Statement of International Catholic Organizations regarding the violent government crackdowns against dissenting citizens of Sri Lanka – 05th August 2022
We, the undersigned International Catholic Organisations, are extremely concerned about the current violent crackdowns by the Sri Lankan government against the citizens of Sri Lanka who are dissenting against corruption and violation of democracy. It has come to our attention that Ranil Wickremasinghe, who succeeded the ousted President Gotabaya Rajapakse over allegations of corruption and mismanagement of the economic crisis, has adopted repressive machinery against peaceful protesters who had been occupying Galle Face since April 2022. Ranil Wickremesinghe is also widely perceived to be a protector of the corrupt regime of Rajapakses and he himself has various allegations of mismanaging public resources.
His government has weaponized the process of law against peaceful protesters with several key activists of the protest movement taken under custody under public property and emergency regulations. Fr. Jeevantha Pieris, Venerable Koswatte Mahanama Thero, Ceylon Teachers’ Union General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Attorney at Law Nuwan Bopege, Journalist Tharindu Uduwaragedara and Inter-University Students’ Federation Convener Wasantha Mudalige are among the key activists targeted by the government.
Issuing a statement on 31st July 2022, 1640 Sri Lankan Catholic priests, sisters and brothers have already condemned several violations of human rights of the protesters including physical assault, obstruction to receiving legal assistance and raid of Fr. Jeevantha’s church in Rathnapura diocese.
It is distressing to hear that during the past few weeks several unidentified bodies have been washed into the coastal areas of Colombo city, the capital of Sri Lanka. Especially considering the human rights record of the current President who has allegations of administering torture chambers during the late 80s.
The people of Sri Lanka are going through the worst economic crisis since independence in 1948. Access to food, medicine, schools, livelihoods and basic utilities is severely restricted in the country with no credible financial assistance. It is in this context that people have taken to the streets to demand accountability and justice for the economic crisis. Protests are widespread with massive public participation and approval.
Therefore it is imperative that the government of Sri Lanka abides by the law and respects the human rights protected in the Constitution of the country, including the right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression. Considering the gross violations of human rights by the current government headed by Ranil Wickremasinghe, it is the duty of the international community to stand with the people of Sri Lanka without isolating their demands for democracy and accountability.
Therefore as concerned international Catholic organisations,
We request our national member movements and individual members to contact their local political representatives and national political/Human Rights bodies and bring their attention to these atrocities and express their dismay to the Sri Lankan embassies/government.
We request the Holy See to convey the concerns to the Sri Lankan government through diplomatic channels.
We request International lending agencies and bilateral development partners to impose conditionalities on human rights violations.
We request the United Nations Human Rights Council to send a special envoy to investigate the situation and take necessary actions.
Endorsed by,
International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS/MIEC) Pax Romana
International Young Christian Workers (IYCW/JOCI)
International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs (ICMICA/MIIC) Pax Romana
World Movement of Christian Workers (WMCW/MMTC)
Pax Romana begins another milestone from the Centennial Celebration Closing ceremony
On July 23, 2022, during the closing ceremony of the Pax Romana Centennial celebration, the Movement symbolically set the tone for a “Curtain-raiser for the next milestone: mobilizing Catholic students and professionals for a peaceful, just, inclusive and a green world”. It is worth noting that during the year-long celebrations, the Movement – IMCS Pax Romana and ICMICA – had been embarking on several projects and implementing activities at all levels.
The Centennial presentation on projects and activities
Thus, Pope Francis in his letter to the Pax Romana movements on 22 July 2022, called on leaders to work for the spread of the Gospel, its values of justice, peace and solidarity, and to be agents of social change. The Pope also acknowledged the contribution to the Church that the two Pax Romana movements, the International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS) and the International Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs (ICMICA) have made to the Church over the century since the foundation of the IMCS in 1921
From the local, and regional to the international, we joined hands to celebrate our identity and impact within our communities and appreciate everyone. This was reiterated by the President of ICMICA Pax Romana, Prof Ana Maria Bidegain that through the years, Pax Romana has resisted and reorganized and continues to strengthen its faith and spiritual journey and engaging about 70 to 80 national federations from Africa, Latin America to Europe and Asia-Pacific. With our presence, we are committed as men and women and seek to have an impact on public policies and cultural changes needed to challenges in our communities as we walk and work together
ICMICA Pax Romana message by Prof Ana Maria Bidegain
While the world is evolving, Pax Romana is also developing new frontiers to continue working together with members and National Movements across the world. Hence, it is prudent to see and know that you are with us on this journey as we begin another milestone towards mobilizing Catholic students and professionals for a peaceful, just, inclusive and a green world. IMCS Pax Romana President Ravi Tissera invited every student to continue to engage and be willing to collaborate through networking, training and leading community development. “Let’s bring our ideas, talents, resources and networks to transform Pax Romana to the next version, so Pax Romana will continue her mission for another 100 years”. This also reflects the call to duty to message from Pope Francis
IMCS Pax Romana message by Ravi Tissera
“Dear young friends, at this stage of your lives, you have much energy and a plethora of opportunities and choices before you. Yet, while you have many wishes and interests that you want to explore, not all of you live in environments that easily facilitate the pursuit of your dreams or that help you to grow in faith. Support one another in the life of faith and the pursuit of virtue” – Pope Francis, Letter to Pax Romana July 22, 2022
Fr Douglas MARCOUILLER SJ, Vicarius ad Tempus of the Jesuit Curia offered the Centennial blessings to all students and professionals
Centennial blessing by Fr Douglas MARCOUILLER SJ, Vicarius ad Tempus
“To all students and professionals gathered here and around the world, “May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord shine divine light upon you, and be gracious to you. May the Risen Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace” (Numbers 6: 24-26)
And may Almighty God bless all of you, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Pope Francis to Pax Romana: Be agents of social change
In a letter to the Pax Romana movements on 22 July 2022, Pope Francis has called on leaders to work for the spread of the Gospel, its values of justice, peace and solidarity, and to be agents of social change.
The pope also acknowledged the contribution to the Church that the two Pax Romana movements, the International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS) and the International Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs (ICMICA) have made to the Church over the century since the foundation of the IMCS in 1921.
VATICAN CITY, VATICAN – MAY 22: Pope Francis waves to the faithful as he leaves St. Peter’s Square (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
To the Members of the International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS-MIEC) Pax Romana and the International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs (ICMCA-MIIC) Pax Romana
I send prayerful good wishes to the students and professionals celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the International Movement of Catholic Students – Pax Romana. Your Movement received official recognition by the Holy See in 1921, and I am pleased that you have maintained your spirituality of action and fulfilled your mission of addressing the spiritual and material needs of young people in tertiary educational institutions throughout the world. I am likewise appreciative of the contribution you have made within the Church over this period, and for the notable fruits that have been borne in nurturing leaders and supporting the faithful in promoting Catholic social leaching in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Your vital apostolate encourages young people to take the lead in striving for a more just social order within their countries.
Over the past Century, Pox Romana has enabled many university students and young professionals to grow in their faith and to work for the spread or the Gospel and its values of justice, peace and solidarity. I encourage you to continue to be agents of social change, steadfast in your efforts to help build a more inclusive, harmonious and sustainable world. Be ever ready to give the best of yourselves in meeting the challenges that lie ahead, attentive to the signs of the times and committed to the service of the poor, the vulnerable and the underprivileged.
Dear young friends, at this stage of your lives, you have much energy and a plethora of opportunities and choices before you. Yet, while you have many wishes and interests that you want to explore, not all of you live in environments that easily facilitate the pursuit of your dreams or that help you to grow in faith. Support one another in the life of faith and the pursuit of virtue. In a world of widespread inequality, may you be mindful too of your fellow students and peers in so many parts of our world whose dreams arc threatened by war, injustice, and political, economic and ecological crises. Keep them in your prayers and support them by works of practical solidarity.
As you know, young Catholics are preparing to meet in Lisbon in August 2023 for World Youth Day, with the motto, “Mary arose and went with haste” (Lk 1:39), I look forward to seeing many of you there! I urge you to “arise” like Mary, and work for the change you want to experience within your communities. Demonstrate and spread the values of “Respect and Integrity, Trust and Solidarity. Diversity and Inclusivity, Transparency and Accountability” that your Strategic Plan highlights. In this way, your service to the liberating message or the Gospel wall be effective and will bear tasting fruit.
With these sentiments, I send my blessing to all the members of lMCS and ICMICA, I ask you, please, to pray for me, and for peace in our world, that young people everywhere may enjoy a future filled with hope and joy.
Call for Proposals and Papers-“Rethinking Democracy” – Pax Romana Journal 2021
“Rethinking Democracy” – Pax Romana Journal 2021
Call for Proposals and Papers
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and exacerbated a growing crisis in democratic forms of organizing. Over the past year, people have taken to the streets in countries across the globe, including Brazil, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Nigeria, and the United States to call for more justice and democracy in their countries. At the sametime, the pandemic opens up new questions with the rise of vaccine nationalism, the global inequality of distribution of medical supplies, rising levels of unemployment and economic inequalities, and the failure of governments to effectively coordinate with each other in public health. The questions of democractic participation also find parallels within the church, as Catholics reflect on the meaning and value of synodality and lay participation in decision making.
In light of these challenges, the 2021 Pax Romana Journal invites you to submit journal articles on rethinking democracy in the pandemic and beyond. Possible topics include:
human Rights and democracy;
country specific situations;
the Catholic church and democracy;
youth/student participation in democracy;
racial justice and democracy;
faith, church reform, synodality, and lay participation;
democracy, good governance and global governance;
climate change and ecological justice;
the role of social movements, NGOs, and Pax Romana groups,
The Pax Romana Journal is an interdisciplinary, international, and intergenerational journal of IMCS and ICMICA. Submissions are welcome from university students, young professionals, and intellectuals from any field of research (medicine, law, theology/spirituality, sociology, economics, political science, etc).
Proposals and final papers may be submitted in English, French or Spanish.
Submission of Proposals
July 1, 2021: Those wanting to submit a paper are invited to submit a 250-500 word proposal by July 1st, 2021.
The proposal should summarize the paper’s argument and identify the main sources used. The editorial committee will evaluate the abstracts in a blind review process.
You will be informed by 15 July whether your proposal is approved.
1 October, 2021: Final papers are due 1 October 2021. They should be 2,500 – 5,000 words.
The editorial team will make the final evaluation of papers and return to authors any proposals for revision by 1 December.
Author Guidelines
All submissions can be in English, French, Spanish
No more than three authors for each paper submission.
Along with the submissions, participants should provide their full name, date of birth, address, contact number and email as applicable
authors are allowed to use any standards footnotes format for reference,
Double space pages and indent each paragraph,
Content should be Critical, Non-Romanticized, Non-Abusive
All submissions will be judged on originality, content, theme and creative presentation
Each entry must be original in concept, design, and execution and may not violate any copyright laws; off topic discussions shall be disqualified and strictly no plagiarism is allowed
Pax Romana (IMCS and ICMICA) shall use the content once submitted
Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these rules and to agree to be bound by them when entering the competitions.
Solidarity With the Students and civilian leaders of Myanmar
It is with a great sense of duty and concern that we the International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs and the International Movement of Catholic Students condemn in strongest terms the recent attacks on due process, justice and democracy in Myanmar.
Eleven years ago, the nation moved from military rule to democracy after ruling the country for decades. On early hours of Monday, 1st February, 2021 the military organized coup took place and the elected leaders of the people, especially the top echelon of the NLD leadership have been arrested and Aung San Suu Kyi taken to unknown locations for detention, under unsubstantiated charge of the violation of the country’s import-export laws.
It is important to alert the military that the world is watching most especially the young people of Myanmar whose future and destiny they are toying with.
We strongly advocate for a round table dialogue between the military high ranking officials, led by the commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing, and the Civilian Leaders, to return power to the civilian leaders and call on the Civilian Leaders to address the concerns of the military if any.
We appeal to the students, youth and women of Myanmar to maintain peace and harmony as their plight is a global concern and we won’t rest until normalcy returns to Myanmar.
We call on the international community to intervene in this constitutional violation of the rights of democratically elected leaders so that participatory democracy is returned to the people of Myanmar.
Sign:
International Teams of IMCS Pax Romana and ICMICA Pax Romana
Pax Romana Statement on Mass Arrests of Pro-Democracy Figures in Hong Kong
Pax Romana Statement on Mass Arrests of Pro-Democracy Figures in Hong Kong
The mass arrests of activists and human rights defenders in Hong Kong this past weekrepresents a serious attack on human rights and democracy.
As the two international movements in Pax Romana, IMCS and ICMICA are particularly concerned by the arrest ofJohn (Jack) Clancey,a lawyer, chair of the Asian Human Rights Commission, and a former chaplain to our movements. We are happy to know that Jack has been granted bail and we pledge to support him in the weeks ahead.
We stand in solidarity with Jack and with all the people of Hong Kong in this difficult time.These attacks come as the promise of participatory democracy is eroding not only in Hong Kong, but also in many other parts of the world as we saw with the failed coup in the United States this week. As movements, we continue to believe in the values of human rights and participatory democracy.
We urge our members, groups of Catholic students, professionals and intellectuals, and others friends to learn more about the human rights situation in Hong Kong and to reach out to their political leaders to take immediate action to put pressure on the Chinese government to abide by human rights norms as established in international law and to drop the charges on the human rights activists.
Ravi Tissera – International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS) Pax Romana
Kevin Ahern, PhD, on behalf of the International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs (ICMICA)
William Nokrek – Asia Pacific Secretariat, International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS)
Fasika Lachore Laba – International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS Pax Romana) Pan African Coordination, Nairobi Kenya
Eirini Freri – European Coordination (JECI-MIEC) International Young Catholic Students- International Movement of Catholic Students
Pax Romana Journal 2020
IMCS and ICMICA are pleased to present the latest issue of the Pax Romana Journal,an intercultural, international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational review.
This year’s theme isBeyond COVID-19: A Comprehensive Perspective.The issue includes articles and creative works from sixteen contributors coming from ten countries (Bangladesh, Canada, Hungary, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mauritius (Chile), Mexico, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines). The authors in this volume bring a range of experiences, expertise, and ideas. Some are university students; others intellectuals with doctoral degrees. Some are members and chaplains of our movements; others are friends and collaborators who responded to our open call for papers. We hope that these diverse papers can contribute in some way to the type of dialogue and social friendship that is urgently needed today.
The Pax Romana Journal is an interdisciplinary annual publication for literature reviews, research and opinion pieces on specific contemporary social issues. Key themes, include but are not limited to: Human rights; Democracy, good governance and global governance; Themes on the United Nations agenda; Faith, church reform, synodality, and lay participation; Youth participation and advocacy; Climate change and ecological justice; Intercultural/interreligious dialogue.
It is published jointly between ICMICA and IMCS.
Each of these themes is approached from the perspective of Catholic Social Teaching with the goal of promoting peace, justice and mercy, in service of the common good of the poor and the Earth
Solidarity Statement by The 2020 IMCS Pax Romana Global Advocacy Training Participants To #EndSARS Protesters In Nigeria
Solidarity Statement by The 2020 IMCS Pax Romana Global Advocacy Training Participants To #EndSARS Protesters In Nigeria
We, the 2020 International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS) Pax Romana Global Advocacy Training Participants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa have followed with interest the #EndSARS Protest by the Nigeria Youths, calling on their government to end Police Brutality, Reform the Police, end marginalization, serve justice to families and victims of police brutality and guarantee a good governance that inspires hope, vision and aspirations among the young people.
On the 20th October, 2020, the Nigeria Government instead of listening to the legitimate demands her future generation have placed before them, they unleashed heavily armed military men on peaceful and unarmed protesters which led to the killings of the peaceful protesters and metamorphosed to social unrest even as they raised up the nation’s flag with chants of national anthem.
We call on the Nigeria Government led by President Mohammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Army and all the stakeholders to rise and stop the killings of innocent peaceful #EndSarsNow Protesters for no nation on earth should be found with political will to wipe from the earth surface her future generation. The government should recognize that violence begets violence.
We call on young people of Nigeria to follow the spirit of Peace and turn away from any form of violence continue to and seek more democratic and legal processes in their struggles for Justice.
Finally, we call upon the international community to recognize such processes in their own countries and respond meaningfully to the sufferings of victims of bad policy in the name of security and law.
Signatories:
Name of the Signatory
Organization
Joseph Nyamayaro
National Movement for Catholic Students (NMCS), Zimbabwe
Tinotenda Wakabikwa
National Movement for Catholic Students (NMCS), Zimbabwe
Mpho Mehlape
Association of Catholic Tertiary Students (ACTS), South Africa
Zoleka Shangase
Association of Catholic Tertiary Students (ACTS), South Africa
Gmafumi Timothy Mabinkun
International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS) Ghana Federation
Marvis Idemudia Ehigiator
International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS) Ghana Federation
Tuntufye Simwimba
IMCS Southern Africa Sub Regional Coordination
Nwalie Chinwe Maureen
Nigeria Federation of Catholic Students (NFCS)
Clinton Boniface Onoyima
Nigeria Federation of Catholic Students (NFCS)
Ogbonnah Francis Ugochukwu
Nigeria Federation of Catholic Students (NFCS)
Chukwu Stephen Chukwuebuka
Nigeria Federation of Catholic Students (NFCS)
Orbum Joseph Iorfa
Nigeria Federation of Catholic Students (NFCS)
Peter Uchenna
Nigeria Federation of Catholic Students (NFCS)
Ogbonnah Francis Ugochukwu
Nigeria Federation of Catholic Students (NFCS)
Madukwe Peter Obinwanne
Nigeria Federation of Catholic Students (NFCS)
Michael Afolami
Peace Actor Network, Nigeria
SENZIRA Emmanuel
International Movement of Catholic Students, Rwanda Federatiom
Koone Thamae
National Movement for Catholic Students (NMCS) Botswana
Kudzai Sibusisiwe Mkwala
National Movement for Catholic Students (NMCS), Zambia
Victoria K. Muzyamba
National Movement of Catholic Students (NMCS) Zambia
Abhijith Mathew
All India Catholic University Federation (AICUF)
Aniket Shubham Beck
All India Catholic University Federation (AICUF)
Pasindu Lakshan
Sri Lanka University Catholic Students’ Movement
Ruklan Kularatne
Sri Lanka University Catholic Students’ Movement
Patrick Drishya Purification
Bangladesh Catholic Students’ Movement
Swopnil Louis Cruze
Bangladesh Catholic Students’ Movement
Sumic Maclean Gomes
Bangladesh Catholic Students’ Movement
Anna Holtkamp
Katholisch Studierende Jugend (KSJ) Germany
Jonathan Pagel
Katholisch Studierende Jugend (KSJ) Germany
Conrrado Sigisfredo Vargas
Unión Nacional de Estudiantes Católicos (UNEC) Perú
Erika Quispe Guerra
Unión Nacional de Estudiantes Católicos (UNEC) Perú
Francisco Viany Flores Hilario
Unión Nacional de Estudiantes Católicos (UNEC) Perú
Ariel Coello Peralta
Jeunesse Etudiante Catholique (JEC) Ecuador
Sameh Kamel
Advocacy Coordination Team, IMCS Pax Romana
Victor Kweku Ayertey
Advocacy Coordination Team, IMCS Pax Romana
Eirini Freri
JECI-MIEC European Coordination
William Nokrek
IMCS Asia Pacific
Jorge Parra
MIEC-JECI Latin American Coordination
Fasika Lachore Laba
IMCS Pan African Coordination
Aurelie Monganzimbi
IMCS Pan African Coordination
Fr. Fratern Masawe, SJ
IMCS Pan African Coordination
Ravi Tissera
International Coordination, IMCS Pax Romana
Michael Mmadubueze
International Coordination, IMCS Pax Romana
Fr. Jojo Fung, SJ
International Coordination, IMCS Pax Romana
Pax Romana statement for International Workers’ Day 2020
“We ask St. Joseph …to help us fight for the dignity of work, so that there might be work for all and that it might be dignified work, not the work of a slave.”
Pope Francis on May 1, 2020
Today, we celebrate International Workers’ Day and the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker. This day honors the collective dignity and rights of workers and the role of movements working for labor justice.
This May Day, workers around the world are facing new challenges caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic. While the economic fallout of the crisis has impacted all workers, we take note that the poor and vulnerable have been most impacted by this crisis: extremely high rates of unemployment, dangerous working conditions, lack of protective equipment and medical care, rising cases of domestic violence, and growing discrimination against minorities and migrants.
Daily wage workers are stranded in their confinements without any means to secure some food for their daily sustenance. Hunger has forced them to violate lockdown laws and put their lives in danger of getting infected. Scavenging has been the only way to find some food for many working-class families.
All of this, as St James (James 5:1-6) reminds us, cries out to God and to our shared humanity to take action.
As many governments strengthened their war machineries, they neglected their obligation in establishing effective public healthcare systems. We are now paying a price. Many healthcare workers lack basic protective equipment. Many governments praise the healthcare workers as heroes without providing them with necessary protection and proper contracts to the unregulated healthcare workers.
Migrant workers and refugees have become one of the first communities to be victimized and discriminated during this pandemic. Many of the 244 million migrant workers have become jobless, homeless, and stranded away from home. Without the government subsidies and the access to public healthcare facilities, their plight has become more intolerable and fatal.
The Coronavirus pandemic is illuminating the glaring flaws in our present neoliberal world order and the need of a new social, economic, cultural, political post-pandemic world where everyone is included and mother earth is respected. As Pope Francis points out in Laudato Si’, Integral ecology “needs to take account of the value of labour” (124). Everyone must be able to work, because it is “part of the meaning of life on this earth, a path to growth, human development and personal fulfilment” (128), while “to stop investing in people, in order to gain greater short-term financial gain, is bad business for society” (128).
On this International Workers’ Day, the Pax Romana family -the International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS) and the International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs (ICMICA) – further confirms our Christian duty and commitment to find a society which liberates the “All and Whole human”. The Ponnamallee declaration (1970) of All India Catholic University Federation serves us a timely challenge: “We were born in an unjust society and we are determined not to leave it as we have found it.”
International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs Pax Romana (ICMICA)
International Movement of Catholic Students Pax Romana (IMCS
International Day of Rural Woman
IMCS Pax Romana Solidarity Statement On 2020 International Day of Rural Women.
IMCS Pax Romana In Solidarity With Rural Women at their 2020 International Day With the theme: “Building rural women’s resilience in the wake of COVID-19” for “building back better” by strengthening rural women’s sustainable livelihoods and wellbeing.
Rural women play a crucial role in agriculture, food security and nutrition, land and natural resource management, and rural enterprises. They have been at the front lines of responding to the pandemic even as their unpaid care and domestic work increased under lockdowns, mobility is restricted, supply chains are disrupted, and climate and conflict crises compound COVID-19 impacts.
Over the years, as a catholic student action movement, we have collaborated with rural women in our global actions in rural communities globally and by this solidarity statement, we do not only wish to identify with our partners in progress but most importantly to reaffirm our community in continuous collaborations and partnership with the rural women even at a time like this that Covid-19 have left our work not the same.
The pandemic has greatly heightened the vulnerability of rural women’s rights to land and resources. Discriminatory gender norms and practices impede women’s exercise of land and property rights in most countries. Since women’s land rights are often dependent on their husbands, COVID-19 widows risk disinheritance. Women’s land tenure security is also threatened as unemployed migrants return to rural communities, increasing pressure on land and resources and exacerbating gender gaps in agriculture and food security.
Gender-responsive investments to expand basic infrastructure, healthcare and care services in rural areas have never been more critical that now. Bolstering women’s land rights in law and practice can help protect women from displacement and losing their sources of livelihood. This International Day of Rural Women is a key moment to galvanize action by all stakeholders to support rural women and girls to not only rebuild their lives after COVID-19 but increase their resilience to be better prepared to face future crises.
“Rethinking Democracy” – Pax Romana Journal 2021
This year’s theme is
The Pax Romana Journal is an interdisciplinary annual publication for literature reviews, research and opinion pieces on specific contemporary social issues. Key themes, include but are not limited to: Human rights; Democracy, good governance and global governance; Themes on the United Nations agenda; Faith, church reform, synodality, and lay participation; Youth participation and advocacy; Climate change and ecological justice; Intercultural/interreligious dialogue.
