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Since the UN’s first international conference on women in 1975 and the  subsequent growth of the global women’s movement, women have used the UN as  a key advocacy space to advance global policy on women’s rights and to improve  the status of women in countries around the world.

The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Children 

It is estimated that worldwide some 15 million children have already lost one or more parents to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Apart from the devastating effects of bereavement, many orphaned children have to cope with the care of siblings while others are themselves infected by the virus which can be transmitted to them at their birth. In some parts of the Anglican Communion, the statistics are known and horrifying; in others the known numbers are small but the problems of combating ignorance and stigma are huge. In this newsletter, stories from many different Provinces of the Anglican Communion reveal the terrible disparity of provision for children affected by HIV/AIDS, but all tell of faithful work being done to protect and help them: education p

APJN strongly endorsed and supported the TEAM conference - Towards Effective Anglican Mission - by participating in the planning and sending representatives to the event held in Boksburg, South Africa in March, 2007, and is cooperating in the implementation of its recommendations, especially in the area of conflict transformation.

The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations (IASCER) met in Cairo, Egypt, from Wednesday, 5th to Monday, 10th December 2007

APJN has had as a priority of its concerns the reunification of the Korean Peninsula since its meeting in Seoul in 1998. The Anglican wide peace conference held in November 2008 was an outgrowth, in part, of APJN advocacy over the past decade

A Report to the Joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion and the Standing Committee on Ecumenics and Dialogue of the World Methodist Council