21
DEC
2016
Committee on Migration Position Paper on Migrant and Children Refugees
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Loretto Volunteer, Ariana Alvarez, represents Loretto on the NGO Committee on Migration. Specifically, Ariana sits on the Subcommittee for Migrant and Children Refugees. The subcommittee had been diligently working on the developing of a position paper to be presented at the Global Fo
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DEC
2016
My Personal Connection to International Migrants Day
by Ariana Alvarez
December 18th is International Migrants Day! And I am proud to say I was raised by two migrants. My parents, Rigoberto and Josefina, came from a small ranch in Jalisco, Mexico. A small, simple ranch that I was blessed with the opportunity of visiting every summer growing up. Getting t
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NOV
2016
Loretto at the UN has joined the Working Group on Food and Hunger!
by Ariana Alvarez
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
by Ariana Alvarez
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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Loretto at the United Nations educates future global citizens, advocates on the international level for the needs of our constituents, and promotes climate justice.