Our Pledge to Act: End Child Labour
2021 is the United Nations Year for the Elimination of Child Labour. Child labour can be defined as any work that deprives a child of their childhood. A child who is forced to work instead of play…
Interns go Virtual
It is a truth universally acknowledged (as Jane Austen might say!) that many Loreto students across Australia dream of the opportunity to work at the United Nations (UN). They study the history and aims of the UN in…
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
This day was recognised by the UN in 2011. On this day, individuals and organisations worldwide highlight the importance of the rights of older people as prevention against the mistreatment and harm occurring in…
EARTH: OUR MOTHER, OUR HOME, OUR FUTURE!
I call on the Member States of the UN to recognise the interconnectedness of climate, biodiversity and the positive future of the planet…
The Sustainable Development Goals: a road to ending poverty
The decision, on 25 September 2015, by the 193 member states of the UN to endorse, support and promote a global program to eradicate world poverty…
International Women’s Day 2018 – #PressforProgress
Women have, of late, been in the news for all the wrong reasons. The power imbalance in so many work places, where sexual harassment and abuse are part of…
70 years Enshrining our Rights and Freedoms
Confronted by the worst that human beings can do to each other, the drafters of the International Declaration of Human Rights set about articulating…
Webinar for IBVM/CJ Worldwide Network
NGO representatives Cecilia O’Dwyer ibvm and Cynthia Mathew CJ at the IBVM NGO Office, New York are teaming up to bring YOU a webinar which will…
World Day Against Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is a multi-billion-dollar industry, second only to the drug trade in financial gain and is estimated to involve around 21 million people…
Reflections from the United Nations
For many the image of the UN is of a large, ponderous bureaucracy striving for world order against insuperable odds – while there may be a grain of truth in this it is far from the truth…