by Darla Carter | Presbyterian News Service
A street scene in Apartadó, Colombia. (Photo by Robyn Davis Sekula)
LOUISVILLE â The Washington office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has signed onto a letter asking President Joe Biden to make the Colombian governmentâs full implementation of 2016 peace accords a priority.
The Office of Public Witness joined more than 20 other groups in signing onto the March 1 letter, which asks Bidenâs administration to âpay attention to preserving and strengthening peace in Colombia and protecting the nationâs endangered human rights defenders.â
The letter centers on peace accords dating back to the Obama-Biden administration that are at risk because of what the signatories describe as âweak implementationâ in the South American country that has been embroiled in 56 years of armed conflict.
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by Rich Copley | Presbyterian News Service
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is joining hundreds of other groups calling for intellectual property rules to be lifted to enable wider distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. (Photo courtesy of the National Cancer Institute via Unsplash)
LEXINGTON, Kentucky â The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness (OPW) is joining more than 400 faith, human rights, civil society, and labor organizations in calling on the administration of President Joe Biden to join a global movement to make COVID-19 vaccines more widely available around the world.
The groups are calling on Biden to reverse the Trump administrationâs opposition to a waiver of World Trade Organization intellectual property rules so that vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests can be more broadly produced and distributed, particularly in developing nations.