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Jan 23, 2015 | EDOT Staff

Local College Student Heads to UN Seeks Input from Fellow Episcopalians

 

Hollee Martinez was selected by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori to join 19 other representatives of The Episcopal Church at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) in New York City, March 9-20, 2015.

 

Delegates will attend the official UNCSW proceedings and will represent The Episcopal Church/Anglican Communion in their advocacy at the UN, including joint advocacy with the group, Ecumenical Women. Martinez will represent Province VII, which includes the Diocese of Texas and her home church, St. Christopher’s, League City.  Martinez seeks input from members of the Diocese in order to prepare for her time in New York. Please send thoughts and comments to .

 

A college sophomore, Martinez entered nursing school in response to a desire to serve in the foreign mission field, specifically in the area of women's health. As she discerned this call, Martinez also familiarized herself with issues of health and human rights violations against women worldwide. "I want to learn from the women who attend this meeting,” she said, adding, “I want to hear their stories, to see Christ in them, and how I can allow Christ to work through me . . . I hope to learn more about what it is like to be a woman in different parts of the world, and in what ways I can love them through my work."

 

The 2015 UNCSW will review the progress made in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Program for Action, 20 years after its adoption at the 4th World Conference for Women. The Commission on the Status of Women is a functional commission of the UN's Economic and Social Council. The Commission was established June 21, 1946 with the aim to prepare recommendations and reports to the Council on promoting women's rights in political, economic, civil, social and educational fields.

  

Focus Areas for the Anglican/Episcopal Delegation: 

Violence

Education and training

Women and health

Women and power/Decision-making

 

Further information: 

unwomen.org

http://beijing20.unwomen.org/en

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/