Category: World Watch

Posted by Susan Gunn | Dec 1, 2022 | Winter 2023, World Watch

World Watch: It’s Time for Renewable Energy

Posted by Kathleen Kollman Birch | Sep 1, 2022 | Fall 2022, World Watch

Ukrainians Are Latest Wave of Refugees

Posted by Kathleen Kollman Birch | Jun 1, 2022 | Departments, Summer 2022, World Watch

WORLD WATCH ARTICLES

News from the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, a resource on issues of peace, social justice and integrity of creation, bringing Maryknoll’s mission experience into U.S. policy discussions.

World Watch: What’s Next for Asylum?

by Thomas Gould | Sep 5, 2023

This issue’s World Watch column by the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns discusses changes to protocols for asylum seekers and proposed legislation.

World Watch: Fresh Pain from Old Wounds

by Thomas Gould | Jun 1, 2023

The hardening authoritarianism of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has led to the exile of 222 prisoners, the imprisonment of Bishop Rolando Alvarez and many others, and “traitor” laws which strip dissenters of their citizenship.

World Watch: New Focus for Nuclear Disarmament

by Thomas Gould | Mar 1, 2023

The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns gives an update on the world’s progress — or lack of progress — toward nuclear disarmament.

World Watch: Human Rights Abuse in the Philippines

by Susan Gunn | Dec 1, 2022

The Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns calls attention to a history of human rights abuse in the Philippines.

World Watch: It’s Time for Renewable Energy

by Kathleen Kollman Birch | Sep 1, 2022

While the latest United Nations report on climate change is dire, renewable energy technology is more available and cheaper than ever.

Ukrainians Are Latest Wave of Refugees

by Kathleen Kollman Birch | Jun 1, 2022

In the first month alone, the Russian invasion of Ukraine drove an estimated 10 million people from their homes, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.