Social justice news
2003

December:
Aid agency calls UN force in Liberia too small
Don Bosco Homes, urges the UN to boost its peacekeeping force to help preserve peace in Liberia.

Fair trade justice with that cup of Joe?
Catholic Relief Services begins fair trade coffee campaign

More Than 22 Million on food stamps in U.S.
More seeking food aid as job situation deteriorates and eligibility broadens.

No Merry Christmas for long-term unemployed?
The slight growth in jobs reported for November does not mean the time is right to discontinue the federal unemployment benefits program.

U.S. religious leaders launch new initiative for Mid-East peace
U.S. bishops join other U.S. religious leaders in a new collaborative effort to mobilize broad public support for active and determined U.S. leadership in pursuit of Mid-East peace.

Walled in on the West Bank
Israel security wall blocks Palestinians from farms, income, and aid.

November:
Globalization's cardinal sins
Labor slump is worse since Great Depression
Rich countries get richer and the poor get . . . ?
U.S. bishops reflect on global agriculture

October:
Housing: An American dream moves out of reach
Immigrant workers' 'freedom ride' ends in NYC
Leaders lament U.S. withdrawal from Liberia
Slumworld?
Uninsured numbers rise—again—in 2002
Who's poorer now?

September:
Campaign for optional priestly celibacy grows
Outbreak of peace in Liberia exposes humanitarian crisis
Report finds unions help all workers
USCCB's environment program gets a renovation
USCCB 'recommits' itself to farm workers
U.S. poverty spikes between 2001 and 2002
WTO patent rules deny medicines to the poor
You call this a recovery?

August:
Catholic environmentalist murdered in Honduras
Human rights group implicates Afghan warlords in new abuses
Liberian bishops call for peace—and U.S. intervention
Massachusetts AG releases scathing report on Boston sex abuse
Vatican launches counter-strike against gay marriage, adoption
VOTF has six-point plan for truth and reconciliation in Boston

July:
Amazon destruction jumps in 2002
An early 'Happy Labor Day' from Washington?
Jobless rate hits nine-year high
McDonalds seeks to lower antibiotics in chicken
New pastor fires unionized parish workers
Poverty and disease make global security risks

June:
CAFOD calls on G8 to live up to anti-poverty commitments
Poll finds hunger gnaws on public conscience
Putting a cross-country brake on poverty
USCCB: 'Flawed' border policy contributes to migrant deaths
War on human rights? Yes, says Amnesty International

May:
African American children in "extreme poverty" hits record numbers
Convicted are the peacemakers
CRS/Caritas convoy heads to Baghdad, more help needed
"Deadliest conflict since WWII" continues without global comment
Hispanics hurt and killed on the job at highest rate
Just sue it:
    Nike makes a case for "commercial speech" at the Supreme Court
To the victor goes the spoils? The trouble with Iraqi oil reserves

April:
A battle of the church reform network stars?
American prison population surpasses 2 million
Congress urged to support lasting peace in Congo
CRS responds to humanitarian crisis in Iraq
Dispatches from the peacelines
VOTF meets with Francis Cardinal George

March:
Can war with Iraq be avoided?
Consumer group calls for federal safety standards on SUVs
CCHD cycle tour to publicize problem of U.S. poverty
CRS calls for increase U.S. role in fighting poverty
Nobel Laureates, 450 other economists fault tax cuts plan
U.S. bishops join 'Cover the Uninsured Week': March 10 - 16
U.S. church leaders ask Pope to address UN on Iraq

February:
After clemency in Illinois, will other states follow?
February 11 is World Day of the Sick
Pax Christi USA demands more time for UN weapons inspections
Protesting for your—and Iraq's—health
U.S. Catholic bishops still urge restraint on Iraq
U.S. religious ask to meet with Bush, slow war

January:
State budget deficits may mean health care cuts and worse
January Is poverty in America awareness month
Network accepting applications for its Associates Program
U.S. city councils call for peaceful resolution to Iraq crisis
U.S. bishops call for greater effort for refugees
New study documents religion's impact on environmentalism
INS arrests lead to lawsuit

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