On May 13, 2021, the military and police came to evict 85 Ava Guarani indigenous families and bulldoze their buildings to make way for the cultivation of soybeans for the international market. The land is [read…]
Sr. Michael Mary Nolan CSC A member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, president of the Institute Land, Labor and Citizenship-ITTC, and a lawyer for the Brazilian Bishops Conference for indigenous [read…]
Sr. Raquel Hernandez CMS A Comboni Missionary Sister from Mexico. Sr. Raquel has worked with the homeless, children, youth, and orphans in Glasgow, Scotland and Zambia, as well as with migrants and refugees in Mexico, [read…]
VIVAT Brazil made a statement to support Cimi Declaration on Indigenous Peoples and the Amazon. It expresses its solidarity with those affected by the burning of the Amazon Rainforest that destroyed lives of the creation [read…]
The 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference (UNCSC 2019) BUILDING INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES 26 – 28 August 2019. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA The 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference (UNCSC 2019) [read…]
VIVAT International was a part of the Joint Follow-up Report on Bolivia 2019, that focused on the integral protection network for girls, children, adolescents and women victims of sexual abuse and violence, trafficking and trafficking [read…]
VIVAT Brazil Follow-up Workshop was held at the Holy Trinity Missionary Center in Santo Amaro, São Paulo, 27-30 May 2019. The group consisted of select participants who were responsible for JPIC initiatives in the country as [read…]
From Monday, March 25 to 28, 2019, Fr. Daniel LeBlanc, OMI and I visited Tijuana, Mexico. The main purpose was to look more closely at the migrants and refugees situation on the border between the [read…]
VIVAT participated in the Fifty Seventh Session of the UN Commission on Social Development (CSocD57), that began on 11 February 2019 at UN Headquarters in New York. Social Protection Floors was at the center of [read…]
We Missionaries Servants of the Holy Spirit (Brazil North Province) express our solidarity with the families of the victims and the residents of Brumadinho-MG who suffer as a result of the tragedy that occurred on [read…]
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