07
NOV
2016
Loretto at the UN has joined the Working Group on Food and Hunger!
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I think it’s fair to say that the Loretto Community carries a strong passion for food justice, migrant rights, the envirnoment, gender equity, and more. Amazingly, our advocacy work here at the United Nations covers all of those areas. Luckily for me, I work under an incr
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OCT
2016
White Helmets Movie Review
On the evening of September 28th, the US Mission to the United Nations and the U.K. Mission to the United Nations hosted a screening of the compelling, short documentary, “White Helmets.” In short, the documentary, set in Aleppo, Syria in early 2016, highlights the lives o
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OCT
2015
The Migration-Development Debate: A Hot Topic from New York to Istanbul
In mid October, many United Nations NGO representatives converged on Istanbul, Turkey for the Global Forum for Migration and Development (GFMD). The forum, which began in 2007, aims to create a space for governments to engage with each other and with representatives of civil society i
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DEC
2013
The Art of Peace at the United Nations
The United Nations is charged with global peacekeeping and peace building efforts, and the artwork on the grounds and within the complex reflects the spirit of that immense undertaking. In our third joint peace blog in honor of the International Day of Peace, Loretto at the UN and the
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