Advocacy – Page 16

Creativity Confronts Climate Change on Colombia’s Coast

September 11, 2017

Advocacy, Climate Change, Colombia, Rural Justice

Leanna Buisman lives and works in the Colombian community of Pichilin, as part of the Seed program. This article is part of our series on food security and climate change. The challenges and complexity of c...

Weekly News Roundup, Sept 8, 2017

September 8, 2017

Advocacy, Weekly Roundup

The News Roundup is a regular section of the blog, featuring news articles from various sources around the web, with the goal of providing an overview of the weekly conversation about the countries where MCC wo...

Spring Up Oh Well

September 6, 2017

Advocacy, Colombia, Peace and Non-Violence, Rural Justice

Anna Vogt is the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Advocacy and Context Analyst. This reflection was originally published on Anna’s personal blog. When I was a little girl, one of my favourite songs to si...

Breaking the Silence: Addressing Gender-based and Sexual Violence in Bolivia

August 30, 2017

Advocacy, Bolivia, Peace and Non-Violence

Rebekah Nimtz is an MCC Service Worker in the cross-roads, bread-basket city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. *This article deals with a difficult subject matter and contains examples of violence. * I noticed whil...

Weekly News Roundup, August 25, 2017

August 25, 2017

Advocacy, Weekly Roundup

The News Roundup is a regular section of the blog, featuring news articles from various sources around the web, with the goal of providing an overview of the weekly conversation about the countries where MCC wo...

10 Lessons for World Humanitarian Day

August 22, 2017

Advocacy, Peace and Non-Violence

Anna Vogt is the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Advocacy and Context Analyst. This reflection was originally published on Anna’s personal blog. In honour of World Humanitarian Day, I’m sharing ten less...

Weekly News Roundup, August 18, 2017

August 18, 2017

Advocacy, Weekly Roundup

The News Roundup is a regular section of the blog, featuring news articles from various sources around the web, with the goal of providing an overview of the weekly conversation about the countries where MCC wo...

Lessons in Tortilla Making from Nicaragua

August 10, 2017

Advocacy, Climate Change, Nicaragua

Steve Gisel is MCC Nicaragua's agricultural coordinator. This article is part of our ongoing series on food security and climate change. Corn and beans are staple foods here in Nicaragua. I don’t believe tha...

Surrendering control, improving outcomes: Learning an engineering of accompaniment

August 2, 2017

Advocacy, Bolivia, Mining Justice, Rural Justice

Riley Mulhern is the technical WASH advisor for a Bolivian NGO and a Mennonite Central Committee Seed worker addressing issues of contamination and water quality in rural indigenous communities in Oruro, Bolivi...

Restoring Compassion to the (Im)Migration Conversation

July 26, 2017

Advocacy, Mexico, Migration

Sara Ritchie-Helmuth is the Connecting People Coordinator with MCC Guatemala. The U.S. has historically honored and respected those who have journeyed to new lands—notable figures such as Christopher Columb...

The Food We Share

“Imagino un mundo … donde mujeres y [niñas] podamos caminar en las calles, trabajar, y convivir … sin miedo” (part 3)

“Yo quisiera que termine toda esa violencia” El Día de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer (part 2)

Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia Contra la Mujer (parte 1)

Creativity Confronts Climate Change on Colombia’s Coast

Weekly News Roundup, Sept 8, 2017

Spring Up Oh Well

Breaking the Silence: Addressing Gender-based and Sexual Violence in Bolivia

Weekly News Roundup, August 25, 2017

10 Lessons for World Humanitarian Day

Weekly News Roundup, August 18, 2017

Lessons in Tortilla Making from Nicaragua

Surrendering control, improving outcomes: Learning an engineering of accompaniment

Restoring Compassion to the (Im)Migration Conversation

Cuba: A case study on sanctions

A Call for Hope and Continued Peacebuilding from Colombia

A Transformative Agenda on Migration