Is the UN Worth It?

by Peter W. Pruyn

From March 11–14, 2024 I attended my first Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) at the UN in New York City. I attended 14 session in total, which I have listed below.  Some were held in small-to-medium-sized conference rooms with a few dozen participants; others were held in the main UN General Assembly Hall with...

CSW68: Inspiring and Dispiriting Views from a First-Time Delegate

by Carol Harbers, AWC Hamburg

The 68^th annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was a first for me – and most certainly not my last. As a college student, I was greatly impacted by the second feminist movement that hit the United States in the early seventies, being totally stunned when I became aware of...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Otávio Roth

by Karen Castellon, FAUSA, AWC Berlin, AWAquitaine

We visited Otávio Roth’s xylographs of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an art installation on permanent exhibit at the UN Headquarters in NYC. 

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. The Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on...