By Katherine Maloney, Dominican Volunteer August 29th marked the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. Each year, this day reaffirms the global voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing, considers the possibility for a world without nuclear tests (and, further, without nuclear weapons) and renews the call for the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), […]
By Sister Margaret Mayce, OP Indigenous peoples account for 5 percent of the world’s population, while representing 15 percent of those living in poverty. As many as 33 percent of all people living in extreme rural poverty globally are from indigenous communities. Those figures are particularly alarming given the fact that so much of the […]
By Sr. Marcelline Koch, OP (Springfield, IL USA) “A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground.” I heard these words from Canadian indigenous women when I attended the 2016 U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. The women spoke for women throughout the world when they declared in […]
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