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“Act now, not later.” Dr David Barstow chose this message for a photo featured in the “100-day countdown” to a United Nations (UN) High Level Meeting on HIV in New York on 8-10 June.

In a 14 April letter, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit expressed the solidarity of the ecumenical fellowship with the people in Iceland, who have gathered in the streets in this last week to protest taxation that serves the already affluent and powerful.

Faith-based organizations presented significant input at a 6 April United Nations civil society hearing in New York City, a prelude to a UN High Level Meeting on HIV in New York on 8-10 June.

Le 6 avril, à New York, des organisations d’inspiration religieuse ont apporté une contribution importante à l’occasion d’une séance des Nations Unies avec des représentantes et représentants de la société civile, qui préludait à une réunion de haut niveau consacrée au VIH.

World Health Day, 7 April, is focusing this year on diabetes. The World Health Organization has released its first Global Report on Diabetes, which reveals that the number of adults living with diabetes has almost quadrupled since 1980 to 422 million, or 8.5% of the world’s adult population.

La Journée mondiale de la santé, le 7 avril, est consacrée cette année au diabète. L’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) vient de publier son premier rapport mondial sur le diabète, qui révèle que le nombre d’adultes diabétiques dans le monde a presque quadruplé depuis 1980: 422 millions de personnes sont concernées, soit 8,5 % de la population adulte mondiale.

Religious leaders and faith-based organizations are sending representatives this week to a United Nations civil society hearing in New York City, a prelude to a UN High Level Meeting on HIV in New York on 8-10 June.

On the world scale of countries with plentiful water, Brazil comes out in the top league. It has 12 percent of the world’s fresh water supplies. Yet Magali do Nascimento Cunha does not see her country scoring so well when it comes to water and sanitation distribution.

Dans le classement des pays qui disposent de beaucoup d’eau, le Brésil s’inscrit parmi les plus favorisés. Il dispose de 12% des réserves mondiales d’eau douce. Pourtant, pour Magali do Nascimento Cunha, la situation n’est pas aussi brillante des points de vue de la distribution d’eau et de la disponibilité d’installations sanitaires.

Almost forty years after the advent of HIV and AIDS, people around the world living with HIV still endure assaults on their dignity and basic human rights—from stigma and discrimination to denial of legal protection and even medical care.

Ecotheology, Climate Justice and Food Security was the focus for lively discussion at a consultation event hosted by the Volos Academy for Theological Studies, in Greece on 10-13 March.

Policymakers, programme managers, and service providers — including faith communities — must use more human rights norms and standards to guide a global response to HIV, said a statement submitted by the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, an ecumenical initiative of the WCC, to the Human Rights Council on 11 March in Geneva.

As summer approaches, the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (WCC-EAA) is now in full preparation for the 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016), hosted in Durban 18-22 July 2016.

Alors que l’été approche, l’Alliance œcuménique «agir ensemble» du Conseil œcuménique des Églises se prépare activement à la 21e Conférence internationale sur le sida (AIDS 2016) qui aura lieu à Durban du 18 au 22 juillet 2016.

On 8 February, the WCC convened a strategy meeting between principals and senior staff of the ACT Alliance, Anglican Alliance, Caritas Internationalis, Globethics, Lutheran World Federation and WCC, to discuss communication and collaboration in policy engagement, advocacy and action.

The WCC Ecumenical Water Network is inviting member churches and supporters to reflect on water during Lent. For many in the world, water is either taken for granted or in desperately short supply.

Le Réseau œcuménique de l’eau du COE invite ses Églises membres et les personnes qui le soutiennent à mener une réflexion l’eau pendant le carême. Pour beaucoup de gens dans le monde, l’eau est soit quelque chose qui va de soi, soit quelque chose dont on a désespérément besoin.

A 21 January World Economic Forum session on how food choices can become a catalyst for positive change became an opportunity for World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit to present “Ten Commandments” of food to the gathered business and political leaders.

Le 21 janvier 2016, à l’occasion d’une séance du Forum économique mondial consacrée à la manière dont les choix en matière de nourriture peuvent favoriser des changements positifs, le secrétaire général du COE, a présenté aux responsables financiers et politiques réunis à Davos «Dix commandements» relatifs à la nourriture.

Following the WCC/UN High Level Conference on the Refugee Crisis in Europe, which took place at the Ecumenical Centre Geneva on 18-19 January, a statement has been issued entitled "Europe’s Response to the Refuge Crisis, From Origin to Transit, Reception and Refuge, A Call for Shared Responsibility and Coordinated Action”.