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The Butterflies of Buenaventura (Part 4): No Peace Without Women

June 30, 2015

Advocacy, Colombia, Migration, Peace and Non-Violence

Photo by Natalio Pino Photo by Natalio Pino David Sulewski, together with his wife Tibrine da Fonesca, works with MCC in Quito, Ecuador, coordinating the Refugee Project, a ministry of the Mennonite ...

Weekly Round-Up, June 26

June 26, 2015

Advocacy, Uncategorized, Weekly Roundup

Putumayo River, Colombia. AnnaVogt Mexico takes lead to stem migrant wave, deports more Central Americans than the United States Between October and April, Mexico apprehended 92,889 Central Americans. In the s...

Press Release: UN Panel Says Peacekeeper Immunity Cannot Equal Impunity- Yet Report Fails to Address Haiti Cholera

June 25, 2015

Advocacy, Haiti, Peace and Non-Violence

Nepalese troops arrive to provide security for a food distribution at a police station. Port Au Prince, Haiti. Photo by Ben Depp.1/20/2010. UN Panel Says Peacekeeper Immunity Cannot Equal Impunity Repor...

The Butterflies of Buenaventura (Part 3): A Rising Tide of Tremendous Troublemakers

June 22, 2015

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

David Sulewski, together with his wife Tibrine da Fonesca, works with MCC in Quito, Ecuador, coordinating the Refugee Project, a ministry of the Mennonite Church in Quito to refugees, the majority of whom are f...

Weekly Round-up: June 19, Special Focus on Haiti

June 19, 2015

Haiti, Weekly Roundup

The Dominican Republic (D.R.) is poised to begin the controversial deportation of hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrant workers and, potentially, Dominicans of Haitian descent who have been stripped of their...

In Times of War and in Times of ‘Peace’: The Role of the U.S. Embassy in the Current Political Turmoil of Guatemala

June 11, 2015

Advocacy, Guatemala, Peace and Non-Violence

Guatemala streets. Photo: Anna Vogt By Tobias Roberts, MCC Guatemala. This article was originally published by the Huffington Post on June 1, 2015. The United States government is no stranger to meddling i...

The Butterflies of Buenaventura (Part 2): Our project in life is to be happy

June 9, 2015

Advocacy, Colombia, Migration, Peace and Non-Violence

David Sulewski, together with his wife Tibrine da Fonesca, works with MCC in Quito, Ecuador, coordinating the Refugee Project, a ministry of the Mennonite Church in Quito to refugees, the ...

Weekly Roundup, June 5

June 5, 2015

Advocacy, Uncategorized, Weekly Roundup

Latin America suffers toll of corruption Though hardly surprising, the cross contamination of corruption and crime suggests that stopping the bloodshed will take more than best practices and government reforms....

Injustice Outbreak

June 5, 2015

Advocacy, Haiti, Peace and Non-Violence

INFOGRAPHIC: How the U.N. is Failing Haitian Cholera Victims From HuffingtonPost Impact: "Haiti is a few months away from the five-year anniversary of the introduction of cholera because of the United Nations...

The Marlin Mine and Women’s Resistance

June 4, 2015

Advocacy, Guatemala, Mining Justice

Nancy and Crisanta By Nancy Sabas, the Connecting Peoples Coordinator for MCC Guatemala/El Salvador, originally from Honduras. Was it you who sent the miners? They violate the womb of Mother Earth They...

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)