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| Millenium Development Goals |
| Convener: Frances Thibodeau, OP (Roman) |
End Poverty 2015
UN Cyber School Bus
UN’s Stand Up and Take Action Campaign
Catholic Charities Campaign to Reduce Poverty in America
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Awareness |
Involvement |
Leadership |
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Identify a lead person for the MDG issue group |
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Invite congregations and provinces to membership in group through story on www.domlife.org |
“Call to Justice” will be on Domlife.org by 8/1/09 |
Invite justice promoters to become familiar with these sites and to make their congregations aware of them |
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Millennium Development Goals |
Invite sisters and others with whom we work to select one goal and explore it domestically and globally |
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Link congregational mission statements with MDGs |
Invite justice promoters to use community listservs, websites, meetings, etc. to promote “infusion” of MDGs into what sisters are already doing; ask promoters to be intentional about finding links between current justice actions and MDGs, encouraging sisters to perceive the global dimension to their local action |
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Reread Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Catholic social teaching documents, etc. |
Cite relevant texts from these documents in brief informative passages about the MDGs using the justice page of www.domlife.org |
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UN conferences that touch on some aspect of the MDGs: www.un.org and Margaret’s UN reports on www.domlife.org
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Promote letter-writing to elected officials during these conferences to remind officials of their stated commitment to implement the MDGs |
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Urge participation in this campaign by congregations and groups with whom we work |
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Spread awareness of this forum as an complement to meetings of the G-8 or G-20 |
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Catholic Charities Campaign to Reduce Poverty in America |
Add the global dimension of the MDGs to the promotion of this campaign whenever possible |
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