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KNOW what the Millenium Development Goals are and encourage your own congregation or province to incorporate them into their own justice and peace goals.

What are the Millenium Development Goals?
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. LEARN MORE

The Earth Charter
... is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society for the 21st century. Created by the largest global consultation process ever associated with an international declaration, endorsed by thousands of organizations representing millions of individuals, the Earth Charter seeks to inspire in all peoples a sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the human family and the larger living world. READ MORE


UN Study Reveals Scale of Violence Against Children

Much violence against children remains hidden and is often socially approved, according to a UN Study on Violence against Children. Read the report. (pdf)

Dominicans add their voice to concerns over crisis in Darfur.

The special session of the Human Rights Council on Darfur heard a series of statements by non-governmental organizations expressing concern about the grave violations of human rights and humanitarian law in Darfur. READ MORE