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Meaningful participation by women in a conflict resolution and peace-building promotes a more sustainable peace, a panel discussion with women peace-makers concluded, after the screening of a documentary on the 2015 “Women Cross the DMZ” initiative.

Pour les 380 000 Palestiniens qui vivent à Jérusalem-Est, la vie quotidienne est souvent entachée d'inégalités dans des domaines aussi variés que le logement, les services de santé, la garde d'enfants et même le ramassage des ordures. Bien que les Palestiniens représentent 39% de la population de la ville, il existe de nombreuses disparités dans les services qu'ils reçoivent.

Jad Issac a tendance à penser avec les chiffres. S’agissant des territoires de Cisjordanie situés aux abords de Jérusalem et de la vallée du Jourdain, aussi connus sous le nom de zone E1, J. Issac fait face à un chiffre très élevé: une perte de 2 milliards de dollars par an pour les Palestiniens et Palestiniennes contre la possibilité de gagner net le même montant, de rembourser des dettes et d’aider à son tour des pays plus pauvres. Cette somme astronomique correspond à des opportunités touristiques perdues en raison des difficultés d’accès à la zone E1, à la vallée du Jourdain et à la mer Morte, d’après l’étude sur le coût économique de l’occupation menée par l’institut de recherches appliquées de Jérusalem.

For the 380,000 Palestinians that live in East Jerusalem, daily life is often marred by inequalities related to everything from housing, health services, childcare, and even garbage pickup. Even though Palestinians make up 39% of the city, there are many discrepancies in the services they receive.

Dr Jad Issac tends to think in numbers. When it comes to the land in the West Bank on the outskirts of Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley—known simply as E1— Issac is weighing a stark figure: a loss of $2 billion a year for Palestinians versus the ability to net the same amount of revenue, pay off debts, and, in turn, help poorer countries.  The astronomical figure amounts to lost tourism opportunities due to the lack of access to E1, Jordan Valley, and the Dead Sea—as per the Economic Cost of the Occupation Study done by the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem.

Alexander Brock, an international development practitioner from Ireland, recently returned from a deployment with the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel. On 1 March, he gave an eyewitness account of what it’s like to monitor human rights in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. He was part of a group of 27 ecumenical accompaniers from all over the world. 

In the search for true repentance and liberation, Africa needs to acknowledge its complicity in slave trade, says Rev. Fidon Mwombeki, general secretary of the All Africa Conference of Churches.

A new report offering an overview of the human rights situation in West Papua found little progress in decreasing human rights violations in 2022 and calls for reducing violence and promoting accountability in 2023.

Shamsa Abubakar Fadhil, a recipient of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity, is a household name in peace building and community mobilisation in the Kenyan coastal region.

Hanna Barag, une Israélienne qui se décrit comme une «diplomate des droits de la personne», observe depuis plusieurs décennies ce que subissent les Palestinien-ne-s qui passent par les points de contrôle. Pour cette membre de l’organisation Machsom Watch, en un mot, c’est «déshumanisant».

Hanna Barag, an Israeli woman who has described herself as a “human rights diplomat” for the organization Machsom Watch, has spent decades observing what happens to Palestinians at checkpoints, and it’s—in a word—“de-humanizing,” she says.

As South Sudan readied to welcome visiting world Christian leaders, church officials in the country articulated a range of expectations, including a strong call for peace and reconciliation.

Can ecumenical peacebuilding guide the way towards shared interests in the Russia-Ukraine war, which exemplifies the clash of fundamentally different value systems, ethical frameworks, and historical narratives? Peter Prove, director of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs reflects on the issue in the inaugural edition of Geneva Policy Outlook, a new online publication.

A group of Ecumenical Accompaniers completed their service in Palestine and Israel, handing their ministry over to the next wave, and celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at the same time.

Leaders from The Clewer Initiative, the national work of the Church of England to combat modern slavery, visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 30-31 January to discuss current and future collaboration.