Fr. Robertus Mirsel, SVD, the Executive Co-director, completed his term in in New York Office. on 31 May 2020. He joined the Executive team in January 2015 and worked tirelessly on advocacy actions at UN, [read…]
Dear Readers, Happy Easter and welcome to the 82nd edition of VNL 2020. We begin our stories in this edition with the United Nations 58th Commission on Social Development taking place in New York in [read…]
Dear Readers, Welcome to the 81st edition of VNL 2019 which covers two UN events– the 25th Conference on Climate Change (COP25) in Madrid, 2-13 December 2019 and High level Event on the closing of [read…]
Side Event during 58th Session of the Commission for Social Development VIVAT International in New York marked the 20th Anniversary with a side event, “Migration and Homelessness: Hope from the Margins” on 18 February 2020 [read…]
CSocD58 took place from 10 to 19 February 2020, at the UN Headquarters in New York and deliberated on the priority theme, “Affordable housing and social protection systems for all to address homelessness”. As we [read…]
Every year on February 8, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Josephine Bakhita. The Unions of Superiors and Superiors General of Religious Institutes have set this day as the Day of Prayer and [read…]
The COP25 climate negotiations concluded on 15th December afternoon, 48 hours after the originally scheduled time. There were negotiations, closed door deliberations between interest groups. Likewise, civil society groups constantly engaged in advocacy and making [read…]
From 7 – 12 October 2019, over 40 participants gathered in Dili, the capital of East Timor (officially: Democratic Republic of Timor Leste), to attend the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) workshop organized by VIVAT International. [read…]
From 25 – 27 September 2019, 36 people participated the JPIC and Mining Seminar organized in Rome. They are the JPIC promotors from different Catholic religious congregations and organizations, who work to protect the rights [read…]
Dear readers, Welcome to the 80th Edition of VIVAT Newsletter. The dominant theme of this issue is the environment and other related issues such as climate change, Climate Action Summit, Climate Strike, Synod of the [read…]
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