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.