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NGOs Press UN to Block Sri Lanka's Bid for Human Rights Council Seat (5/08/08)
 

ADB pulls out of controversial coal project in  Bangladesh (5/08/08)

“PROJECT KALEIDOSCOPE” REPORT" to improve working conditions in Corporate Supply Chains released (5/08/08)

Safeguarding Food Production - Take Action!(5/01/08)

US Senate Passes Resolution calling on President Mugabe to Step Down. (5/01/08)

 

Zambian Oblates Attend the Africa Faith and Justice Network 25TH Anniversary Conference (04/29/08)

 

Bishops demand LTTE quit Madhu shrine (4/24/08)

 

Oblate Delegation to UN pictured outside the UN Building (04/24/08)

 

UN meet starts with call to protect rights of indigenous people (04/24/08)

 

OMI Delegation Attends UN Forum on Indigenous People (04-24-08)

 

Earth Day concert at novitiate in Godfrey (04/24/08)

 

Roadside Bomb Kills Sri Lankan Priest (04/21/08)

 

April 2008 issue of JPIC News is available (4/09/08)

 

UN Vatican Rep Calls for Action on MDGs (04/07/08)

 

MD Commission on Capital Punishment Approved (04/07/08)

 

Action Alert: Jubilee Act Moves to Floor Vote (4/04/08)

 

Action Alert: Protect the Wild Spaces in the US (4/04/08)

 

Standing with the People of Zimbabwe: Oblate JPIC Statement on the Zimbabwe Elections (4/04/08)

 

Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Commission for Social Affairs issues letter on the Environment (03/18/08)

 

Oppose the SAVE Act (3/18/08)

 

Zimbabwe 2008 elections:
The Prospect of Intimidation and Violence (3/14/08)
 

Free Trade Agreement with Colombia Opposed by Religious Community (3/07/08)

 

Investors File Record Number of Global Warming Resolutions with U.S. Companies (3/06/08)

Sri Lanka Civil Society Groups decry deteriorating Human Rights situation (3/06/08)

Sri Lanka: A Country in Search of Its Identity, by Oswald Firth, OMI (3/06/08)

Zambia: International Mining Companies Threaten legal Action against Government over New Taxes (2/15/08)
 

Africa and the Bush Administration (2/14/08)

 

Put the Millennium Development Goals in your Lenten Observance (2/4/08)

 

Corporate Responsibility Work of Oblate JPIC Director Seamus Finn featured in Irish America Magazine (1/29/08)

 

Websites about Human Trafficking/Modern Slavery (1/29/08)

 

College Students Track Sex Trafficking in San Francisco (1/29/08)

 

On Challenges, Dilemmas, and Opportunities in Studying Trafficked Children (1/29/08)

 

Mgr Casale  Sept. 2007 Congressional Testimony on Human Trafficking (1/29/08)

 

Migration and New Slaveries (1/29/08)
 

Oblate Priest killed in the Philippines (1/25/08)

 

Pray for Peace in Kenya (1/24/08)

 

Sri Lankan NGOs Protest Ceasefire End (1/24/08)

 

Africa's Garment Sector: Making Suppliers to the U.S. Market Accountable on Labor Rights (1/22/08)
 

January 11 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Take Action! (1/11/08)

 

Take Note: Up-Coming Conferences in the Washington DC Area (01/04/08)
 

Celebrate National Immigration Week Jan. 6-12, 2008 (1/03/08)

 

US Bishops Calendar for National  Immigration Week (1/03/08)

 

The Death Penalty Information Center Issues 2007 report. (1/03/08)

 

Election 2008: Voting the Common Good; A new initiative from the Center of Concern (12/14/07)

 

Maplecroft Interactive Map on HIV/AIDS updated. (12/10/07)

 

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's statement on Human Rights Day. 2007 is the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (12/10/07)

 

Pax Christi launches campaign against $150 billion nuclear weapon program - "Complex 2030" (12/07/07)

 

Innocence: another Inmate exonerated, after 16 Years on Death Row (12/07/07)

 

USG/USIG and Caritas issue Joint Declaration on Human Trafficking (12/07/07)

 

Immigration Action: Oppose the Save Act of  2007 (11/27/07)

Where all shall find a Home: MD Catholic Bishops statement on Immigration. (11/27/07)

Immigration Resources for Priests issued by Maryland Catholic Conference (11/27/07)

 

Root Causes of Migration; one-page handout from MD Catholic Conference (11/27/07)

 

Oblate Advent Materials on Immigration (11/27/07)

Free Trade Agreement with Colombia Opposed by Religious Community


 

Calling for international trade and investment activities to advance the common good, twenty faith-based groups, including the Oblate JPIC Office, sent a letter to the US Congress opposing the Colombia FTA. The signers believe Free Trade Agreements should be evaluated in light of their impact on the most vulnerable, which in the case of Colombia, are the Afro-Colombian and Indigenous populations. The U.S.-Colombia FTA fails these tests.


Click here for the text of the letter (pdf)

 

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