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Anglican women have engaged with the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) since 1985 when the Anglican Consultative Council was first granted official non-governmental status with ECOSOC, the UN Economic and Social Council.

This year’s 53rd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was focused on the priority theme of the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS.

Five hundred representatives from 370 million indigenous peoples from over 72 countries around the world met in New York for the eleventh session ofthe Permanent Forum of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations. Comprising representation from at least 5000 distinct peoples,

Resolutions from the Lambeth Conferences 1978-2009 and Resolutions and other Documents from the ACC-1 through ACC-14

On Tuesday, 22 February, 2011, the 55th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women will commence with the Opening Plenary Session.

From March 1-12 2010, 93 Anglican Women delegates from 23 Provinces of the Anglican Communion are converging at the United Nations as a united voice first and foremost to declare that gender is relational, that is why God made us male and female.

"In sub-Saharan Africa women constitute between 60 and 80 percent of the labour for food production, both for household consumption and for sale.

We, as Anglicans, must respond to our own challenges within the Communion in the years ahead Yet we are resilient enough, as people of faith, to meet those challenges together, while engaging the urgent and dangerous problems facing the world.

In 1966, the UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights established the right to water as a human right in Articles 11 and 12.

The earth's climate has changed throughout history, sometimes drastically.