Philippines: Take Action to Protect Human Rights
Members of Congress and human rights activists raised concerns leading up to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meeting with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.
Brazil: Record Violence Against Indigenous
The Brazilian bishops say record-high violence and rights violations may have made 2021 the “worst year of the century” for Indigenous peoples.
Nicaragua: Bishop Critical of Ortega Arrested
After silencing the press and closing most NGOs, Ortega’s Sandinista government goes after the only influential independent organization left in Nicaragua – the Catholic Church.
Guatemala Emergency Human Rights Delegation
Growing crackdown on political dissent amid already significant corruption and human rights abuses raise concerns of authoritarianism.
Philippine Elections Raise Human Rights Concerns
The May 9 elections in the Philippines brought to power two leaders with family ties to human rights abusers.
Brazil: Deaths and Degradation in the Amazon
REPAM-Brazil demands a government response to the deaths of two leading defenders of indigenous peoples and nature in the Amazon territory.
Tanzania Land Conflict with Maasai
A potentially dangerous stand-off has erupted in north-central Tanzania after the government decided to evict up to 167,000 pastoral Maasai from their land in favor of a wealthy hunting firm owned by the United Arab Republic’s ruling family.
Guatemala: Petition for U.S. Sanctions on Corrupt Leaders
An international campaign for alleviating poverty and suffering in Guatemala has launched a petition calling for new targeted sanctions by the United States.
Maryknoll Sister Human Rights Hero
Maryknoll Sr. Patricia Ryan was recently recognized in Peru for her work over nearly 50 years defending Indigenous rights amid land exploitation in the Latin American country.
Joint Letter to President Biden on Remain in Mexico 2.0 and Title 42
Nearly eleven months since taking office, this administration continues to violate U.S. asylum law and evade U.S. treaty obligations by blocking and returning asylum seekers to places where their lives and safety are in peril.
South Sudan: Climate-fueled Suffering
As half a million people in South Sudan face their third straight year of extreme flooding that the UN says is fueled by climate change, Maryknoll lay missioner Gabe Hurrish writes in his newsletter about the growing hunger and violence in the world’s youngest nation.
Philippine Media Statement on Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize for Filipina journalist Maria Ressa has brought global attention to the struggle for human rights and press freedom in the Philippines.
Maryknoll Joint Leadership Statements
The organizations in the Maryknoll family have issued the following joint statements.
Protecting Human Rights as Maryknoll Mission
Upholding human rights is essential to peace, social justice and care for creation.
Human Rights and Catholic Social Teaching
The foundational principles of Catholic Church teaching on human rights.
COVID-19 Exposes Repression in Latin America
The Latin America Working Group offers a roundup of the actions by governments in Latin America that use the pandemic to expand corrupt or repressive rule or respond with police brutality. The following article was published in the July-August 2020 issue of NewsNotes. COVID-19 has begun to drastically affect life in Latin America. While government restrictions are essential…
Civil Society calls for Protection of Human Rights in Development Interventions
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined thirty organizations calling on the U.S. government to protect human rights in development interventions.
Development that doesn’t respect human rights isn’t ‘aid’
Chloe Schwabe, Faith-Economy-Ecology project coordinator, reports from the 2015 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the IMF in Peru.