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Catholic Schools Week 2009: Students to celebrate service during statewide gathering
During any given week you’ll find Catholic school students visiting nursing homes, tutoring youngsters or serving meals at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul dining room.
What began as a requirement for Catholic school students has quickly become a way of life, school administrators say.
Catholic Schools Week, an annual event celebrating faith and education, reflects that commitment to service in this year’s theme, “Catholic Schools Celebrate Service.” The weeklong celebration takes place Jan. 25-31.
“If we work with them when they enter our schools, it often makes a huge difference in them understanding service,” said MaryBeth Mueller, superintendent of Catholic schools for the diocese.
In addition to a week filled with activities for students, their families and educators at their respective schools, there is also a diocesan-wide spelling bee, a Mass at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral followed by a rally at the state Capitol.
More: www.catholicsun.org
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UN Women, the PBSO and UNEP will be hosting an official CSW side event on gender equality, natural resource management and peacebuilding.
March 8 2012, 11:30am-12:45pm. UN North Lawn Building, Conference Room A
Please contact Sharon Fleming at UN Women to RSVP. sharon.fleming@unwomen.org
From collecting water and gathering wood for fuel, to participating in farming, and to mining extractive resources, natural resources are critical for rural women’s and their families’ livelihoods. At the same time, rural women hold an abundance of knowledge about these resources and play a crucial role in managing them. Yet few have legally recognized rights. This situation generally worsens in conflicts environments through insecurity, migration and violence. Despite this, women’s engagement in community decision-making, in the management of lands and finances, and a variety of other roles can increase, with a “roll-back” in these opportunities post-conflict. Exploring an under-researched area, the panel brings together three global experts to discuss the inter-linkages between peacebuilding, natural resource management and gender equality. Panelists will examine how these areas inter-relate and will explore the impact of women’s participation in natural resource management on generating and maintaining social equality and stability.
Hosted by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), the discussion will be moderated by Henk-Jan Brinkman, Chief of the Policy, Planning and Application Branch in the Peacebuilding Support Office. Panelists are –
Dr. Mishkat Al Moumin was Iraq’s Minister of the Environment in the government of 2004-2005, where she designed the Ministry and developed a new environmental law. She is currently a scholar teaching and researching environmental policies in developing countries and research interest focuses on the security implications of environmental policies.
Carl Bruch is a Senior Attorney and Co-Director of International Programs at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI). He has helped countries and organizations throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe develop and strengthen their environmental laws, improve institutions, and build capacity. He is currently coordinating a global initiative with UNEP, the University of Tokyo, and McGill University to examine experiences in managing natural resources to support post-conflict peacebuilding.
Rachael Knight is an attorney with expertise in the areas of land tenure security, access to justice, and legal empowerment of the poor. She is currently the director of Namati's Community Land Protection Program, which works to support rural communities to seek documentation for their customary land claims in Uganda, Liberia and Mozambique.
photo credit: UNICEF/LeMoyne
Photos: J.D. Long-García/CATHOLIC SUN
Catholic Schools Week 2009: Students to celebrate service during statewide gathering
During any given week you’ll find Catholic school students visiting nursing homes, tutoring youngsters or serving meals at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul dining room.
What began as a requirement for Catholic school students has quickly become a way of life, school administrators say.
Catholic Schools Week, an annual event celebrating faith and education, reflects that commitment to service in this year’s theme, “Catholic Schools Celebrate Service.” The weeklong celebration takes place Jan. 25-31.
“If we work with them when they enter our schools, it often makes a huge difference in them understanding service,” said MaryBeth Mueller, superintendent of Catholic schools for the diocese.
In addition to a week filled with activities for students, their families and educators at their respective schools, there is also a diocesan-wide spelling bee, a Mass at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral followed by a rally at the state Capitol.
More: www.catholicsun.org
ORDERING INFORMATION
Looking for a glossy/matte copy of this photo? Please call 602-354-2132 or send an e-mail for ordering information. Please note the photo's title when ordering. Download the order form here.
Copyright 2006-2009 The Catholic Sun. All rights reserved. This photo and all photos on this Web site credited to The Catholic Sun are provided for personal use only and may not be published, broadcasted, transmitted or sold without the expressed consent of The Catholic Sun.
On 6 March, Karama and Equality Now presented Religion, Revolution & the Rights of Women in the Arab Uprisings, during the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The panel featured leading women activists from Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen, who held a dialogue on what women hoped for, what they got, and where they will go from here.
Photo: Suzanna Finley