NGO office page

Welcome to all in the Sacred Heart family – religious, students and faculties, coworkers and friends. This page offers you information on our presence at the UN as a non-governmental organization (NGO), associated with the Department of Public Information (DPI) of the United Nations, and the work done in the NGO Office.

Pause for peace

Prayer for International Women’s Day

Human trafficking constitutes an especially heinous form of violence against women. A prayer service, prepared by the JPIC Anti-Trafficking Working Group, is now available in multiple languages.

Annual days and weeks

09 August: International Day of the World's Indigenous People

26 June: International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

20 June: World Refugee Day

05 June: World Environment Day

04 June: International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

Actions for justice

EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010

Education for All (EFA) is focused on the provision of quality basic education to all children, young persons and adults. The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010: Reaching the marginalized documents both the progress made and the challenges ahead in five comprehensive chapters.

Conferences and meetings

Annual DPI/NGO Conference 2010 in Melbourne, Australia

In less than a month the annual DPI/NGO Conference will take place under the title Advance Global Health: Achieve the MDGs. After Paris (2008) and Mexico City (2009), it is now Melbourne, Australia, which will host this premier NGO event. From 30 August to 1 September, hundreds of participants will gather to learn, network and exchange views and ideas on global health issues.

RSCJ at the UN

Newsletter Issue 2

Welcome to the second Newsletter of the Society of the Sacred Heart at the United Nations. To read more please click here.