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The Annual Canada-Colombia Free Trade Blog Post

July 16, 2013

Colombia, Country Programs, Mining Justice, Rural Justice

By Rebecca Sears, Advocacy Coordinator, MCC Colombia This is getting to be an annual thing: concern about the human rights and social impacts of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement with Colombia. (See previous b...

MCC and Haitian Partner Advocate at the United Nations and in Washington

July 10, 2013

Country Programs, Haiti, Rural Justice

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By Kristen and Wawa Chege, Policy Analysts and Advocacy Coordinators, MCC Haiti Photo - Advocacy in Washington, from left: Theo Sitther (MCC Washington DC), Jasmine Higgins (Church World Service), Kristen an...

Plague threatens Small-Scale Coffee Producers

June 24, 2013

Country Programs, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Rural Justice

Coffee time at INESIN, Rick Block on the far right By Rick Block is an agronomist working with MCC Mexico partner, INESIN, in Chiapas Mexico. He describes the situation of small farmers losing 75% of their co...

L@s Otr@s Dreamers

June 18, 2013

Country Programs, Mexico, Migration

By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Para leer en Español The “Dreamers” are young people who were brought to the United States by their parents as children and have grown-up in the US. There are an estimated...

Colombian Anti-narcotics Police destroy crops in church-MCC Project

June 12, 2013

Colombia, Country Programs, Rural Justice

One of the Choco farmers with a rice crop damaged by aerial fumigation By Rebekah Sears and Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Anti-narcotics police in Colombia have fumigated and destroyed rice and cacao...

The Advocacy of Faith: Learning in Colombia

June 4, 2013

Colombia, Country Programs, Rural Justice

A worship service in a church in Mampujan, Colombia By Anna Vogt, MCC Colombia Advocacy is the focus of the month! What is it, how does it work and who does it are all questions that we Seeders are wrest...

Doing Good

May 29, 2013

Country Programs, Haiti, Nicaragua, Rural Justice

By Marisa Clymer Shank, MCC Nicaragua I’ve read several articles this past week on “missions” and “development work”. Each one has made me think about how I define what I’m doing in Nicaragua and how others mi...

Ríos Montt – One Night in Prison

May 22, 2013

Country Programs, Guatemala, Rural Justice, Urban Peacebuilding

By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Policy Analyst/Educator Former Guatemalan Dictator, Ex-General Ríos Montt was sentenced to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity on May 10, 2013. How...

URGENT: Government Repression of the Mayan Ixil People of Nebaj, Guatemala

May 3, 2013

Country Programs, Guatemala, Rural Justice

May 2, 2013 - Tobias Roberts, an MCC service worker in Nebaj, is accompanying this community in this tense situation. The community is asking for international attention to ensure that the situation is resolve...

Who owns the Wind?

April 14, 2013

Country Programs, Mexico, Rural Justice

By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Para leer en Español I was confused. - Isn’t wind energy a GOOD thing?! An indigenous leader was passionately denouncing the the wind farms in his community. We were in a...

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)