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Pressing need for practical, swift and effective access, by women and girls, to the legal systems currently in force in their countries of birth and/or residence, in these times of grave geopolitical and climate crises – Written statement submitted by Mary Christ Society to the UN CSW70

Pressing need for practical, swift and effective access, by women and girls, to the legal systems currently in force in their countries of birth and/or residence, in these times of grave geopolitical and climate crises - Written statement submitted by Mary Christ Society to the UN CSW70

The Mary Christ Society (formally, Sociedade Filantrópica Maria de Nazaré), an organization in special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council since 2018, through its founding president Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar, sends its written statement to the largest international forum for the empowerment of women and girls, the “Commission on the Status of Women”, in its the 70th session – CSW70 (2026)¹

In this era of progressively complex problems faced by individuals and collectivities — from local to national —, both in essential areas, such as food security, basic sanitation, medical and dental care and elementary education, as well as in the more intricate realms of issues concerning the integration of underprivileged communities into the benefits of digital technology, including the paradoxical rebounds resulting from the galloping and exponential advance of AI, with serious harm to the job market, such as the disappearance of paid occupations, it is imperative to have powerful legal mechanisms that regulate socioeconomic elites – such as those that control the big techs – and protect discriminated minorities, such as women and girls, especially those who are poor, black, LGBT and residents of countries also marked by poverty.

It is the responsibility of national public authorities and international organizations, along with the initiatives of volunteers, philanthropists and NGOs, to provide urgent and effective measures, with the potential to become structural, in the combat of injustices perpetrated by governments, corporations and individuals against the already so disadvantaged population of women and girls, in most corners of the globe.

Faced with the imminent danger of climate Armageddon and the acute geopolitical crisis, both showing no prospect of resolution in the short or medium term, the moment has come, leaving no room for hesitation, for vigorous decision-making, with profound and lasting impact, in order to guarantee a minimum of security, survival and dignity to hundreds of millions of women and girls, with particular emphasis on the significant share who also belongs to the vulnerable segments of the black race or the LGBTQIA+ community.

Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar (medium)

Eugênia-Aspásia e Matheus-Anacleto (Spirits)

Saint-Prex, Switzerland

October 7, 2025

1. CSW70 (2026) Theme: “Ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including by promoting inclusive and equitable legal systems, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and addressing structural barriers.”

Winters of life and the power in you

You may feel like this tree: without leaves, flowers or fruit. Someone who does not know that this is a natural phenomenon, typical of the coldest parts of the temperate regions of the planet, might look at it and imagine it dead forever…

Just as the winters of life pass, so that the springs of existence inevitably arrive, you, despite currently experiencing this cyclical winter of the human condition, will once again display the greenery (leaves) of motivation, see the beauty and charm of opportunities in all areas of your action in the world (flowers), and strive for achievements for your own good and for the good of your fellow human beings (fruits).

However, be alert to collaborate with the process, because you are a human being, not a plant. Therefore, the above metaphor helps in initial reflection, but it fails to encompass the full complexity of human evolutionary challenges. From a more realistic perspective, the individual must mobilize to begin discovering these leaves, flowers and fruits within themselves, to offer them to the world, however meager and pale, in the first stages of renewing one’s own path. It is with initiative, creativity and continuous effort, taking full responsibility for yourself, that you will foster existential rebirths… doing your best, within the context of each situation in which you find yourself.

Remember Jesus cursing the fig tree for being without figs, outside the fig-bearing season… Christ was delivering a dramatic apology for human freedom to be and act, independent of external factors. Act, with determination, discipline and persistence, for the good and improvement of the less fortunate existential situation in which you find yourself, starting right now, without waiting for special seasons of disposition, ideal emotional or financial circumstances, opportunities or miraculous resources that appear out of nowhere, without work or merit.

As the composer Geraldo Vandré would say, in a hymn of hope for a generation: “Come, let’s go, for waiting is not knowing… Those who know make the time, they do not wait for it to happen!”

Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar
and Spiritual Friends
New Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
January 11, 2017

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