSUMPTION OF WATER : a short overview with stories and reflections.

Article about the 13th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development
Working for access to water at the UN – an experience at the Commission on Sustainable Development – 13  by Elizabeth Katleho Khang SNJM (Lesotho)

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