Country Programs – Page 26

After 25 years, tide begins to turn for conscientious objectors in Colombia

February 17, 2015

Advocacy, Colombia, Peace and Non-Violence

Photo: Mario Cardozo de ACOOC “Pray, pray fervently that God will bring his favour, and that my case will become a door that many young people can walk through as well,” Colombian Reinaldo Aguirre pleaded t...

ANADESA: A community organization promoting education and development in Santiago Atitlan

February 12, 2015

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Rural Justice, Uncategorized

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Mining Resistance: Lessons from Guatemala and Mexico

February 4, 2015

Advocacy, Guatemala, Mexico, Mining Justice

Barite mine near Nebaj Photo Anna Vogt Tobias Roberts is an MCC service worker in Nebaj, Guatemala Grassroots advocacy work in Central America isn´t usually a job that yields many astounding success sto...

Action Alert: Mass Deportation in the Dominican Republic

January 30, 2015

Action Alerts, Haiti, Migration

Amnesty International released this Urgent Action on 29 January concerning a mass deportation in the Dominican Republic. "On 27 January, 51 people, including 30 Dominican-born children, some of their mothers a...

Creation Care and Faith: Reflections on the People’s Summit

January 29, 2015

Advocacy, Bolivia, Climate Change

Elizabeth Hostetter works with the Red UMAVIDA and Elizabeth Vincent with the Center for Ecology and the Andean People (CEPA). Both are friend organizations of Mennonite Central Committee Bolivia. During the s...

On being a visitor

January 26, 2015

Advocacy, Mexico, Rural Justice

Photo: Anna Vogt Miriam Harder is the regional coordinator of MCC Latin America’s work in conservation agriculture and is seconded to Otros Mundos, a local organization in Chiapas. She lives three hours fr...

Stitched History

January 20, 2015

Advocacy, Colombia, Peace and Non-Violence

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...

Bridge-Building in Haiti: Creating Spaces for Dialogue

January 11, 2015

Advocacy, Haiti, Peace and Non-Violence

Katharine and Ted Oswald are the policy analyst and advocacy coordinators for MCC in Haiti. This article was originally published on the Ottawa Office Notebook. In July 2014, after traversing a swift-flowing r...

Bearing Witness in 2014

December 22, 2014

Advocacy, Country Programs, Peace and Non-Violence

What has been will be again, What has been done will be done again; There is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 None of what the insightful and passionate contributors to this blog have written abo...

Bike Reflections

December 19, 2014

Advocacy, Colombia, Peace and Non-Violence

Godswill Muzarabani is from from Zimbabwe and is serving with the Seed program in Cali, Colombia. This post was originally published on the Seed Colombia blog. I am glad my friend introduced to me to one of C...

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)

After 25 years, tide begins to turn for conscientious objectors in Colombia

ANADESA: A community organization promoting education and development in Santiago Atitlan

Mining Resistance: Lessons from Guatemala and Mexico

Action Alert: Mass Deportation in the Dominican Republic

Creation Care and Faith: Reflections on the People’s Summit

On being a visitor

Stitched History

Bridge-Building in Haiti: Creating Spaces for Dialogue

Bearing Witness in 2014

Bike Reflections

Cuba: A case study on sanctions

A Call for Hope and Continued Peacebuilding from Colombia

A Transformative Agenda on Migration