CELEBRATE WORLD FOOD DAY - October 16

        Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition

http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/worldfoodday/en/ 

October 11 – International Day of the Girl Child To Promote the Dignity and Rights of Girls

International Day of the Girl Child

This day, UN agencies have come together to focus on child marriage, which is a fundamental human rights violation and impacts all aspects of a girl's life. Globally, more than one in three young women aged 20-24 years were married before they reached age 18. One third of them entered into marriage before they turned 15.

Preventing child marriage will protect girls' rights and help reduce their risks of violence, early pregnancy, HIV infection, and maternal death and disability. 

For more information on UN Women's position to end child marriage, see: UN Women: approaches to end child marriage OR watch this film:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3gafLeQrQI

68th Session of the UN General Assembly - September 17 to October 2, 2013

Please view this link to see the information regarding this new session of the UN. http://www.un.org/en/ga/

80th Anniversary of the Catholic Worker Movement

Dorothy Day has been a hero of mine for many years. So I am taking this occasion to honor her and the Catholic Worker Movement. As the UN strives to do justice, here are people who make real the living for justice. 

Meet Dorothy Day in this video.

Sustainable Development

Many UN working committees have intensified efforts to shape Sustainable Development Goals for 2015 and  beyond, that will focus on ending poverty  with sustainable development at its core. This 10-minute YouTube video proposes ways that these goals can be integrated into our lives. 

World Water Week in Stockholm

World Water Week in Stockholm, September 1 - 6, is the leading annual global event for concretely addressing the planet’s water issues and related concerns of international development. The Week attracts over 2,500 participants and 200 collaborating organisations from around 130 countries all over the world.

Leaders and experts from the world’s scientific, business, government and civic communities convene in Stockholm to exchange views, experiences and shape joint solutions to global water challenges. Functioning as an open and dynamic platform, the World Water Week enables participants to build capacity, form partnerships and review implementation, thereby advancing the world’s water, environment, health, livelihood and poverty reduction agendas.

Watch this animated film on "Nature in Water Security", to further understand the issues World Water Week is addressing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1QfZs0W8I8