Report on the Forum on Financing for Development to Fund the Sustainable Development Goals By: Sr. Marianne Sennick In 2000, the UN adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to eliminate the pervasive issues of poverty, illiteracy, illness, and lack of a decent standard of living. The MDGs were supposed to be a means of tackling… Read more »
By: Sr. Barbara Bozak More than 1,000 indigenous individuals from around the globe gathered with government representatives, experts, and others, at the United Nations in New York, April 22 – May 3, 2019, for the 18th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
This letter is written by the four Sisters of St. Joseph from Latin America who participated in the 57th Session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD), in February. Hear directly from the sisters of what this event meant to them: