Mercy Global Concern - Archives 2006
Archived items are listed in descending chronological order.
Bridging The Gap between Policy and Practice
September 3-15, 2006
Click here to view Conference Overview... (pdf)
Report Number 1: Teresa Downey rsm (pdf)
Report Number 2: Gladys Bozec rsm (pdf)
Report Number 3: Leonie T Crotty rsm (pdf)
Report Number 4: Charmaine Jayawardene (pdf)
Report Number 5: Angelina Mitre rsm (pdf)
Report Number 6: Mary Oladimeji (pdf)
Report Number 7: Catherine Boyle rsm (pdf)
Report Number 8: Ann Doherty rsm (pdf)
Report Number 9: Carole J. McDonald rsm (pdf)
Report Number 10: Carmel Heagerty rsm (pdf)
Report Number 11: Patricia McMahon rsm (pdf)
Report Number 12: Dolores McGuinness rsm (pdf)
Report Number 13: Shari Roeseler (pdf)
Report Number 14: Elizabeth M. Buns rsm (pdf)
Report Number 15: Margaret Milne rsm (pdf)
Report Number 16: Ann Scully rsm (pdf)
Report Number 17: Margaret Hinchley rsm (pdf)
Report Number 18: Madeline Rockwell (pdf)
Report Number 19: Maureen King (pdf)
Report Number 20: Marie Brown (pdf)
Report Number 21: Denise Coghlan (pdf)
Briefing Notes
December
Briefing Paper Number 3
Human Rights Week Overview (pdf)
Fact Sheet Number 1 - What is Poverty (pdf)
Fact Sheet Number 2 - Poverty and Insecurity (pdf)
Fact Sheet Number 3 - Eliminating Poverty-Not by Bread Alone (pdf)
Fact Sheet number 4 - Compassion or Duty (pdf)
Briefing Paper Number 2: Poverty strongly linked to worldwide inabilities...
Briefing paper Number 1: World AIDS Day: December 2006
November
Briefing paper Number 3: You gotta have faith at the UN
Briefing paper Number 2: International Day for Tolerance
Briefing paper Number 1: International Forum on the Eradication of Poverty.
October
Briefing paper Number 3: Struggle to Confront Three GLobal Challenges - Development, Security, Human Rights (pdf)
Briefing paper Number 2: Governments Can create ‘triple wins’ For migrants (pdf)
Briefing paper Number 1: Alert (pdf)
September
Briefing Paper number 2: “Water is a free Beverage” - Catherine McAuley
Briefing Paper number 1: Moving Development Forward:
Accountability, Transparency, Equitable Trade Policie
August
Briefing Paper number 3: Promotion of Full Employment and Decent Work for All
Briefing Paper number 2: "Migration now has the face of a woman."
Briefing Paper number 1: Letter to the Embassy (pdf)
July
Briefing Paper number 1: Reducing Women's Poverty and Exclusion
Briefing Paper number 2: "The Priorities for the Girl Child - The UNICEF View"
June
Briefing Paper number 2: Mercy Global Concern – UNIFEM
The Theme for Briefing Paper number 1 is Migration:
a) International migration can benefit countries of origin and destination, says Secretary-General, presenting new report to General Assembly
b) Women Face Additional Hardship when Crossing US-Mexico Border
May
Briefing Paper Number 2:
Thirsting for Justice: Religious Orders Partnership Meeting UN (pdf)
The Decade of Freshwater (powerpoint doc)
What a Pretty Blue Planet... (powerpoint doc)
Briefing Paper Number 1: Sustainable Developments
April
Briefing Paper Number 2: Participation of Women in Development
Briefing Paper Number 1: CSW 50th session, “Gender Dimensions of International Migration” What Mercy Has to Offer
March
Briefing Paper Number 1: Speaking Up and Speaking Out
January
Briefing paper Number 2: “U.N. Reform: Can the Churches make a Difference?”
Briefing Paper Number 1: Inequality Matters!
February
Briefing Paper Number 2: GO DECLARATION 44th Session of the Commission on Social Development
English version
Spanish Version
Briefing Paper Number 1: Economic and Social Council
Reports:
December
December 2006 Report Number 1: Press releases: Irish Aid - overseas aid budget and UN cooperation Irish Aid: 6 and 7 December
November
November 2006 Report Number 4: We need to get away from stereotypes, generalizations and preconceptions...
November 2006 Report Number 3: Promotion for Full Employment and Decent Work for All (pdf)
November 2006 Report Number 2: ”Promotion for Full Employment and Decent Work for All”
November 2006 Report Number 1: Kenya Statehouse, Nairobi, Kenya, 14 November 2006...
October
October 2006 Report Number 1: Did you know that AIDS has a woman's face?
October 2006 Report Number 2: DEATH PENALTY: Seven Women Face Stoning in Iran
September
Report Number 1: Impacts of Border Enforcement on Unauthorized Mexican Migration to the United States
Click here for Full Article... (pdf)
Click here for Powerpoint Document... (ppt)
Click Here for Full Article (Memoir) (pdf)
Report Number 2: WGG Action for Girls (pdf)
July
Report Number 3: Press Release: Dalai Lama, Tutu among religious leaders calling on G8 to keep promises
Report Number 2: Israeli-Palestinian conflict can't be reduced to one truth
Report Number 1: Vatican Information Service (VIS)
June
Report Number 2:
Report a): "Hope" is the word as World Refugee Day is marked around the globe
Report b): Remember Responsibility to help keep hope alive, urges Secretary General in message to mark World Refugee Day
Report c): Millions to mark World Refugee Day with message to keep on hoping
Report Number 1: Visit to United Nations
May:
Report Number 2: Putting it Together: AIDS and the Millennium Development Goals (pdf)
Report Number 1: Changing face of Ireland
April:
Report Number 3: Zimbabweans Have 'Shortest Lives'
Report Number 2: Women, ageing and health
Report Number 1: Older Workers Take Most New Jobs
March:
Report Number 3: International Women’s Day
Report Number 2: African NGOs say ‘No’ to terminator technology
Report Number 1: The Girl Child
February
Report Number 3: UN report criticises Australia for delaying East Timor independence ballot
Report Number 2: What is the $100 Laptop, really?
Report Number 1: UNICEF - Child Trafficking News #30 (pdf)
January
Report Number 2: Follow up to the outcome of the twenty-sixth Special Session...
Report Number 1: How did girls fare in the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document?
Special Reports:
December
Number 1: Mercy Global Concern attends major seminar at UNIFEM
November
Number 8: It's on the table: Secretary-General calls for action on GENDER EQUALITY
Number 7: The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child...
Number 6: The Earth Charter / Spirituality (pdf)
Number 5: Message on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Number 4: Eradication of poverty and other development issues
(pdf)
Number 3:
1. Overview of the study (pdf)
2. Violence against women - Summary (pdf)
3. Forms and consequences (pdf)
4. What works (pdf)
5. Un-met needs (pdf)
Number 2: 61st session of the UN General Assembly
Number 1: Millennium Development Goals: 2006 Progress Chart (pdf)
October
Number 1: The Millennium Development Goals Report (pdf)
September
Number 1: The Secretary-General's remarks at the 59th Annual DPI-NGO Conference (pdf)
July
Number 1: Europe's Governments are Failing their Global Poverty Commitments (pdf)
May
Number 4: Commission on Sustainable Development 14
Number 3: Water is Free Beverage
Number 2: “Never Speak with contempt of any nation, profession, or class of people..”
Number 1: The Moment of Truth for Darfur UNA-USA
April
Number 2: Vatican Nuncio at U.N. Urges 'People-centered' Migration Policies
Number 1: Letter to Kofi Annan - 12 April, 2006
March
Special Report Number 3: Financing for Development (Powerpoint doc)
Special Report Number 2: Water for Life - Freshwater is a Scarce Resource
Special Report Number 1: Refugees by Numbers
February
Special Report Number 3: The Post-Hong Kong Blues - Social and Economic Policy - Global Policy
Special Report Number 2: United Nations, New York
Special Report Number 1: NEWS IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH
Announcements:
December
Announcements 1: Farewell to Mr and Mrs Kofi Annan
November
Announcements 4: Should Darfur be Thankful?
Announcements 3: Perspective: World AIDS Day 2006
Announcements 2: Thanks to the Annan's...
Announcements 1: Creation of a new international agency for women
October
Announcements 2: 61st session of the UN General Assembly on item 51 (a): Macroeconomic policy questions: International trade and development (pdf)
Announcements 1: Mercy Global Concern: Alert (pdf)
September
Announcements 1: International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
June
Announcements 1: Statement: International civil society denounce UN meeting on AIDS as a failure
Announcements 2: UNAIDS wording frustrates Annan
Number 3 June: New, strengthened UN Human Rights Council holds first session on Monday
Number 4 June: Human Rights Council (pdf)
Number 5 June: Facts & Figures on HIV/AIDS (pdf)
May
Announcements 2: Save Leila From Execution
Announcements 1: The Temple of Understanding
April
Announcements 3: All Human Rights for All: 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Announcements 2: United Nations 60th General Assembly
Announcements 1: Iraqi women: Confused, maybe, but clear nevertheless
March
Announcements 3: Statement to the Final Session of the Commission on Human Rights...
Announcements 2: Exercising Power for Change
Announcements 1: Empowering women is key to development, Fréchette tells UN Commission
February
Announcements 6: Timorese Truth Commission Report Reveals Shocking Brutality, Calls for End to Impunity (pdf)
Announcements 5: Chapter VI: Systemic issues (pdf)
Announcements 4: Hails progress toward ending Female Genital Mutilation (pdf)
Announcements 3: NGO Declaration - Decade of Poverty: Ways Forward. . . (pdf)
Announcements 2: Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Practice
Announcements 1: Message for the International Day of Commemoration in the Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
Key Dates
United Nations Day - October 24 2006
2006: Coming Events at the UN and their major themes (pdf)
United Nations Observances (pdf)
News Briefs
February
News Brief Number 1: Significant UN Event
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