International Human Rights and Justice
Confronted with genocide, global pandemics, human trafficking, economic exploitation, torture, and other deplorable realities that tear apart our human family, we have covenanted to affirm and promote justice, equity and compassion in human relations. We dare to dream of a world free from oppression and injustice, where all can realize their full human rights*.This dream is grounded in a theology that does not turn away from the oppression in this world, but unflinchingly stares down the beast of injustice. We recognize that it is not enough to simply feed the hungry, nurse the afflicted, and house the homeless. We must ask the hard questions, why must these folks go hungry while those folks feast daily? And as our minds uncover layers of truth, our hands are busy shaping the clay of the earth. Ours is a theology of engagement; for we realize that we are all stuck in the web of injustice, whether we are those who starve or those who feast.
*Credited to the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Vision Statement
For more information contact la_international @ uua.org.
Last updated on Wednesday, April 30, 2008.
