From Chicago-
Barrington resident Ellen Birkett Lindeen says she
plans to promote women's education opportunities when she arrives in New
York this week as a delegate at the 64th annual United Nations
Commission on the Status of Women.
"I'm thrilled that (I'm representing) not
only the province, not only the diocese of Chicago, but I'm bringing
Barrington to the U.N.," said Lindeen, 65, a longtime member at St.
Michael's Episcopal Church in the village.
Lindeen will be part of an international
contingent for the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women running from
March 9 to 20. The commission is the main global intergovernmental body
dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of
women.
This year's session at U.N.
headquarters in New York has added significance with the silver
anniversary recognition of the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women and
the adoption of the Beijing declaration where Hillary Clinton famously
said: "Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human
rights."
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