The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) hosted its yearly Youth Forum, a three-day conference joined by hundreds of young people ready to discuss issues pertaining to climate change, youth inclusion in multilateralism, and AI, among other topics.

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held its 68th session at the United Nations Headquarters and the IYc team was there every day throughout the two weeks of programming! We attended tens of events, raised questions during Q&A sessions, and interacted with panelists and civil society representatives to share the pro-life and pro-family message.

Daniela García, IYc Director, joined EWTN, a global Catholic television program, to talk about IYc, and to applaud young people who dare to stand up for life and family despite an increasingly hostile social environment for conservatives.

The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) delivered a statement at an informal consultation meeting on the UN Pact of the Future and flagged that the 20-page draft lacks any reference to the family.

The Executive Board of UN Women held several plenary meetings and informal consultations at the UN headquarters throughout the week. They went over reports, assessed organizational progress, and offered member states the chance to make statements and ask questions related to women's empowerment and gender equality.

Let’s talk about UNFPA- a UN agency that works to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) around the word. UNFPA sees abortion as necessary health care and a human right to which all women are entitled to.

On Monday, the UN Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian Committee offered civil society organizations the chance to come before the committee and deliver statements. C-Fam, one of the few conservative civil society organizations at the UN, took the floor to warn against the dangers of using “misinformation” as an excuse to silence conservative speech.

For those unaware, UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and works to improve education systems worldwide through multilateral cooperation. Improving education systems is an incredibly challenging task even for a single country, let alone the whole world.