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Volume 9 Issue 2 April
2008
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The April issue of the
Shalom UN–NGO Newsletter
offers
interesting articles about School Sisters of No tre
Dame and their commitment to justice, peace, and integrity of
creation. Click read more in Highlights for individual articles in
Adobe format or on Deutsch,
English,
Español,
Polski,
Português for the complete newsletter.
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Reflections on Our Call to Solidarity . . .
When you consider solidarity, consider the God who is
eternal love becoming one of us.
Read more . . .
Solidarity in Crisis and in Hope by S. Roxanne
Schares
 Peoples
throughout the world have followed closely the events in Kenya
during the last few months . . . the post-election crisis caused
untold suffering to thousands of people. Everyone in Kenya has been
affected in some way. School Sisters of Notre Dame around the world
were also deeply affected.
Read more . . . .
European Shalom Clubs by S. Margrit Hopfler
Europe has two new Shalom Clubs, one in Munich and
one in Westphalia. Both were started after a student and a teacher
from each school participated in the UN’s 51st Session of the
Commission on the Status of Women in February 2007.
Read more . . .
Full Employment and Decent Work for All by S.
Ann Scholz
Catholic NGOs played a leading role in the recently
completed meeting of the UN Commission for Social Development. The
46th session of the Commission focused on the formulation of policy
for “Promoting Full Employment & Decent Work for All.”
Read more . . .
SSND Delegates Advocate for Girls by Julie
Gilberto-Brady, Communications Coordinator, NAMA
 Students
from Mount Mary College in Milwaukee joined the SSND delegation to
the 52nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
February 25 to March 7, 2008. They worked along side other SSND
delegates to ensure that the Commission adequately addressed the
needs and concerns of the most vulnerable women and girls.
Read more . . .
Opportunities to Act
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Global Action Week for
Education for All Week—April 21-27 2008—is part of a world
wide campaign to raise awareness of the importance of quality
education for all people.
The fourth annual
Walk the World
to fight world hunger will take place
June 1, 2008. It’s not to soon to start planning.
World Environment Day,
commemorated each year on June 5, is a time to seriously examine the
state of the environment and to consider the actions each of us and
each of our communities and countries must take to preserve all of
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07 May 2008
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