JPIC North America

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples
Ninth Session Meeting at UN Headquarters in New York
April 2010
PRESS CONFERENCE BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FORUM
While indigenous people continued to suffer in the face of massive development projects that stripped their lands of precious traditional resources and displaced their communities en masse, we are at the dawn of a new [...]

Meeting participants are urging new U.S. immigration policies that make family unity a priority and provide visa reform, fair workers rights, earned legal status for the undocumented, and humane enforcement.

Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict continues to make the Care of Creation a central theme of his pontificate.
Pope Lambasts Copenhagen Failure:
Pope Benedict XVI criticises the failure by world leaders to agree to a new climate change treaty in Copenhagen last month.  The link here will take you to the BBC News article with his remarks on [...]

Human trafficking, refugee protection and integration, migrant rights and responsibilities, the right not to migrate, migration management and the care and protection of vulnerable migrant children were all matters under discussion.

The Anglican Communion Environmental Network makes a clear statement here about the increased suffering of the poor as a result of climate change and the moral obligations of the developed world to begin the process of restoring the balance.

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EDMUND RICE INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS:
Climate Change and Human Rights

The Edmund Rice International Team attended the recent celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This event took place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. One of the more striking presentations took the form of a panel discussion on The Earth Charter.  [...]

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Copenhagen Conference
We are working on the site.  This post is going up on October 14, 2009.  I hope to place a statement here about the Copenhagen Conference on Climate which is to take place in December.  We urge all to contact their government leaders and emphasize the need to set rigorous [...]