Main Representative at the UN in NY, Good Shepherd Sisters
Bio
Sister Winifred Doherty spent 16 years in Ethiopia, empowering girls and women through education, economic activities and community development programs, providing alternatives to prostitution and lessening vulnerability to being trafficked. Since 2008 she has been based in New York, serving the Congregation at the United Nations, where she engages with other NGOs and UN agencies in addressing policy issues related to poverty, gender inequalities and violence against women and girls, hallmarks of the Beijing Platform for Action.