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World Food Day 2008

WCC General Secretary's Statement on the Global Food Crisis on the occasion of World Food Day - 16 October 2008

16 October 2008

General Secretary

Small-scale chicken farmer in Bangladesh. Photo: Peter Williams/WCC

WCC urges international institutions and governments to uphold the right to food

As "the global food crisis continues to unfold and impact on the most vulnerable in our societies," the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia has called on international institutions and governments to move into swift action.

16 October 2008

AGAPE Consultation: Guatemala Declaration

10 October 2008

AGAPE Consultation: Guatemala womens' statement

07 October 2008

Monika Lude (right) said she has reason to hope for Indonesia from the peace-building initiatives of at the grassroots. Photo: Peter Williams/WCC Click here for high resolution

Despite poverty, seeds of hope bud in Indonesia

By Maurice Malanes (*)

07 August 2008

Malethibela Lits'esane, one of many highland dwellers who had to make way for the dams, feels deceived by the authorities. Photo: Christian Johannessen/EWN Click here for high resolution

In the shadow of the dam, communities long for water

By Christian Johannessen (*)

09 June 2008

Food and faith

05 June 2008

General Secretary

Greed-driven global food crisis demands immediate church attention

With an estimated 850 million people suffering from hunger worldwide, nine out of ten of which live in developing countries, "the scandal of hunger demands the immediate attention of the churches", affirmed today in a statement the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia.

05 June 2008

The brunt of the crisis has been borne by women and children, like these Luhya women from Nyanza and the Western province, who had to flee the tea farms in the Central province where they used to work. They found shelter at the Tigoni camp near Limuru, in the outskirts of Nairobi, along with some 6,000 other refugees. Photo: Juan Michel/WCC

Kenya: Living Letters allow churches to affirm peace, grasp a complex conflict

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11 February 2008

Dar es Salaam Statement on Linking Poverty, Wealth and Ecology

Statement by the Alternative Globalisation Addressing People and Earth (AGAPE) Consultation on Linking Poverty, Wealth and Ecology: Africa Ecumenical Perspectives
07-09 November 2007, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

09 November 2007

WCC Programmes

African Women's Statement on Poverty, Wealth and Ecology

We, African women of faith, church leaders, theologians and activists, enriched by contributions from our sisters from Asia, Latin America, Europe and North America, have gathered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 05-06 November 2007 to analyse the links between poverty, wealth and ecology in Africa, in deepening study and theological reflection on neoliberal economic globalisation, as part of the Alternative Globalisation addressing People and Earth (AGAPE) process.

06 November 2007

WCC Programmes

The women of the international peasant farmers' organization Via Campesina staging a protest against "terminator" (sterile) seeds (2005)

Seeds of life - looking for alternatives to the dominant agrobusiness model

By Juan Michel (*)

24 January 2007

Just Trade

06 September 2006

Central Committee

The human rights situation in Papua, Indonesia

03 March 2006

Central Committee

Norwegian Church Aid

29 September 2003

Farmers, Food and Trade

During the week preceding the forthcoming Special Session of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the Draft Review of the Agreement on Agriculture, a

17 February 2003

World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August - 4 September 2002

04 September 2002

The atmosphere as global commons responsible caring and equitable sharing

A Justice Statement regarding Climate Change from The World Council of Churches (WCC)

Prepared in anticipation of the 6th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP6) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in The Hague, Netherlands, November 2000

01 November 2000