Feb 8, 2019 | Demilitarization, FORusa Feature, Human Rights, International, Nonviolence
By an Anonymous Zimbabwean What happens when known killers are promoted to the most senior positions in government, the military, and state-run offices? What happens when cruelty and coldness achieve the same social status as bravery and courage? Answer: the result...
Feb 5, 2019 | FORusa Feature, Human Rights, IFOR, International, News, Peacebuilding
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Leaders Demand that the U.N. Human Rights Council Mandate a Fact-Finding Mission to English-Speaking Cameroon Press Conferences to be held in three cities on February 7, 2019 PRESS CONTACTS: Geneva: Dr. Bernadette Ateghang, +49 176 8655 4127 New...
Dec 7, 2018 | Demilitarization, Events, FORusa Feature, Human Rights, Immigration Rights and Reform, Nonviolence, North America
Tear gas on children. Tens of thousands of immigrants imprisoned and awaiting deportation. Military troops instead of humanitarian aid. The denial of asylum to thousands of people fleeing rampant violence in their homelands. What we are experiencing is a moral crisis...
Oct 26, 2018 | FORusa Feature, General, Human Rights
Nadia Murad, now a United Nation Goodwill Ambassador on Trafficking of Persons, is the co-laureate of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2014, when she was 21, she and her neighbors in a predominantly Yazidi village in the Simjar mountainous area of Iraq were attacked by...
Oct 22, 2018 | Advocacy, FORusa Feature, Human Rights, Immigration Rights and Reform
As news that caravans of Honduran migrants are setting off from Honduras, traveling through Guatemala and Mexico on their way to the United States, we as U.S. people of faith affirm their right to travel safely and seek protection. Rooted in our faith traditions that...
Sep 21, 2018 | FORusa Feature, Human Rights, Nonviolence
In 1978 and 1979, Nicaraguans took up arms to depose a dictatorship, and I am forever thankful for their heroic actions and for getting rid of the 43-year-old Somoza tyranny. In 2018, people are protesting nonviolently to end a second dictatorship, which is made up by...
