Cecile Meijer

I t was a rainy Thursday in Manhattan in mid-May when Cecile Meijer, RSCJ, and Evanne Hunter, IBVM, boarded a bus for the United Nations, where they would be attending, as they nearly always do on Thursdays, a briefing for representatives of NGOs. The letters stand for “nongovernmental organizations” and, at the UN, refer specifically to hundreds of not-for-profit voluntary citizens’ groups that share its humanitarian goals and have established official ties.

To read more about Cecile's work at the UN, click on the links under her picture