Mercy Global Concern - Archives 2009

Archived items are listed in descending chronological order.

Commissions for the Status of Women
The fifty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women will be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York from 2 to 13 March 2009.
Please click on the links below for further information and resources.
(web)
(pdf: Opening Statement )
(pdf: NGO Statement for GSW)
(pdf: Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS)
(pdf: Girls' right to education)
(pdf: Sharing responsibilities in the context of HIV/AIDS 1)
(pdf: Sharing responsibilities in the context of HIV/AIDS 2)
(pdf: UNAIDS)
(pdf: Agreed Conclusions for CSW53)

Submission and interventions at the UN
Action for Girls - July 2009 - Newsletter English (pdf) | Spanish (pdf)
WGG Recommendations on Girls Included in CSW 53 Agreed Conclusions
English (pdf) | Spanish (pdf)
Submission Number 6, November 2008
Submission Number 5, November 2008
Submission Number 4, November 2008
Submission Number 3, November 2008
Submission Number 2, November 2008
Submission Number 1, November 2008

Briefing Notes
February
Briefing Paper 1: Social Integration / Inclusion: Towards societies of Solidarity and Mutuality
March
Briefing Paper 2: International Women's Day, March 8th 2009 - Pause for thought
April
Briefing paper 1: The Durban review
Briefing paper 2: 15 Year Review of Violence Against Women
Briefing paper 3: General Assembly Holds Three Day Interactive Dialogue on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development
Briefing paper 4: The crisis and the G20 response
Briefing paper 5: An over view of the UN on Climate Change
May
Briefing paper 1: CSD - Africa
Briefing paper 2: Climate change
Briefing paper 3: Conservation of biological diversity
Briefing paper 4: Indigenous Peoples
Briefing paper 5: NGO Major Group
Briefing paper 6: Recognizing the disparate impact of climate change on women
June
Briefing Paper Number 1: Earth Day 2009
Briefing Paper Number 2: Climate Change Facts
Briefing Paper Number 3: The Carbon Footprint of War
Briefing Paper Number 4: Mr. Paul Ladd, UNDP-New York Headquarters
Briefing Paper Number 5: Risk and Poverty in a Changing World.
July
Briefing Paper Number 1:
Whatever happened five years after Beijing
Download Part A (pdf)
Climate Change Treaty
Download Part B (pdf)
August
General Assembly Holds Interactive Dialogue On Responsibility To Protect (pdf)
September
Connecting with MGC at the UN - What is the purpose of the UN?
UNIFEM
October
Women and Sexual Violence
November
Climate Change Resources
Poverty and Climate Change
December
The Gender Trap - Women, Violence and Poverty

Reports
November
UN for the Commission on Social Development
October
Half the Sky on the Girl child
The Girl Child - SG Report
September
Report Number 1: H.E. Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki Acceptance speech upon his election as President
Report Number 2: Items included in the provisional agenda of the sixty-fourth regular session of the General Assembly
Report Number 3: United Nations General Assembly opens on 15 September 2009
July
Report 1: Foreward to 2009 MDG Report
Report 2: MDG Report 2009
Report 3: Poverty Eradication and the MDGs
June
Report 1: Letter to President Garcia of Peru
Report 2: Violence against Women - Causes and Consequences
Report 3: Commission on Sustainable Development
February
Report 1: Millennium Development Report 2008
Report 2: Progress Report - region by region 2008
January
Report 1: Field update on Gaza from the Humanitarian Coordinator (pdf)
Report 2: MGC Reflection from intern, Cathy (pdf)

Special Reports
December
Carbon Markets and Financial Risk
September
Special Reports: 64th General Assembly
Luiz da Silva - President - Brazil (pdf)
Barack Obama - President - USA (pdf)
Colonel Al Qadhafi - African Union (pdf)
Gordan Brown - Prime Minister - UK and N. Ireland (pdf)
Jacob Zuma - President - South Africa (pdf)
Kevin Rudd - Prime Minister - Australia (pdf)
Raila Odinga - Prime Minister - Kenya (pdf)
John Key - Prime Minister - New Zealand (pdf)
July
Report 1: Wide-Ranging Proposals to Mitigate World Financial Crisis Adopted by Consensus at United Nations Conference in New York (pdf)
Report 2: Top officials converge at UN to tackle global economic crisis (pdf)
Report 3: Did you know that the World Food Programme feeds 20 million children every year? (pdf)
March
Report 1: Water for Life (pdf)
January
Report 1: State of the World's Children (pdf)
Report 2: Women and Climate Change (pdf)

Announcements
December
Why we need to “Seal the Deal!” on climate change
October
Seal the deal
The President of the General Assembly
September
Moral and Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change: Appeal to World Leaders
July
Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Practice
June
World Financial Crisis to be Address at the United Nations
May
Statement on the negotiations about the outcome of the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development
Poverty and the Climate Crisis on Friday May 8th
Message on the Occasion of World Press Freedom Day
Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the relationship between climate change and human rights
No Going Back - Letters to Pope Benedict XVI on the Holocaust, Jewish-Christian Relations & Israel
Febraury
At the Launch of the World Day of Social Justice (pdf)
Statement by the Cambodia Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (pdf)
UNODC Report on Human Trafficking Exposes Modern Form of Slavery
January
Announcement 1: Just Imagine if this girl were you (pdf)
Announcement 2: Campaigns and Initiatives (pdf)
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