This three-page resource presents how and why the Catholic Church arrived at its position on immigration.  It spells out the vision and values behind the Church's stance.

This resource provides a brief overview of the vision of the social tradition in light of the warning signs and impacts of global climate change. 

World Food Crisis- The Center of Concern's Education for Justice project has prepared a resource designed to provide a clear overview of the current food crisis and the conflicting economic forces at work behind the scenes.

Human Trafficking, the current form of modern slavery, has escalated in
the recent decade. According to UN statistics, over 2.4 million persons
are trafficked a year in an illegal industry that reaps from $7 to
$10million dollars annually, third only to the illegal trade in drugs
and in arms. The illegal trade in human beings is both facilitated and
driven by the effects of globalization economic integration and the
continuing dominance of the system of patriarchy throughout the world.
This power point examines the push/pull factors of trafficking and
migration which brings many people into both forced economic labor and
forced sexual labor.

Women worldwide, as individuals and through the Women’s Movement, have expended enormous personal and professional energy to ensure that the issues of women in development were addressed in major institutions, such as the World Bank, the UN and all its agencies, and in development organizations both governmental and private. However, despite these advances, gender inequalities persist across all societies and in all institutions and sectors. A kind of gender fatigue has set in among many advocates and institutions, which prompts the central question of this article: Why has gender remained such a difficult issue in the international NGO development community?

This power point presentation with reference to Catholic Social Teaching critiques globalization through three lens: globalization as a new perception of space relations, as global economic integration and as an economic doctrine. It concludes with alternative directions to pursue to bring about a more just future.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a popular and much supported set of goals to cut poverty in half by 2015. But will they achieve these goals? This power point presentation takes a hard look at the goals, both their positive and negative dimensions and focuses on Goal 8 as the key for success or failure.

Twenty-six scholars, academics and social justice activists gathered outside Toronto, September 25-28, 2003, to assess the relevance and promise of Catholic Social Teaching (CST) for the globalizing dynamics of today. A general consensus emerged from this group that CST in its present form has much to contribute to the world community, but it clearly cannot claim to be a global ethic, marked as it is by both the strengths and the clear limitations of being culturally western and theologically Catholic-Christian. The challenge is to develop a Catholic ethic for globalization that can be brought into constructive dialogue with the other faiths and cultures gracing the planet. That will put us on the only viable path toward a global ethic–an ethic that will then have to be expressed to the peoples of the world in the rich diversity of cultural forms that constitute the world’s faiths.

"The Third Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle is an important moment in the process of constructing the global institutions that will govern life on the planet in the 21st century. The Church, with its wealth of experience, reflection and commitment to social justice, needs to be more present and more fully engaged. It needs to engage not just in the Seattle moment but especially in the longer term process of sorting out the global trade system and the structures of global governance."