Anglican women witness to Communion's strength at UN meeting
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article31292
- Author
- Nunley, Jan (Janet Worth), 1954-
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2004 Easter
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2004 Easter
- Issue
- 113
- Page
- 23-25
- Notes
- "[M]ore than 50 Anglican women from 11 provinces of the Anglican Communion represented the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) at the 48th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) held in New York, 1-12 March [2004]. The group participated under the auspices of the Anglican Observer to the United Nations, Archdeacon Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa-Matalavea of Samoa. The UNCSW meeting examined two themes: `Men and boys in gender equity' and `Women's equal participation in conflict management, resolution and post-conflict peace building'." Representatives of the International Anglican Women's Network (founded in 1996) also participated in the meeting. In a statement issued after the meeting ended the delegates "challenged the ACC to work towards a 30 % representation of women in all decision-making bodies in the Anglican Communion". Phoebe Griswold said: "My frustration is that somehow the voices of women and their experience is seen as only belonging to the home and the power of women's voices to mend and heal the Anglican Communion is not taken seriously". Other participants included Rita Simeni, a delegate from Papua New Guinea who founded that province's Women in Ministry Program; Nema Aluku of Kenya, HIV/AIDS program coordinator for the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa; and Soledad Longid from the Philippine Episcopal Church.
- See also "Statement from the Anglican Consultative Council delegates' gathering a the 48th Session of the United Nations Commission on the status of women", p. 25.
- Subjects
- United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
- United Nations - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Anglican Observer at the United Nations
- Peace - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Women in the Anglican Communion
- Griswold, Phoebe W., 1940-
- Tuatagaloa-Matalavea, Taimalelagi Fagamalama, 1945-
- Simeni, Rita
- Aluku, Nema
- Longid, Soledad
- Anglican Consultative Council - Committees - Membership
- Location
- General Synod Archives