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International Men’s Day is a call for international collaboration to address the challenges and problems men face; for improving gender relations between men and women; for promoting gender equality; and for highlighting positive male role models.
International Men's Day was started by Dr. Jerome Teelucksingh on November 19th 1999 in Trinidad and Tobago and was supported by the United Nations. The event received wide support from men's groups in USA, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
Objectives of International Men's Day include a focus on men's and boy's health, improving gender relations, promoting gender equality, and highlighting positive male role models. It is an occasion for men to highlight discrimination against them and to celebrate their achieve-ments and contributions, in particular for their contributions to commu-nity, family, marriage, and child care.
Men make sacrifices everyday in their place of work, in their role as husbands and fathers, for their families, for their friends, for their com-munities and for their nation. International Men’s Day is an opportunity for people everywhere of goodwill to appreciate and celebrate the men in their lives and the contribution they make to society for the greater good of all.
In consultation with organizers from other nations the following core objectives of IMD are observed:
• To promote positive male role models; not just movie stars and sports men but every day, working class men who are living decent, honest lives.
• To celebrate men’s positive contributions to society, community, family, marriage, child care, and to the environment.
• To focus on men’s health and wellbeing; social, emotional, physi-cal and spiritual.
• To highlight discrimination against men; in areas of social ser-vices, social attitudes and expectations, and law.
• To improve gender relations and promote gender equality.
• To create a safer, better world; where people can be safe and grow to reach their full potential
International Men's Day is celebrated in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Australia, India, Italy, United States, New Zealand, Moldova, Haiti, Singapore, Malta, South Africa, Ghana, Hungary, Canada, China, and the United Kingdom.
International Men’s Day is an occasion to highlight and promote positive role models in all walks of life. It is a day to remind ourselves to honor all men – academic achievers, social leaders, champions of the environment, artists, comedians, soldiers, farmers, fishermen, fire fighters, and those more humble males who, on a daily basis, clean our streets, build our houses, fix our vehicles, police our streets, deliver newspapers and milk, care for children, and dedicate themselves to others.
It is a day to remember that we must celebrate all men in our lives – our fathers, brothers, partners, sons, male friends, neighbors and colleagues.
For more information visit www.internationalmensday.org
New York State International Men's Day Co-Regional Coordinators
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About Cathleen...
Cathleen Williams is an attorney and registered nurse with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from
the University of Delaware, a Doctor of Jurisprudence from The Ohio State University Moritz College of
Law, and a Masters Degree in Health Law from Seton Hall University.
Cathleen is CEO and Executive Producer of I'm Just Saying Talk Show and I’m Just Saying LIVE, which
airs weekly in New York City on Time Warner Cable. She is also the host and EXECUTIVE producer of
Ask Cathleen and Adam, Where Art Thou Radio Programs, which airs every Sunday evening at 7 PM EST
on Blog Talk Radio. Ms. Williams works passionately on behalf of men's issues, and has dedicated her
television and radio programs to highlighting positive male role models and discussing issues of
importance to men, children and families. Cathleen is very passionate about education of boys in our
society, as she is the single mother of a young man who came through the New York City public school
system; Cathleen understands first hand that it is possible to raise successful educated young men, and she
seeks to help improve the high school graduation rates of young black men in the United States by sharing
her story through a series of books for single mothers. Cathleen is working with Susan Taylor and others to
establish a Southeast Queens CARES Mentoring Circle, and she has started her own program called 3L:
Law Leaders and Lunch to introduce students in the New York City area to the legal profession and careers
in politics. Cathleen was on the NYC Dads Matter Selection Committee and continues to seek ways to link
single parents for the best interest of all children. Cathleen is a member of the Greater Allen A.M.E.
Cathedral. She is a licensed attorney with a general practice The Williams Group, LLC in Queens New
York. Contact Cathleen
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About Reverend Craig...
REVEREND PHILIP CRAIG of the Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York
(www.allencathedral.org) serves as an Associate Reverend under the leadership of
The REVEREND DR. FLOYD H. FLAKE is the Founding Coordinator of the Greater Allen A.M.E.
Cathedral of New York’s “Fatherhood Support Ministry” and also plays a leadership role in various
ministries at the church. A New York native who was born in Brooklyn and raised in Jamaica, Queens,
New York, REVEREND CRAIG holds a Certificate in Ministry and a Master of Divinity
Degree from the New York Theological Seminary and he received a Master’s degree in Business
Administration from Nyack Business College. Reverend Craig is currently pursuing his Doctorate in
Theology from New York Theological Institute, and is writing his thesis on the Face of the Fatherless
Child. Reverend Craig has a passion for fathers, and has worked diligently to make sure that single fathers
have the guidance, support and direction they need to be the best fathers they can be, Reverend Craig
speaks to fathers throughout the city of New York, and has coordinated with the most important fatherhood
support city organizations to encourage their participation with fathers in the community. Reverend Craig
is a devoted father and husband and works tirelessly to make sure that every father has a family and every
family has a dad. Among many other community programs that he directs and supports, Reverend Craig is
involved with My Community and Us, a new initiative to Redesign and Redefine the Relationship between
faith-based organizations, corporate America, government and private foundations to benefit communities
around New York. Contact Reverend Craig.
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