Anglican Youth Speak Out on Women Violence at U.N. Meeting
By Linda Zhang
Christian Post Contributor
Fri, Mar. 09 2007

A group of Anglican girl delegates urged the Anglican Communion to “raise every community’s awareness” of women’s and girls’ issues at a hallmark meeting which marked the first time in the history of the United Nations that individuals under the age of 18 were allowed to participate in formal meetings.

In a formal statement released this past weekend, the Anglican girls, aged 13 to 18, urged the Standing Committee of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) to work “at the village level” to improve the lives of girls.

As part of an Anglican delegation to the annual gathering of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 2007 (UNCSW) that began Feb. 26 and ends today, the girls learned about child trafficking and its connection to gender inequality in education and job opportunity; the violence girls suffer in areas of armed conflict; and the gender bias in media that weakens girls’ and women’s empowerment. the rest