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Mercy Global Concern
 
"Promoting Human Solidarity and Care for Earth"
Representing Mercy International Association at the United Nations.
In continuing to promote the vision of Catherine McAuley, the
Sisters of Mercy established Mercy Global concern (MGC) in 1998,
in order to bring the Mercy spirit to the United Nations (UN),
the one forum in the world where all nations have the potential
to meet as equals. MGC is the mechanism by which all those associated
with the Sisters of Mercy may interact with the UN system. At
the UN, Sisters of Mercy can advocate for the less privileged
and make explicit preferential options within a huge network
of international bodies.
 Director: Deirdre Mullan rsm
777 United Nations Plaza 6th Floor - New York, NY 10017
USA
Ph: +1 646 227 1878 Fax: +1 646 227 1879
Email: mercyun@aol.com
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Commissions
Commission on Social Development
Climate Change: The United Nations and the World at Work;
February 11-12, 2008 – United Nations Headquarters.
Commission for the Status of Women
Commission on the Status of Women which begins Next week in NY. February 26 - March 7, 2008 The Theme this year is:
Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
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Bridging The Gap between Policy and Practice
October 13-24, 2008
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Important days in the UN
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Briefing Notes
Briefing Paper Number 1, April 2008
Addressing General Assembly, Pope stresses major UN role on raft of issues
Pope Benedict XVI today stressed the United Nations’ major role in seeking a better world as he highlighted, during an address to the General Assembly, the need to protect human rights, ensure development, security and reduce local and global inequalities.
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Briefing Paper Number 2, April 2008
Ban Ki-moon welcomes Pope Benedict, stressing common mission
Welcoming a guest he invited to the United Nations a year ago, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed to Pope Benedict XVI today the fundamental goals that unite the world Organization and the Roman Catholic Church.
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Briefing Paper Number 3, April 2008
Pope Benedict comes to the House of all Nations
On Friday April 18th , 2007 I was lucky to get one of the 25 tickets available to non- Governmental Organizations to be present for the address of Pope Benedict to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
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Reports
Report Number 1, May 2008:
Georgian Court University Student reflects on her experience at the UN for the Commission on Sustainable Development.
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Special Reports
May 2008 Report Number 1:
This UN Secretary General report “reviews the progress made in implementing the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the 2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS. The findings are based primarily on the reports of 147 Member States on their national progress in the response to HIV.”
The national reports are available on the ICASO (www.icaso.org) and UNAIDS (www.unaids.org) websites. The reports were submitted to UNAIDS by January 31, 2008 and were intended to reflect a review of the progress made in achieving the targets set out in the Declaration of Commitment and the Political Declaration.
Key recommendations in the report include the need for national leadership, sustainability of the response, scaling up prevention in countries with prevalence rate higher than 15%, effective response in concentrated epidemics for populations most at risk, sustained treatment scale-up and strengthening measures to address HIV/TB co-infection, and addressing the role of gender inequities in the epidemic.
The report was released on April 29 and it is available in six languages here.
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Announcements
Announcement Number 2, April 2008:
Follow-up International Conference on Financing for
Development to Review the Implementation of the
Monterrey Consensus
Recalling further its resolution 60/265 of 30 June 2006 on the follow-up to the development outcome of the 2005 World Summit, including the Millennium Development Goals and the other internationally agreed development goals, and its resolution 61/16 of 20 November 2006 on the strengthening of the Economic and Social Council.
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Announcement Number 1, April 2008:
Special High-level Meeting of the Economic and Social Council
With the Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
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Key Dates
United Nations Observances (pdf) |
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Submission and interventions at the UN
Submission Number 2, January 2007
We, the above named NonGovernmental Organizations in consultative status with ECOSOC, reaffirm and call attention to the inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of the girl child.
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Submission Number 1, January 2007
We NGOs work to protect the human rights of women and girls, specifically by attempting to eradicate all forms of gender based
violence, from rape, prostitution, and sexual harassment, to battering, female genital mutilation, and femicide.
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