Anna Halpine is the founder of the World Youth Alliance and was the WYA president from 1999 to the spring of 2007. A native of Canada, she graduated cum laude in 1999 with a Bachelor of Music degree from Mount Allison University. In 1998 Anna moved to New York City to study piano at the Taubman Institute and voice at the Julliard School of Music.
From 1998 to 1999 she worked with non-governmental organizations at the United Nations, monitoring conference developments and participating in UN meetings and international conferences. In the summer of 1999 Anna was awarded a cultural ambassadorial scholarship from Rotary International to study German in Austria. From 1999-2000 she worked as a Parliamentary Assistant in the European Parliament. Beginning in the fall of 2000 Anna worked full time as the President of the World Youth Alliance. She has now begun the development of the World Youth Alliance Institute while pursuing graduate studies at Yale.
POVERTY AND THE FAMILY IN THE THIRD WORLD
The family remains the basic unit of society in the world today. In its modern meaning, the family is that social unit comprising a man, his wife and their children. In most sub-Saharan African countries, the extended family, which is a more inclusive definition of the family, includes uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents and other distant relations. This paper has deliberately chosen to make the family its center-piece for a number of reasons.
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The Holy See delegation has participated actively in the negotiations leading to this special session of the General Assembly, a session which has raised issues of critical importance to the lives of millions of women worldwide, and which has been evaluating the progress that has been made since the Fourth World Conference on Women.
