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Addressing sexual violence: ecumenical team to meet with church and humanitarian partners in West Africa

The World Council of Churches (WCC), along with Action by Churches Together (ACT) International and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) are sending an ecumenical team to West Africa to follow up on allegations in a recent confidential report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Save the Children UK on sexual violence and exploitation of refugee children in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

La violencia sexual: un equipo ecuménico visita a las iglesias y organizaciones humanitarias de África occidental

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), Acción Conjunta de las Iglesias (ACT International) y la Federación Luterana Mundial (FLM) enviarán un equipo ecuménico a África Occidental para investigar acerca de las denuncias de violencia y explotación sexual de niños refugiados en Sierra Leona, Liberia y Guinea que constan en un informe confidencial redactado recientemente por el Alto Comisionado para los Refugiados (ACNUR) y Save the Children UK.

WCC executive committee meets in Denmark Opportunity to strengthen and increase ecumenical cooperation

The forthcoming meeting of the executive committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) will be held in Nyborg, Denmark, 19-22 February at the invitation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark and of the Church of Denmark's Council on International Relations. It is the first time since the WCC's eighth assembly, in Harare, Zimbabwe, 1998, that the WCC executive committee is meeting outside Geneva.