Models to curb carbon yield different results
As the global community begins to recognize the dangers of climate disruption, some industrialized nations are starting to implement policies to help alleviate some of the stress put on our planet.
Water and the Keystone XL Pipeline
The following article, published in the September-October 2014 NewsNotes, was written by Christiana Z. Peppard, Ph.D.; it was prepared in response to readers’ reactions to the World Watch column in the May-June Maryknoll magazine, which focused on the faith community’s actions to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
HIV-AIDS: Report from 20th Int’l Conference
The following excerpt from a report written by Fr. Joe Fedora, MM, who attended the 20th International AIDS Conference, held July 20-25 in Melbourne, Australia, was published in the September-October 2014 NewsNotes
Liberia: Militarization of fight against Ebola
The following report, published in the September-October 2014 NewsNotes, was written by Ezekiel Pajibo, who was an active member of the resistance movement against then-dictator Samuel Doe in Liberia in the 1980s; Pajibo was imprisoned for his work, landing him on the list of Amnesty International’s prisoners of conscience. He now lives in South Africa.
Assessing U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit
The first ever U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit, held August 4-6, has come and gone. Assessments of the Summit’s impact are now underway both in the United States and in Africa.
Japan: Fukushima clean-up challenges
Three years after the Fukushima disaster, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to have his country’s decommissioned nuclear power plants restarted and made active again.
Migration: Where are Nicaraguan children?
A central cause of the recent dramatic increase in the number of unaccompanied children immigrating into the U.S. through its border with Mexico is the high level of crime and violence in the principal “sending countries” – Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador (collectively referred to as the Northern Triangle) and Mexico.
Migration crisis in U.S.
The following article was written by Eben Levey, who worked with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns from September 2013 through August 2014.
Guatemala: Communities attempt to block dam
In mid-August, the Guatemalan government deployed over 1,500 police to Monte Olivo to evict 160 families of the community 9 de Febrero in order to allow the construction of the Santa Rita dam to go forward.
Brazil: Deforestation decreases
While unable to win the World Cup this year, Brazil has become the champion in another, more important area, becoming the country with the largest reductions in the rates of deforestation and carbon emissions.
Latin America united against Israeli attacks on Gaza
Latin American nations have had strong negative reactions to Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, the term used for its recent military operation against Hamas, threatening to set back Israeli-Latin America relations that had been growing in recent years.
65 national religious groups, academics, ministers urge alternatives to U.S. military action in Iraq
The following letter was sent on August 27, 2014.
Israel-Palestine: Maryknoll urges immediate end to violence
On Tuesday, July 22, the following letter was sent to President Obama (and copied to members of Congress); it was signed by the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and several other members of the Faith Forum.
Urgent: Stop cuts to refugee services; help unaccompanied children
The following alert is circulated by the Interfaith Immigration Coalition.
Gaza in crisis, updated August 20
Fr. Jack Sullivan MM has prepared the following round-up of information about the current crisis in Palestine and Israel.
Free trade: Threat to food safety, security
Alex Bianco, an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns’ Faith Economy Ecology project, contributed to this article was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Detainees held in “iceboxes”
Brittany McKinley, an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, contributed to this article which was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Migration: Crisis on two borders
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) recently published Mexico’s Other Border Security, Migration, and the Humanitarian Crisis between Guatemala and Mexico.