As a member of the Energy & Ecology Working Group of the Washington Interfaith Staff Community, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns signs on a letter addressing the withdrawal from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Catholic organizations at the United Nations raise concerns over recent “actions that violate national sovereignty in favor of resource extraction and economic greed.”
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns released a statement expressing grave concern over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) finalization of the repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns expresses deep concern over the end of the New START treaty and entreats policymakers to negotiate a replacement, circumventing a potential arms race.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns welcomes the court decision to maintain deportation protections for over 350,000 Haitians living in the United States. We recognize this decision as an important affirmation of human dignity, and reaffirm our commitment to working with Congress and the Administration to secure permanent protections and a pathway to residency for Haitian TPS holders who have long called this country home.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joins with over 300 other organizations to call for an extension of TPS for Haiti.
With 54 other faith and civil society organizations, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns calls on Congress to prevent a new nuclear arms race.
As a member of the Haiti Advocacy Working Group, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns shared its concerns about the Gang Suppression Force with Ambassador Henry Wooster.
Ahead of the 24th anniversary of Guantánamo’s opening, 116 organizations signed this statement led by CVT and the Center for Constitutional Rights reaffirming that it must be closed, without repurposing it for any future detention regime, and that there must be redress for individuals who were held and whose rights were violated.
The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the UNFCCC means the United States is neglecting its moral responsibility as a global power and the largest historical contributor to the climate crisis.
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Experts believe ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 is possible with enough political will, funding, and access to tools for prevention and treatment.
Under threat of fracture, world leaders renewed their commitment to multilateralism while avoiding major decisions on debt relief for the Global South.
Maryknoll lay missioner Hang Tran is in northern Cambodia providing care for people displaced by the recent violent border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia.
Pope Leo focuses on the need for disarmament at many levels in his message for World Day of Peace as the U.S. and Russia move closer to the end of the last remaining arms control treaty between the two nuclear powers.
Kairos Palestine launches its second document, condemning apartheid, settler colonialism, and ethnic cleansing.
The UN Committee Against Torture highlights allegations, including dog attacks and sexual violence, by Israeli military personal, raising concern about war crimes.
The Trump administration aims to send thousands of immigrants to the Guantánamo Bay Detention Center where fifteen men remain in indefinite detention, 24 years since the hidden and abusive prison opened.
