‘The Family – Source of Strength and Security for Today’s Social Challenges’ Conference

‘The Family – Source of Strength and Security for 

Today’s Social Challenges’ Conference

Co-sponsored by the NovæTerræ Foundation

 (Head, Luca Volonté) 

and the Centre Catholique d’Etudes de Genève

Conference convened in Room V – Palais des Nations, Geneva,

Geneva, 24 November 2014, 8.30 – 13.30.

REPORT BY DR. JOHN LYDON KCHS TREASURER OF WUCT/UMEC

CALL TO ORDER: General Moderator (9.00 – 9.05)

Head of NovæTerræ Foundation, Mr Luca Volonté)

OPENING REMARKS

Coordinators of the Forum of Catholic-Inspired NGOs based in Geneva

Msgr.  Robert  Vitillo, (on behalf of the Forum of Catholic-Inspired NGOs), Head of Caritas Internationalis Geneva Delegation

Msgr. Vitello suggested that this conference on ‘The Family – source of Strength and Security for Today’s Social Challenges’, hosted by the Caritas in Veritate Foundation, Geneva, links to several international meetings focused on the family, including the Panel on the Protection of the Family and its Members (which was the 27^th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council which took place in September 2014) and a Workshop on Migration and the Family (hosted by the International Organisation for Migration, in October 2014).

It also coincides with two key anniversaries of children and families.  These are:

i)                25^th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child;

ii)              20^th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family........

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