Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined members of the Justice for Immigrants (JFI) Campaign from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in a letter to President Biden calling for protections for longtime undocumented residents in the United States. Read the letter as a PDF.
Events, webinars, two-pagers, guides, and briefs.
The theme is “Faith in Action: Advancing Human Rights and Peace for All,” May 17-19 in Washington, DC.
A UN expert visited the Philippines and called on Pres. Marcos Jr. to speak out against red-tagging and disband an anti-communist task force.
As international negotiators work out the details of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, key victories in the Digital Trade sphere of negotiations have already been achieved.
The UN Security Council held its first open meeting on Myanmar since 2019 in New York on April 4, 2024.
Representatives of the Maryknoll family who attended the session share their takeaways.
Ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20, UN agencies and NGOs note a rise in the number of refugees around the globe are on the rise and further forces of destabilization that put people more at risk.
As nations in the Global North rush to transition to carbon-neutral energy, extractive industries exploit countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo to meet the growing mineral demand.
Violence in the eastern DRC provinces of North Kivu and Ituri highlight the precarity of the country’s security due heavily armed rebel groups, foreign intervention, and battle over access to the DRC’s mineral reserves.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns supports efforts by the Maasai people of northern Tanzania to protect their ancestral land.
April 15 marked one year of fighting in Sudan between the military and rebel forces, each appearing to be loyal only to power and profit.
Gangs continue to exert power in Haiti as a transitional government takes office, and the United States blocks the path of migrants fleeing the violence while failing to stop the flow of illegal weapons to the Caribbean nation.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and other Christian groups stand with Muslims, Jews, and others in praying, demonstrating, and advocating for a ceasefire and sustainable, just peace in the Middle East.
Former Maryknoll Lay Missioner Barbara Fraser reports of recent legal victories for water defenders.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 40 human rights and faith-centric organizations in a “Thank you” letter to President Biden and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai for withdrawing U.S. support for extreme digital trade proposals in the ongoing negotiations in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 102 other Refugee and Human Rights Organizations in a Letter to President Biden, Speaker Johnson, and Majority Leader Schumer on Restoring U.S. Funding to UNRWA. The UN aid organization had its funding frozen by law in this current Congress while famine and starvation conditions exist in Gaza now.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns coordinated a letter from 35 different faith groups in a letter to the newly appointed Loss and Damage Fund Board Members who meet for the first time this week. The letter requests that the Fund be accessible, effective, and debt-free; that it consider objectives holistically between economic and non-economic damage; and that plan a long-term strategy to address its true need.
