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„Durch Staatenlosigkeit werden Menschen, die leicht missbraucht werden können und denen ihre Rechte vorenthalten werden, für nationale Behörden unsichtbar. In diesem Sinne ist das Recht auf eine Staatsangehörigkeit eine Frage des Zugangs zum Schutz durch alle anderen Menschenrechte – sozusagen das Recht, Rechte zu haben“, sagte Peter Prove, Direktor der Kommission der Kirchen für internationale Angelegenheiten des ÖRK, nach einem regionalen Workshop zum Thema Geburtenregistrierung und geschlechtsdiskriminierendes Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht in Afrika, der vom ÖRK vom 11.-13. Mai in Addis Abeba (Äthiopien) abgehalten wurde.

“Statelessness renders people’s vulnerability to abuse and to denial of their rights invisible to national authorities. In this sense the right to a nationality is a threshold issue for access to protection of all other human rights - almost a 'right to have rights'”, said Peter Prove, director of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), following a regional training workshop on birth registration and gender discriminatory nationality laws in Africa, organized by the WCC in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 11–13 May.

The African continent bears witness to the tragic consequences of the manipulation of religion to incite violence. Yet it is also the home of untold instances of the power of religious leaders and actors to exert a positive influence, said panellists at an international meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, today.

Between 7-27 March, more than 100 images with the hash tag #7Weeks4Water were posted by Instagram users who joined the World Council of Churches (WCC) contest. Most of them told stories about water justice, illustrating the Lenten campaign “Seven Weeks for Water,” promoted by the WCC Ecumenical Water Network annually since 2008.

“The time has come for healing of memories,” said Fr Michael Lapsley, director of the Institute for Healing of Memories, South Africa, during an event held at the UN headquarters in New York, on 26 April. “This generation will not complete this task, but the next generation will be thankful for the effort.”

As the El Nino weather pattern challenges southern Africa, what is the role of churches in helping people realize their right to food and livelihood?

“Science and religion can provide solutions to poverty and injustice.” This was the theme of the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Alternatives for Poverty Reduction and Ecological Justice (SAPREJ) in Kampala, Uganda, on 4-7 April. The conference was organized by the Kyambogo University and the WCC economic and ecological justice programme.

Das Ökumenische Aktionsbündnis von und für Menschen mit Behinderungen des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK-EDAN) will sich entwickeln und zunehmend zu einer Quelle für Bildung und Dialog werden, erklärten die Programmverantwortlichen auf einer Tagung vom 10. bis 15. April in Kenia.

The World Council of Churches Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network (WCC-EDAN) will flourish and become a source of increasing education and dialogue, said the programme’s leaders at a meeting in Kenya on 10-15 April.

Die Anglikanische Gemeinschaft muss sich „der großen Krisen unserer Zeit bewusst“ sein, erklärte der Erzbischof von Canterbury, Justin Welby, in einer Ansprache als Vorsitzender an die Mitglieder des Anglikanischen Konsultativrates in Lusaka, Sambia.

The Anglican Communion needs to be “aware of the great crises of our times,” the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has said in a presidential address to members of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in Lusaka, Zambia.

The archbishop and primate of Hong Kong, Rev. Dr Paul Kwong, has been elected as the new chair of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).

A workshop in Tanzania created a “safe space” in which adolescents, church leaders, theologians, development practitioners and others could share their feelings and ideas about HIV response.

In April 2014, 276 girls were kidnapped by the extremist group Boko Haram from the Government Girls Secondary School in the town of Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria. Though 57 girls escaped, 219 are still missing.

Leaders and other representatives of Anglican churches throughout the world have gathered from 8 through 19 April for the 16th meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in Lusaka, Zambia. Participants are celebrating good news of faithful ministries within the communion, while exploring tensions among its provinces, especially over issues of sexual ethics on which Christians disagree.

Zu einer von den Vereinten Nationen am 6. April in New York veranstalteten Anhörung der Zivilgesellschaft haben Organisationen mit religiösem Hintergrund einen wesentlichen inhaltlichen Beitrag geleistet. Die Anhörung ist Teil der Vorbereitungen auf die UN-Tagung auf hoher Ebene über HIV/AIDS, die vom 8. bis 10. Juni ebenfalls in New York stattfindet.

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.

Dienste im Bereich der sexuellen und reproduktiven Gesundheit sollen nicht nur „jugendfreundlich“ sein, sondern auch „männer- und frauenfreundlich“ und sie sollen auch partizipatorisch gestaltet sein, damit heranwachsenden Männern und Frauen Informationen und Dienste zugänglich sind, die sie brauchen und wollen. Darüber waren sich die vom 24. bis 25. März am Workshop in Lomé, Togo, teilnehmenden Jugendlichen einig.

Sexual and reproductive health services must be not just "youth-friendly" but also “male- and female-friendly" and "youth participatory" so that young men and women gain access to the information and services they need and want, agreed adolescents who attended a workshop in Lomé, Togo on 24-25 March.

South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC) leaders have in their Easter message reiterated a pledge no longer to simply make statements and stand idly by while their leaders ignore their advice in the quest for peace in their troubled nation.