Attached is the Newsletter, New Frontiers – A quarterly newsletter for global education and advocacy – from the JPIC Office, Rome/ UN-NGO Office, New York.
“This edition covers a 6-month period of JPIC and UN-NGO activity.
First is an overview of the international JPIC meeting expressed in the closing remarks of Daphne Sequeira, RSCJ, on behalf of the Central Team. Next, is an account describing how the country of Italy is responding to the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).
Then, there are several reports of the various involvements at the UN through the NGO office such as the High Level Political Forum, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the visitors to the UN and the work of the interns.
There is an account of the Laudato Si conference that took place at The Vatican and a more recent conference on Religions and SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), some resources for your interest and lastly, a beautiful tribute to the late Kofi Annan (former Secretary General of the UN) written by Solome Najjuka, RSCJ.”
(Sheila Smith, RSCJ, Anne Corry, RSCJ)