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From 2020 to 2021, more than 50 million people were displaced due to weather events and faced risks of trafficking and even death as well as discrimination based on race and gender. This finding emerged from the report of Ian Fry, special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, to the 53rd session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva from 19 June-14 July.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a public statement that acknowledges the shared values that underpin both the declaration and the WCC, also marking its own 75th year in existence.

Church leaders from Canada, the Holy Land, and South Africa have addressed the central committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva on reconciliation, explaining that the process involving communities is not easy and needs hard work and responsibility.

Ein Webinar, das am 16. Juni vom Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK) in Zusammenarbeit mit Partnerorganisationen angeboten wird, stellt in den Mittelpunkt, wie Kinder, die oft als Opfer weltweiter Ungerechtigkeit übersehen werden, die Kraft in sich tragen, transformative Veränderungen auszulösen.

Le 16 juin, un webinaire coorganisé par le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), en collaboration avec ses partenaires, soulignera à quel point les enfants, qui sont souvent des victimes ignorées de l’injustice à l’échelle mondiale, ont le pouvoir inhérent d’amorcer un changement transformateur.

Un seminario web que tendrá lugar el 16 de junio y que organiza conjuntamente el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) en colaboración con otros socios, pondrá de relieve cómo los niños y las niñas, a menudo ignorados/as como víctimas de la injusticia mundial, poseen el poder inherente de impulsar un cambio transformador.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay expressed shock at the news of a brutal attack at a school in western Uganda by rebels linked to the Islamic State Group, on 16 June.

Lasting friendships and gleaning a wealth of knowledge are the abiding memory of students every year who graduate from the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey outside Geneva.

As a search continued for missing migrants after a fishing boat capsized off the coast of Greece, the World Council of Churches (WCC) conveyed prayers to the families of victims, and to the churches in Greece and elsewhere that are responding.

A webinar on 16 June, co-organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC) in collaboration with partners, will highlight how children, often overlooked as victims of global injustice, possess the inherent power to ignite transformative change.

On 30 June, the World Council of Churches and Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe will host a conversation “remembering all victims of Whiteness, with a particular focus on “The Criminalisation of Blackness and the Toxicity of ‘Greener Pastures".