Nov 17, 2020 | Meetings Taking Action, QEW Position Statements
[Last update: June 2017] “It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world, that they were better studied and knowing in the Creation of it. For how could [they] find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the great Creator...
Oct 1, 2020 | Indigenous Peoples, QEW Position Statements
United States Review of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Comments from: Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW) www.quakerearthcare.org QEW is an organization of individuals and of Yearly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) across North...
Oct 1, 2020 | Advocacy, QEW Position Statements
Statement to the High Level Segment of ECOSOC on Science, Technology and Innovation and the Potential of Culture for Promoting Sustainable Development and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals Science, technology, and innovation are moving ahead rapidly without...
Oct 1, 2020 | Indigenous Peoples, QEW Position Statements
In the days of European exploration and colonization, governments relied on what we now call the Doctrine of Discovery to extinguish all rights of indigenous peoples. The doctrine has not disappeared or been revoked. Instead, it has evolved into common property law,...
Oct 1, 2020 | QEW Position Statements
[flyntTheContent id=”1163″]
Oct 1, 2020 | Minutes on Earthcare, QEW Position Statements
About every 10 years, Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) revises its full Policy Statement. This is the document that “forms the foundation and vision for all of our work,” according to the instructions FCNL gave to Quaker churches, meetings,...
