Social Justice News 2008

This month:

Conference to confront Noma, the 'face of poverty,' on May 22
CCHD's 'global town hall' looks at race and poverty
Five questions with environmentalist and educator Sister Anne Clifford, C.S.J.

March
Convention seeks "common good" platform for 2008 elections
Maryland Legislature passes measure to set up study of death penalty
CHA official offers Catholic take on U.S. health care reform principles
CRS urges Congress to preserve global food aid
Hong Kong church commission urges China to stop suppressing Tibetans
CCHD honors Florida’s Coalition Of Immokalee Workers
Catholic Charities USA: America's vulnerable need more help
Aid agencies say humanitarian situation in Gaza worst since 1967
Gaza medical system at breaking point
SIERRA LEONE: Child and maternal mortality worst in the world

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February
Labor rights abuses persist in Mexico
Catholic sisters says U.S. must respond to Iraq refugee crisis
CRS: Refugees from Chad face desperate situation
Catholic Charities USA in emergency response to mid-South tornadoes
A vote of confidence for open source elections
Catholic Charities USA: President's budget hurts low-income families
Catholic peacemakers plan Ash Wednesday service at White House
CRS: Operation Rice Bowl begins Ash Wednesday (February 6)
Maryknoll offers foreign policy campaign guide
CAFOD says Free Trade Agreement will destroy poor farmers' jobs
Kenya: Catholic aid organizations call for end of political violence
Israeli high court allows power, fuel cuts to Gaza
Catholic Charities USA to presidential candidates: Make poverty a priority
U.S. Bishops urge 'economic stimulus' priority for poor families


January
Afghanistan: Aid reaches winter-affected families as deaths top 500
Caritas to stress delivering for the poor at World Economic Forum in Davos
CRS: Gaza crisis literally spills over into Egypt
Catholic Charities USA calls for renewed national debate on race/poverty
Winter emergency in western Afghanistan
Flooding threatens in Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
A busy day in Washington town: International Day of Action to Shut Down Guantánamo and the National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
National Migration Week: From many, one family of God
Political violence erupts in Kenya


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