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United Nations Delegations Women's Club. Elise Andrianarivelo (Madagascar), President UNDWC; Nadia Shmigel, WFUWO representative to the UN; and UNWLA President Marianna Zajac. in New York. This event was sponsored by the United Nations Delegations Women’s Club and hosted by Dr. Sergeyeva. During the event, Sofia Zielyk de monstrated our art of pysanka writing to the inter national gathering. May 8, 2009. The World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations and the UNWLA co-hosted an informal gathering (at UNWLA headquarters in NYC) with Prof. Hanna Kapustyan, Ukrainian historian and author, in cooperation with Dr. Chrystyna Durbak (CEO, World Information Transfer, a not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization in General Consultative Status with the United Nations, promoting environmental health and literacy). On June 29, 2009, Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukraine’s First Lady, was presented a medal and papal award for her charitable work at a brief ceremony at the Ukrainian Institute of America. On the same day, I also attended Constitution Day celebrated at the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations at an event hosted by Ambassador Yuriy A Sergeyev. On December 7, 2009, Andriy Sadovy, the mayor of Lviv hosted a luncheon for a handful of community diaspora leaders, and I was invited. During this luncheon, I was able to unofficially intercede on behalf of the Lviv Regional Council of Soyuz Ukrainok Ukrainy and touch on administrative office rental issues. This was followed up with an email once the mayor returned to Ukraine. The issue was resolved in favor of Soyuz Ukrainok. March 20-21, 2010. UNWLA information table setup at the Federation of Ukrainian Student Organization of America Conference held at Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts. March 27, 2010. The World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations and the UNWLA held a joint presentation on the preservation of a healthy environment at St. George Parish School in New York City. United Nations During March 2009, the fifty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women was held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. UNWLA representatives were invited to attend parallel events or those activities organized outside the formal program of the Commission. All members were encouraged to attend. In 2010, the United Nations encouraged member organizations to disseminate information on issues of UN concern, such as trafficking of children and women, HIV/AIDS, migration, climate change, and human rights violations, the economic crisis and how it affects civil society organizations, and issues of equality of women, etc. The first such effort was made on March 27, 2010, by the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations and the UNWLA, which arranged a joint presentation on the preservation of a healthy environment. Moki Kokoris, a teacher of polar ecology in Ridgefield, Connecticut, is a United Nations Representative for WFUWO, a nongovernmental organization in consultative status with the Department of Public Information of the UN, and was the presenter for this event. She presented the topic to the students of the Ukrainian Saturday Schools of SUM (Spilka Ukrainskoii Molodi) and “Obyedynnia Ukraintsiv v Amerytsi Samopomich” in New York City. On November 12, 2010, Nadia Shmigel, NGO (nongovernmental organization) representative to the United Nations from WFUWO invited me and First VP Ulana Zinych to a meeting with the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations, Yuriy Sergeyev. The ambassador announced the establishment of UN Women, a UN entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women, noting that the Ukrainian XXIX Конвенція СУА 77 www.unwla.org
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