Human Rights

"Give Us This Day"

Jesus' prayer asking God to "Give us this day our daily bread" can inspire Christians today to think seriously and hopefully about a reworking our food system and lifestyles so that food...
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Prayer Service for Women's Rights

Prayer Service
This new prayer service for women's rights includes quotes from Catholic Social Teaching, as well as a litany for women's rights around the world.    

Send My Friend to School Week

Schools across the U.S. participate in Send My Friend to School Week, usually the last week in April. Use this week to learn about education and literacy across the world, and to take action.

Food Security/Insecurity in the World and the MDGs

The lack of food security for much of the world's population is slowing down progress toward the Millenium Development Goals. Catholic Social Teaching, particularly statements by Pope John Paul II,...
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Woman of Faith, Woman of Justice: Dorothy Stang

This article is a tribute to Sr. Dorothy Stang, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Dorothy "Dot" Stang, moved to Brazil 40 years ago to help the poor build independent futures for their...
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The Health Worker Crisis

There is a 4.25 million person shortage of health care workers in the world. The Americas have 14% of the world's population but 37% of health care workers, while Africa, with 11% of the world's...
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Student Campaign for Child Survival

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The Diocese of Orlando-Diocese of San Juan de Maguana

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Health Care is a Human Right - Especially for Children

The right to health care, especially for children, is a basic right that has been long supported by the Church. A fact sheet on Children and Health Care in the U.S. and an action agenda is posted...
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A Day in the Life of a Child in the United States

Lesson Plan
This activity, reproduced with permission from NETWORK Social Justice Lobby, a Catholic advocacy group, walks through the day of children in the U.S. from the perspective of a child in a low-income...
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Child Soldiers in Uganda

Up to 20,000 children in northern Uganda have been kidnapped and forced to fight in a conflict that has been raging for 19 years. Other children flee from rural areas to villages to sleep at night,...
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Remember the Immigrant Prayer Service

Prayer Service
This prayer service is for remembering the immigrants, as Scripture encourages us, and is by the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice.