Human Rights

Julie Clawson 8-31-2009
I, along with the rest of the nation, have watched in horror this past week as the details of the J
While the United States remains focused on health-care reform and back-to-school activities, the impact of the Honduras coup in June continues, much out of the popular media.
Marie Dennis 8-27-2009
They were a very diverse group -- students, a lawyer, Sisters of Mercy and Notre Dame, a union organizer, a teacher, survivors of the brutal 1980s in Honduras.
The Declaration of Independence says:

Becky Garrison 8-18-2009
Jamie Moffett, co-founder of The Simple Way and director of The Ordinary Radicals, tra
Katherine Marshall 8-17-2009
Hospital waiting rooms are glum places pretty much everywhere. People, sick or injured, wait and wait and wait. Nowhere are the huge gaps between rich and poor so graphically in evidence.
Jeannie Choi 8-14-2009
It's been more than a week since journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee returned to American soil, and the entire world is waiting on baited breath to hear their stories.
Aaron Taylor 8-14-2009
A few days ago, radical Muslims in Pakistan began terrorizing the Christian minority in the town of Gojra.
Chris Baker Evens 8-14-2009

A handful of Christians living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, are making use of the age-old nonviolent practice of hospitality to 60 community representatives who suffer constant threats and intimidation as they work to protect land, fisheries, forests, and waterways from development projects (see http://blog.sojo.net/2009/07/24/the-dar

Edward Gilbreath 8-13-2009
It has now been a couple of weeks since President Obama convened what was infamously dubbed the "Beer Summit." You know the story by n
Jim Wallis 8-12-2009
As a nation, we are engaged in making decisions about our health care that will impact our families and communities for generations to come.

We learned the story in Sunday school:

Rose Marie Berger 8-10-2009

By now, we've all seen the angry "regular Americans" who are rising up to resist health-care reform. They are demonstrating loudly at town hall meetings. They are holding rallies.

It's an e-mail to make your blood boil.

If anyone still doesn't believe in global warming, come to Glacier National Park. My wife Karin and I just spent two days of our vacation here.
I am a seminary professor. Activism is not something that comes naturally to me, but I am learning!

In most cases in Occupied Palestine at this point, Palestinian refugees live in UN-administered camps that are essentially urban slums--overcrowded apartment blocks with high rates of poverty. But there are still some refugees that live in tents.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), article 25 paragraph 1 says: "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, i
Ed Spivey Jr. 8-01-2009

With all the mixed signals we’ve been getting these days about the use of torture, it’s hard to know what to believe.