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| 22.11.2004 |  | | WCC Advocacy Week: 2005 will be a crucial year for church advocacy
"By emphasizing fundamental ethics and humanity, by giving voice to the voiceless, by focusing on inclusiveness and a deeper sense of hope, by highlighting the importance of the meeting of cultures, by being ecumenical, religion will make a much-needed and constructive contribution to our societies," said WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) director Peter Weiderud during one of the Week's final sessions. Read more
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| 19.11.2004 | | | WCC advocacy week: reform should empower, strengthen and democratize the United Nations
"Reform means different things to different actors," said Andreas Zumach, Geneva-based international correspondent of the Berlin daily Tageszeitung who has become known as an expert on international institutions, at a fourth public seminar held in the framework of a 14-19 November World Council of Churches (WCC) international advocacy week at the UN in New York. Read more
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| 18.11.2004 | | | WCC advocacy week at UN highlights creative ecumenical peacemaking methods in Sudan, Korea, Israel/Palestine and Colombia
Through combined spiritual accompaniment and active advocacy approaches, the ecumenical movement is making a vital contribution to the work for peace in crisis regions around the world. A case in point - Sudan - was the main focus of the third public seminar at a 14-19 November World Council of Churches (WCC) international affairs and advocacy week at the UN in New York. Read more
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| 17.11.2004 | | | "Danger: memory of nuclear threat is fading" WCC seminar at UN warns
After 1989, there was hope that the end of the Cold War would put a stop to the use of nuclear power as a guarantee of "global security". Since then however, not only have the superpowers retained nuclear weapons, but additional states have developed nuclear capability, and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) seems to be in serious crisis. In May 2005, this treaty will be reviewed in conference at the United Nations in New York, and the churches will need to focus their advocacy and education efforts during the coming months leading up to this conference. Read more
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| 16.11.2004 | | | Economic justice: "National accountability key to achieving Millennium Development Goals"
From Sweden to Kenya, churches should take responsibility for mobilizing locally and advocating for economic justice at their national government level. This was one of the main messages from a public seminar on “The role of the churches in fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals” taking place in New York City during a World Council of Churches (WCC) International Affairs and Advocacy Week at the United Nations. Read more
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| 11.11.2004 |  | | Churches to discuss their international advocacy work while UN meets in New York
UN reform, economic justice, the crisis in Sudan and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty will be the focus of this year’s World Council of Churches' (WCC) UN Advocacy Week, scheduled to take place from 14-19 November in New York City at the "Church Center" at the UN and the WCC's UN liaison office, with some seminars taking place in the United Nations building itself. Read more
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