The SSND participants to the CSW include (from left) Mount Mary College Professor Dawn Fell; students Myriem Bennani, Mollyrose Mahoney, Christine Behn, Cindy Juds, Bianca Iepure and Megan Lann, Sisters Eileen Reilly, SSND, and Ann Scholz, SSND; students Jennifer Treptow, Kate Calvano and Briony Zlomke and Sister Ethel Howley, SSND.

SSND delegation works with caucus on girls'
issues to include

         The members of the SSND delegation continued their hands-on involvement at the Commission on the Status of Women Wednesday as Mount Mary College student Megan Lann (right) briefed the Caucus on Girls' Issues and Concerns.
         Lann reported on the work and discussion from the previous day's NGO Coordinating Caucus, which included representatives from the many of the other working caucuses at the CSW.
         Sister Ann Scholz, SSND, who facilitated the meeting on Wednesday, reported that the Working Group on Girls (WWG) had finished a third draft of suggested revisions to the CSW draft outcome document.
          "We have been really surprised that so many other caucuses are also concerned that there was so little mention of girls and are interested in including language on girls in the document," Sister Ann said.
          The participants at the girls' issues caucus will bring the draft with their suggested revisions to government delegates who will influence or write the final outcome document.
          "We are going to do our best over the next two days to get it into as many delegations' hands as possible," Sister Ann said. "They will be negotiating on Friday."

An intern from Kenya with the World Youth Alliance (photo above left) discusses changes to the draft document with Mount Mary students Myriem Bennani (center) and Christine Behn (right). Sister Ann Scholz, SSND, (photo above right) explains ways to distribute the suggested changes to government delegates.

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