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US Ambassador, Ellen Sauerbrey Visits The Howard Center To Speak on
UN Family Policy
On
Friday, January 21, Ellen Sauerbrey, US Ambassador and
Representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, will be
visiting the Howard Center. She will be making a presentation to a
lunch gathering on the importance of Family Policy at the United
Nations. Larry Jacobs, vice-president of The Howard Center For
Family, Religion and Society, remarked about Mrs. Sauerbrey, “We are
privileged to be able to welcome to Rockford such a close ally and
friend of the family. Ellen has been engaging the UN on a host of
issues that impact families, such as marriage, the role of
motherhood, children’s rights and the rights of adolescents to
access abortion.”
At
the UN, Mrs. Sauerbrey works to improve the social, economic and
political status of women around the world while promoting the
importance of human life, the natural family, traditional marriage
and the significant role of parents. She was appointed in 2003 by
President Bush as Ambassador to the UN and has also represented the
United States at the UN Commission on Human Rights (2001) and served
on delegations to the 2002 and 2003 sessions of the UN General
Assembly.
She
also was a convening session speaker at the 2004 World Congress of
Families III in Mexico City. Her remarks on “UN and Family Policy”
are available online at:
www.worldcongress.org/wcf3_spkrs/wcf3_sauerbrey.htm .
If
you are interested in conducting an interview with Ellen Sauerbrey
during her visit to The Howard Center, please contact Larry Jacobs,
815-964-5819. |