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SustainUS's 1st Delegation to the UN Comission on the Status of Women

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For the first time, SustainUS has a youth delegation to the fifty-fourth U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) this week. The delegates will travel to New York City on March 1 to represent SustainUS and U.S. youth at CSW. The Commission is dedicated to promoting gender equality by identifying challenges and establishing standards for the social, economic, political, and civil rights of women. This year, the Commission will convene for a fifteen-year review of the implementation Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Member states and non-government representatives, including the SustainUS delegation, will share and evaluate experiences, lessons, and best practices, as well as identify key goals for further advancement of women.

More information about the delegation, including Agent of Change profiles and contact information, click 'Read More' below and download the press release, here: SustainUS Sends First Delegation to U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (February 23, 2010).

Find regular updates on SustainUS.org/blog and the Commission via blog at http://www.itsgettinghotinhere.org and via Twitter @SustainUSAgents.


This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. was an Agent of Change at CSD 15, CSocD 46, 47 and 48, where he was Delegation Leader. Bob has been a social justice and social development activist for seven years. In addition to UN activism, he has focused on slum development research in Mumbai and Beijing, activist-organizing in Canada and the Northeastern U.S., and sociopolitical journalism in Pennsylvania. Feel free to reach out to him for any questions about SustainUS or the Agents of Change program!

Odette Mucha is a graduate student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she is pursuing a master’s degree with a focus on International Environmental Policy. Odette began her work as an environmental advocate as a college student at Cornell University where she fought to improve the sustainability of both campus and large corporations. She then worked as a community organizer for Green Corps and ran several environmental campaigns in Knoxville, TN, Miami and Pensacola FL, and Madison, WI. She also served as a media spokesperson for the Sierra Club’s national headquarters, and has worked on the policies surrounding climate change for both Oxfam America and Ceres. She was also a SustainUS Agent of change to COP-15 in Copenhagen.

Matt Maiorana is originally from Detroit, Michigan, and is currently working towards a degree in Human Ecology at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Following his passion for the environment, Matt has been deeply involved with the youth climate movement at the local, regional, national, and international levels. In his role as the SustainUS Policy Co-Coordinator, Matt attended the 2007-2009 UN Climate Negotiations and the 2008 Commission for Social Development in New York. Molding his studies around his interests, he has become increasingly involved with international negotiations, developing an independent study which brought him to the Biosafety Protocol negotiations at the Convention on Biological Diversity in Germany. When not running from meeting to meeting, Matt enjoys backpacking and other activities that get him closer to trees.

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