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03.10.2018 Water: Source of Life – Human Right and Europe’s responsibility
Final Statement of the International Workshop of Justice and Peace Europe, Barcelona, 28-30 September: Water is the source of life on earth. We need to take care of it as individual persons and through our public institutions at each political level. Access to clean water and sanitation is a human right and Christians are invited to engage for its full recognition by states and international organisations
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14.02.2018 A Hard Border would do Great Harm
“A hard Border would do great harm.” This is the message 25 General Secretaries of the European Justice and Peace Commission took home from their annual meeting from 9 – 11 February in Northern Ireland. Read the full statement
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12.02.2018 Turkey's military action in North Syria is contrary to international law
Statement of the Executive Committee of Justice and Peace Europe in the context of Turkey's military action in North Syria. Read the full statement.
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07.12.2017 Multinational companies and Human Rights
- Towards an international legally binding instrument - Statement of Justice an Peace Europe on the occasion of Human Rights Day (10 December). Click here to read the full Statement.
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30.10.2017 Overcoming fear to defend human rights
Justice and Peace Europe is committed to the respect and the promotion of human rights so that each person and each community can live with dignity. Without any hesitation we claim the universal character of these rights and adopted the following statement at our General Assembly on 25 September 2017 in Taizé/France. Read the Statement
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03.10.2017 Justice and Peace Europe: a new focus on the care of Creation
Delegates from 21 Commissions of Conference of European Justice & Peace Commissions (Justice and Peace Europe) came together from 22 - 24 September of 2017 for their annual International Workshop. Their meeting took place, appropriately in view of the theme “Spiritual Roots and Political Fruits: Pilgrimage for Justice & Peace and Care of Creation”, in Taizé, where the ecumenical Christian community welcomed and supported them in their deliberations also with their prayers. Read the full Final Statement of the International Workshop.
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27.09.2017 European Justice and Peace Commissions Unite in solidarity for Care of Creation
The Conference of European Justice and Peace Commissions is promoting care for Creation as part of its international workshop and general assembly meeting. The gathering, which is themed “On Spiritual Roots and Political Fruits,” is a pilgrimage for justice and peace and care of Creation, 22-25 September. It took place at the Taizé monastic community. Read the full text of the press release
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18.09.2017 On Spiritual Roots and Political Fruits
Fifty years after the creation of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the European Conference of Justice and Peace Commissions (Justice and Peace Europe) will hold its annual meeting in Taizé/France from 22 to 25 September 2017. 80 delegates from more than twenty national commissions will be welcomed by Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich from Luxembourg, the president of Justice and Peace Europe, and by Brother Alois, the prior of the Taizé Community. Read the full press release.
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06.07.2017 Nuclear Disarmament: Seeking Human Security
Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich, president of Justice and Peace Europe, and Bishop Oscar Cantú, chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, issued today a declaration arguing for “the total elimination of nuclear weapons.” Entitled “Nuclear Disarmament: Seeking Human Security,” the declaration was issued to coincide with the conclusion of a meeting hosted this week by the United Nations “to negotiate a legally binding treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.” Read the full text of the joint declaration.
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29.05.2017 Commission for Justice and Peace of the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land: The question of "normalization"
What is normalization in the Israel-Palestine context? At its most basic level, “normalization” is the establishment of relations with the State of Israel, its organisms and citizens “as if” the current situation is a normal state of affairs, thus ignoring ongoing war, occupation and discrimination, or consciously obscuring or marginalizing them. Read the full document.
