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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)

Archive of Articles and News on Immigration posted on this website:

Action Needed Now: Urge your Member of Congress to Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform. (2/16/07)

Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reforms (9/22/06)

Interfaith Statement on Immigration (9/20/06)

The Plight of Haitian Migrants in the Dominican Republic (9/19/06)

A Labor Day Reflection on Immigration and Work by Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio (9/4/06)

Press release from Brendan Curran, OP: Immigrant Herminia Silva dies crossing the border to re-unite with her family in Chicago(8/9/06)

Schedule for House of Representatives Hearings on Immigration now available (7/28/06)

Interfaith statement in support of Comprehensive Immigration Reform(7/11/06)

Bridging the Border (6/12/06)

Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC) Sponsors June 2006: Torture Awareness Month(6/06)

Jim Loiacono, OMI, an Oblate pastor who aides immigrants, is featured in Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News and others (4/24/06)

New Border Publication JPIC Office helped to write, edit and publish (3/27/06)

An Immigration Update (3/24/06)

Action Alert on Trade and Migration (12/7/05)

Oblate JPIC Office plans Tucson Gathering on Border / Immigration Issues (10/21/05)

JPIC Office plans DC event about the border (9/19/05)

People of faith speak out on immigration issues (6/23/05)

Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC) Sponsors June 2006: Torture Awareness Month (6/06)

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