Millennium Development Goals

PPSEAWA attendance at the UN DPI NGO Conference, 30 Aug - 1 Sep 2010
21 November 2010

Improving the health standards of the world’s poorest communities through the achievement of the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was the key focus of the 63rd Annual United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) Conference held in Melbourne from 30 August to 1 September 2010.

Hosted by the Australian Government, the UN DPI/ NGO Conference brought together over 1,000 delegates from 350 NGOs and 70 countries, to discuss the progress made and the challenges that lie ahead in achieving the MDGs by 2015.

UN Women in Transition. What Does This Mean for PPSEAWA?
16 November 2010

On July 2 the GA passed a resolution to create UN Women. In the months leading up to the resolution, international feminists became increasingly giddy as the culmination of their four year effort to create a bigger more effective UN agency for women grew closer. UN Women unites the four previous agencies working for women including UNIFEM, the entity most focused on country level programming. The transition is in process and UN Women will be officially fully operational by January 1, 2011.

PPSEAWA-USA Committed To Gender Equality
16 November 2010

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight targets established by world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 to address the world’s major development challenges by 2015. PPSEAWA-International has been actively working to raise awareness of the UN Millennium Development Goals since the International Conference in New Zealand in 2007. Millennium Development Goal Three (MDG 3): Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment guarantees that women have equal opportunities to make their lives, and the lives of their families better.

PPSEAWA International-Workshop and Council Meeting
1 August 2005

Welcoming remarks were presented by Dr. Viopapa Annandale, President of PPSEAWA International, followed by Honorable Fiame Mataafa, Minister of Education of Samoa, who is the daughter of our Fataui Mataafa. The keynote address was delivered by Tuala Tiresa Mialietoa, a patron of PPSEAWA Samoa. There were three US participants: Lillian Jasko, Ann Aurelius and myself.

57th Annual DPI/NGO Conference, United Nations
1 April 2005

The “Millennium Development Goals: Civil Society Takes Action Conference” was attended by many of our members while here for our PPSEAWA-USA Annual Meeting. The discussion focused on how civil society can become more active.

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