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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)
Root Causes of Migration; one-page handout from MD Catholic
Conference (11/27/07)
Oblate Advent Materials on Immigration (11/27/07)
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Haiti Debt Relief Bill (H. Res. 241) Needs Co-sponsors
Good news on debt relief: Rep. Maxine Waters filed the
Haiti Debt Relief Bill in the U.S. House of Representatives earlier
in March. The bill calls for the complete and immediate cancellation of
Haiti’s multilateral debt (more on that below). As the bill notes, Haiti
sends $56 million in debt service payments each year to international
financial institutions that were founded to fight poverty, money that
could be better spent on providing clean water, education and healthcare
to Haiti’s poor. Over half of the loans were given to the Duvaliers or
other dictatorships; much of it never reached the poor.
The people of Haiti need our help.
The Haiti Debt Relief Bill,
H.RES.241,
is the latest in a long line of initiatives by
Rep. Waters to bring justice to Haiti’s poor and they need our help
to garner co-sponsors to move the legislation forward. Please call your
Representative, preferably in the Washington
office (call the House Switchboard, 202-224-3121, and ask for your
Rep.’s office), but you can call the District offices also. You need
only tell whoever answers the phone “my name is ___, I live in
____ and I support debt cancellation to release resources to fight
poverty in Haiti. I am calling to urge Rep. ______ to co-sponsor House
Resolution 241, which would immediately cancel Haiti’s debt.” That
should take less than 60 seconds, including dialing. If you want to do
more, ask for the staff member who covers debt relief or foreign policy
issues, and
ask what the Representative’s position is. To help, Jubilee has a sample
phone script; for tips on lobbying by phone,
click here. Tell the person you are talking to that Cosponsors can
sign up with Kathleen Sengstock in Rep. Waters’ office.
Right now, H.Res. 241 has 7
cosponsors. Last year’s Haiti Debt Relief Act had over sixty
(click
here for list). Let’s give this bill some momentum now.
To learn more about Haiti’s debt, see
the
Debt Relief for Haiti section of our website or
Break the Chains of Haiti's Debt on Jubilee USA’s website.
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