07 May 2012
The Permanent Session on Indigenous Issues is in progress at the UN from Monday 7th, May 2012. The special theme this year is the “Doctrine of Discovery” and its enduring impact on indigenous peoples throughout the world.
19 April 2012
“Rio+20” is the short name for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012. Twenty years have passed since the landmark 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. The first Rio conference gave rise to Agenda 21, the document which has guided our countries in our efforts to make our world more sustainable but, as we all know, it has not been sufficient
12 April 2012
Mary Ward International Australia (MWIA) warmly invites you to the Mary Ward Justice Lectures with Fr. Daniel Groody CSC, throughout Australia during May 2012. Daniel Groody, theologian, author and film maker, will draw on his many years experience of pastoral work along the US-Mexican border, and subsequent research and theological reflection on issues related to globalisation and immigration.
28 March 2012
The Canadian Lorettos recently organised a seminar on human trafficking that attracted much interest from a wide range of people, including male and female high schools students.
26 March 2012
Mary Ward International Australia (MWIA) has pleasure in inviting you to Listen Talk Act Indigenous Conversations at The Auditorium, Loreto Kirribilli 85 Carabella St, Kirribilli on Monday 26 March, 6.30pm
09 March 2012
From 29 Feb.29 to 9 March, representatives of member states of the United Nations spent two weeks working on ways to improve the situation of rural women throughout the world. At the same time civil society women came in their thousands, bringing their concerns and experience of specific situations and aspects of this ongoing process. The official negotiations by governments were accompanied by over 300 NGO events. Boys and men also took part in the numerous activities and discussions.
08 March 2012
The Commission on the Status of Women is holding its fifty-sixth session at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from Monday, 27 February to Friday, 9 March 2012. This year the priority theme to be addressed is: The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges.
26 February 2012
The Loreto Sisters have pleasure in inviting you to Sunday Circle Refugee Conversations: Sunday 26 February Treacy Centre
17 February 2012
Two weeks ago I welcomed Cecilia O’Dwyer ibvm from the Spanish Province to New York, where she will work for the next few months as an intern at Loreto’s UN Office. She arrived hot on the heels of my previous intern, Clare Condon, from Australia. I asked both women to explain why they had wanted to take on such a challenge.
31 January 2012
Among the hundreds of NGOs (Non-Government Organisations) working at the United Nations, two have a very special bond. The Loretto Community, founded in the USA in 1812, and the Loreto Sisters, founded in Europe in 1609.
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