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How Many Slaves Work for You?
Emily Wilson-Hauger, public policy intern, writes about the connection between our consumer choices and modern-day slavery in the latest Third Way Cafe. A friend recently posted a link on her Facebook...
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Purchasing power
by Rachelle Lyndaker Schlabach The U.S. military spends about $4 billion on recruitment each year. Reducing this amount by 10 percent would allow the U.S. to nearly double its funding for maternal and...
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Women: the key to food security
Patricia Kisare marks the passing of Women’s History Month with a reflection on the role of women in world wide food production and the need to better account for who produces food when making policy...
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International Debt Arbitration
Patricia Kisare writes about the need for an international debt court in the latest Third Way Cafe. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are two of the largest sources of sovereign...
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Gold rush in Haiti – blessing or curse?
Haiti has literally struck gold. Potentially $20 billions worth of it, deep beneath its mountains, along with an abundance of silver and copper. But will it be a blessing or a curse? A new...
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Tanzania: They’re kicking them off their land
Middle Eastern kings and princes are about to force up to 48,000 people in Tanzania from their land to make way for corporate-sponsored big game hunting. But Tanzanian President Kikwete has shown...
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Caravan for Peace in Washington, DC
On Tuesday, September 11, the MCC Washington Office hosted five members of the U.S.-Mexico Caravan for Peace at a brown bag lunch. Each shared personal stories of tragedy and loss due to the drug war...
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President Obama, Governor Romney – Don’t forget about Haiti
Take action and write a letter asking the presidential candidates to support Haiti by committing to support US policies that promote justice in the Caribbean nation. Nearly three years after the...
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Colombia’s Victims and Land Restitution Law Still Unfelt on the Ground
A joint publication released in September 2012 by Lutheran World Relief (LWR) and Latin America Working Group Education Fund (LAWGEF) estimates 360,000 families on the Caribbean Coast of Colombia have...
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Petition to President Obama asking him to protect funding for HIV/AIDS programs
In advance of President Obama’s release of budget requests for the 2014 financial year,we ask you to sign a petition calling him to preserve funding for HIV/AIDS programs. We have 30 days to collect...
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Improving food aid
Patricia Kisare writes about proposed improvements to food aid in the most recent Mennonite World Review. Mennonite Central Committee and other nongovernmental organizations have been advocating for...
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Saving Lives in 1,000 Days
Patricia Kisare writes about U.S.-supported nutrition programs in the latest Third Way Cafe. The U.S. government addresses the issue of malnutrition through the Feed the Future program and the Global...
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U.S. food aid to reach more people
An analysis of the new U.S. farm bill by Patricia Kisare in the latest Third Way Cafe. The farm bill, which Congress is required to reauthorize every five years, is the main instrument through which...
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2013-2014 High school essay contest: Grand prize
Effectively Easing Global Hunger Adam Krahn Bethany Christian Schools, Goshen, Indiana Grade 12 Global hunger has always been a large problem, too big for any single organization or country to solve....
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Essay contest winner explores ways to address global hunger
Adam Krahn, a senior at Bethany Christian Schools in Goshen, Ind., has earned grand prize for his essay on global hunger in the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S. Washington Office annual essay...
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Good news: Congress passes landmark bill for aid transparency in Haiti!
Legislative movement in Congress has been a lot like a one-horse town: if you blink, you’ll miss it. While there haven’t been too many bills making their way into law, there was a recent bill on...
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Ending extreme poverty and hunger
By Charles Kwuelum In recent years, there has been a shift in conversation about development goals. The shift from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals evokes contextual...
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Answering the global poverty eradication question
Recently Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, applauded the 15-year global push to meet the Millennium Development Goals on poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health,...
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The greatest act is love
The U.S. government has been an integral leader in the fight against extreme poverty globally, investing in life-saving humanitarian and development needs. The needs remain enormous. About 65.3 million...
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The MCC Washington Office recently hosted members of our new network of “volunteer advocacy coordinators” in D.C. for training, networking and advocacy. The network is an effort to increase advocacy...
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