RomeMUN NEWS - 10th of March

International Women's Day at the RomeMUN

As you already know, dear delegates, and as you must know, those of you who didn't join us this year,  RomeMUN celebrated the International Women's Day with a workshop on women's rights, chaired by Sharon Ketchum- Public Affairs officer of the Embassy of the United States of America; Eve Crowley- Deputy Director of the Gender Division , Equity and Rural Employment of FAO and Clare Bishop-Sambrook, IFAD- consultant on gender issues.

The meeting focused on the discrimination that women face in terms of access, ownership and management land rights, detailed the third Millennium Development Goal which targets gender equality and women's empowerment.

Eve Crowley told the delegates from the UNHRC committee  "giving women access to land is an investment in humanity and dignity  dignity" and  "access to land is at the very root of their histories. It is critical resource for humanity" 

The workshop was also an extremely good opportunity for showing an interesting video produced by USAID:

Women's Land Rights: A Ripple Effect

We were happy to read on the Twitter account of the U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies for Food & Agriculture (USUN Rome)  how pleased were the speakers to hear the delegates' reaction:

The workshop was part of the second day of the Rome Model United Nations conference.

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RomeMUN 2013- 1200 young people to act as world leaders

Rome (March 7, 2013)-- 1,200 young people from all over the world will assume the role of the UN member states representatives to discuss issues of international importance at the fourth edition of Rome Model United Nations (RomeMUN), opening today in the Plenary Hall of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The participants, coming from 108 different countries, will debate topics like the fight against hunger and poverty, women's rights, issues related to sustainable development and the right to basic education for all and will have the opportunity to meet leading experts of the national and international panorama: Corrado Clini, Environment Minister in the Monti cabinet, Eve Crowley, FAO Deputy Director General for Gender, Equity and Rural Employment, Stefano Vella, Director of Department of Medicine Institute of Health, Luis Jimenez-McInnis, Special Adviser to IFAD President, and Staffan de Mistura, Under-Secretary of State in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The event is sponsored by the UN agencies in the agro-food pole in Rome: FAO, IFAD and the World Food Programme, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Representation of the European Commission in Italy, some Italian regions, and was made possible thanks to the invaluable contribution of many private entities.

The Giovani nel Mondo Association, together with other sponsors like Education First, Bonduelle, Giorgio Tesi Vivai and Hotel Villa Mercede, put at stake 100 scholarships to facilitate the participation of young people with great resumes, who otherwise would not have been able to attend the event.

This year's edition is going to evolve around the Millennium  Development Goals, the eight international development targets aimed at encouraging development by improving social and economic conditions in the world's poorest countries.

About half of the participants are from abroad (from Afghanistan to Egypt, Ghana, Brazil, Uzbekistan and Nicaragua) and are united in their desire to be the leading actors of RomeMUN, experience the simulation to the full, reach agreements and solutions to problems that the big actors of the international diplomacy struggle to solve, learn each other, make friends, share experiences and dreams.

The delegates' activity, the workshops and the debates will be described and documented by other young students who will assume the role of journalists and reproduce the work of some major international networks as CNN, BBC, RaiNews, Al Jazeera, France 24, Russia Today.

Summary of the program and conference venues:

7 March - from 9.00 to 17.30 FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla

8 March - from 9.30 to 19.00 Luiss, Center of American Studies, Hall of the Parliamentary Groups

9 March - from 9.30 to 19.00 Luiss Guido Carli, Viale Romania 32

10 March - from 9.30 to 19.00 Luiss Guido Carli, Viale Romania 32

11 March - from 9.00 to 13.30 Eataly, Piazzale XII ottobre 1492

Giovani nel Mondo Press Office