Virtual Event: Domestic Violence: Gender-based Violence & Degradation of our Common Home
Please join the Maryknoll Sisters at the UN for a virtual event featuring Maryknoll Sister Pat Ryan and her colleague, Yolanda Flores Montoro, on Monday, March 15 at 4:00 p.m. ET.
Here is the invitation:
Mercy International Association, the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, UNANIMA International, and the Society of the Sacred Heart, cordially invite you to a parallel event at the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65) virtual gathering, “Domestic Violence: Gender-based Violence & Degradation of our Common Home,” which will be hosted on the NGO CSW65 Virtual Platform on Monday, 15 March, 2021, 4:00-6:00 pm (New York time). The event aims to highlight the parallels between gender-based violence (with a special focus on domestic and family violence) and violence against Earth.
Please register here for a profile on the NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum platform to attend the event for free, and then you can click “Add to My Agenda” on our event page. After you register for a profile, access information will be emailed to you.
Speakers:
- Louise Parinjo – Coordinator, Mercy Works PNG, Mt. Hagen
- Ana Siufi, rsm – Justice Advocate, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
- Yolanda Flores Montoro – Educational Promoter, Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente
- Pat Ryan, MM – President, Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente
- Jocelyn Bignold – CEO, McAuley Community Services for Women
- Representative of Australian Government (TBC)
Moderator: Angela Reed, rsm PhD – Head of Mercy International Association: Mercy Global Action