Resources

1.UN Human Rights Council debt roundtable concludes debt crisis is a human rights crisis, April 15, 2025. https://mogc.me/HRC-debtcrisis

2.Jubilee Commission of Experts to address Debt and Development Crises. The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS) and Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) will convene during 2025 to address the growing sovereign debt and development crises in the Global South. https://mogc.me/VA-debtcrisis

3.Explainer of Parole Termination for Refugees in the United States prepared by Refugee Council USA https://mogc.me/IR-parole

4.First 100 Days of Trump Administration Action on Immigration by the Migration Policy Institute https://mogc.me/MP-100days

5.Sign the Petition for Justice for Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was unlawfully deported and detained in El Salvador https://mogc.me/CASA-KAG

6.El Salvador: Testimony on prison conditions by director of Human Rights Watch as part of the case J.C.C. v. Trump. https://mogc.me/HRW-ESprison

7.Peru: UN Human Rights Office expressed concerns about new law in Peru to expand government control over NGOs that receive international funding. https://mogc.me/UNHRC-PeruNGO

8.Peru: Catholic bishops of Peru’s Amazon vicariates (CAAAP – Amazon Centre for Applied Anthropology) and the Bishops’ Social Affairs Commission (CEAS) sent a letter on March 25 to the Peruvian government to express concerns about the new law expanding government control over NGOs that receive international funding. In English https://mogc.me/Peru-CAAP-EN and en español https://mogc.me/Peru-CAAP-ES

9.Cambodia: Church accompanies scarred Cambodians 50 years after the Khmer Rouge genocide. https://mogc.me/OSV-KRG

10.Video: Why Gutting USAID Will Hurt America by WIRED https://mogc.me/WIRED-USAID

11.Catholic Relief Services testimony to U.S. Congress on April 2 on the need for Congress to maintain funding for global health, development, disaster relief and migration and refugee programs. https://mogc.me/crs-testimony

12.Statement by Indigenous Women in Brazil. “We are on the front line of the fight against inequality and the attacks of extractivism. https://mogc.me/REPAM-IWB

13.UN: Catholic sisters help highlight the crisis of gender-based violence An article on the 69^th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was published by Global Sisters Report, which will be running a special series in 2025 on violence against women called “Out of the Shadows.” https://mogc.me/GSR-CSW69

14.UN Holy See Mission statement at Third Meeting of State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons On March 4, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, issued a statement during the General Exchange of Views of the Third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). https://mogc.me/UNHSM-TPNW

15.Report: Rewriting the Narrative on Nuclear Weapons by the Nuclear Threat Initiative and Ploughshares to shift the prevailing narrative and bolster collective efforts for nuclear risk reduction. https://mogc.me/NTI-NWRN

16.“Remembering Pope Francis’s Call for a Universal Basic Wage” by economist Pavlina R. Tcherneva of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College https://mogc.me/LEI-PF-UBW

17.Maasai Conservation Vision – 24-page report launched by the Maasai International Solidarity Alliance (MISA) based on input from Maasai communities in northern Tanzania. A one-page summary, the report, and the latest MISA newsletter are available at https://mogc.me/MISA

18.Unspeakable Suffering: The Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons by Reaching Critical Will examines the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons and is aimed at civil society actors, academics, and governments interested in approaching weapons negotiations with a humanitarian lens. https://mogc.me/RCW-US-HINW