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October 13, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala

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Weekly Roundup: October 10th

October 10, 2014

Advocacy, Weekly Roundup

How Will Haiti Reckon With The Duvalier Years? Instead of a trial, we’ll have a funeral. What will it look like? Who will speak, and what will they say? In a tweet, Haiti’s President, Michel Martelly, made clea...

Hoping against hope: Peace Day

September 19, 2014

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

Jhonatan, a conscientious objector in Colombia, was released from jail this week. Photo credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams Colombia. By Anna Vogt, a service worker in MCC Colombia currently working with Justa...

Drought, food security and migration in Central America

September 17, 2014

Climate Change, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration, Nicaragua, Rural Justice

By Elizabeth Scambler, MCC Latin America's Disaster Management Coordinator, based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Central America is seeing one of the worst droughts in decades. Images in the media are filled with ...

MCC responds to child migrant crisis

September 11, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration, Nicaragua

In Guatemala, MCC is providing comforters, blankets, hygiene kits and funding to a home run by Missionaries of Saint Charles Scalabrinians, which provides temporary shelter to migrants such as Nanci Adair Gali...

Action Alert: Conscientious Objector Detained in Colombia

September 9, 2014

Action Alerts, Advocacy, Colombia, Peace and Non-Violence

From Justapaz, partner of MCC Colombia: (Para leer en español) On behalf of Colombian conscientious objector Jhonatan Vargas, student and youth leader of the Central Four Square Church of Barrancabermeja, Santa...

Impunity and forgiveness

August 22, 2014

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

By Anna Vogt, a service worker in MCC Colombia currently working with Justapaz, a Mennonite organization working for justice, peace and non-violent action in Colombia. Originally posted at: thellamadiaries.word...

Understanding the child migrant surge

August 20, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration

US/Mexico Border. Wikimedia Commons. By Chris Hershberger-Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City. Starting in late June, U.S. and international media became...

Oh mother, did you just leave your children?

August 13, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration

By Nancy Sabas, the Connecting Peoples Coordinator for MCC Guatemala/El Salvador, originally from Honduras. Growing up in Honduras, I remember hearing to my mother bring up the idea of migrating to work in the...

Peace on the Hill – Above and Beyond Peace Accords

August 7, 2014

Advocacy, Colombia, Peace and Non-Violence

Charissa Zehr, a Legislative Associate for International Affairs at the MCC U.S. Washington Office, writes on truth and justice in the Colombia Peace Accords process....

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)