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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 these intractable problems. So, to continue the process of eradicating these endemic situations, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a measure to achieve them by 2030. (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. (more…)

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:

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