Upholding human rights enables a society to put people at the center of all policymaking – political, economic and social – thus protecting the life and dignity of the human person whatever its condition or stage of development. In the year 2020, the world entered into the novel coronavirus pandemic, an unprecedented crisis that impacts all aspects of life and presents new threats to upholding human rights.
December 10 is International Human Rights Day. Join us in reciting this prayer by Rabbi Brant Rosen. Explore our Lenten Reflection Guide on human rights.
To understand what our faith teaches about human rights, see “Catholic Social Teaching and Human Rights.”
To learn about Maryknoll mission experience honoring and protecting human rights and the life and dignity of the human person, especially those who are poor and vulnerable, read Maryknoll’s 100 Years of Mission.
To learn about human rights advocacy, watch a 30-minute webinar, “Human Rights Advocacy and the Legacy of Sr. Dianna Ortiz.” You will also find a corresponding page of resources on current human rights issues.
To learn about new threats to human rights, see our articles featured in Maryknoll Magazine:
Upholding Human Rights During the Pandemic
A “David and Goliath” Story of Water Defenders
In the last few years, Ecuador has experienced a disturbing increase in government, police and military crackdowns on peaceful protests held against the exploitation of natural resources.
Fr. Doug May, MM, will share his thoughts about Egypt’s current reality.
On March 19, Guatemala’s former president Efraín Ríos Montt and José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez are going to trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for massacres committed against indigenous civilians in Guatemala’s Ixil triangle.
The following report onthe February 2013 meeting of the UN Commission on Social Development was written by Sr. Elizabeth (Claris) Zwareva, MM, who represents Maryknoll at the UN.
Send this electronic postcard your U.S. senators and representatives asking that they pass just and compassionate immigration reform legislation in the 113th Congress.
Carolyn Trumble lives and works as a Maryknoll lay missioner in Brazil.
Sr. Marion Hughes lives and works in Musoma, Tanzania.
Angel Mortel and her husband Chad Ribordy live in Brazil, where they served as lay missioners for many years.
The ongoing struggle for just and humane immigration reform in the U.S. will probably stretch out all spring.
The following article was written by Sr. Teresa Hougnon, MM, who lives and works in Kenya, where elections took place on Monday, March 4.
Over the past year, Honduran indigenous and peasant people have been caught between the land grabbers and the “war on drugs.”
On January 28, 2013 a Guatemalan judge ruled that former head of state Efrain Rios Montt would be tried for genocide in a domestic court.
Join this year’s Economic and Ecological Way of the Cross as it moves through Washington, D.C. on Good Friday, April 3.
This four-day conference for Catholic social justice ministry is sponsored by the Roundtable Association of Catholic Diocesan Social Justice Directors. The 2013 theme is “Many borders, one body in Christ.” Speakers include Bishop Gerald Kicanas (Tucson), Archbishop Ulysses Macias (Hermosillo, Mexico), Fr. Dan Groody, CSC (University of Notre Dame), and Rev. John Fife (co-founder of the Sanctuary…
Join in an act of global solidarity with the suffering people of Syria.
February 12 marks the eighth anniversary of the death of Sr. Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN, in Brazil.
These policy goals are endorsed by 23 faith-based organizations and have been sent to the White House, USAID and the State Department.
Fr. Ray Finch has spent his mission life among the people of the Andes in Bolivia and Peru.
