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Trade for people - not people for trade, is WCC call

Trade should be for the benefit of people and people should not be sacrificed for the sake of trade. That was a key affirmation in the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee statement on just trade, which calls on the churches "to encourage their governments to continue working for a new multilateral trade mechanism, with a new set of multilateral trade rules which are just and democratic".

WCC seeks end to extrajudicial killings in the Philippines

The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee today condemnedextrajudicial killings in the Philippinesand called onthe government of the Philippines to disband "death squads", private militias and paramilitary forces operating with impunity in the country.

Haiti: Hope depends on human security say churches

A high-level meeting to urge the strengthening and continued presence of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti was held on 14 July in New York, hosted by the Canadian government in collaboration with the UN liaison office of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and World Vision.

Small arms, big issue for the churches

For five years since the first UN global conference on small arms in 2001, hopes around the world were that this year's follow-up conference, which concluded on 7 July, would find new ways to contain the intercontinental epidemic of guns and gun violence.