Presbyterian Mission Agency human rights Archives

2021 Issue Priorities Brochure – OPW & UN

Posted February 1st, 2022

Download the 2021 Presbyterian Offices of Public Witness (OPW) domestic and international priorities and the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations (UN) thematic issues priority brochure for 2021. The brochure… Read more »

Israel-Palestine: For Human Values in the Absence of a Just Peace

Posted July 5th, 2017

The repeated failure of the peace process in Israel-Palestine is also a failure of national and international politics to address the human rights of a people kept stateless by military… Read more »

Presbyterians Say No Child Soldiers

Posted July 8th, 2013

Join Presbyterian efforts to end the exploitation of children as soldiers. Find information about the issue and how you can become involved as well as a description of how to… Read more »

You Made Us in Your Image – a Human Rights Day hymn (pdf)

Posted December 2nd, 2012

Drawing on the affirmation that we all are made in God’s image, other scriptural references, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has written a… Read more »

You Made Us in Your Image – a hymn for Human Rights Day

Posted December 2nd, 2012

Drawing on the affirmation that we all are made in God’s image, other scriptural references, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has written a… Read more »

For Human Rights and Civic Freedom: Movements for Democratic Change in the Arab World

Posted August 29th, 2012

The Arab Awakening (or Spring) revealed a thirst for dignity and freedom long suppressed by dictators, some supported by the US. Sensitive to Muslim-Christian differences on the relationship of religious… Read more »

Human Rights Update 2010

Posted March 10th, 2011

Read the Human Rights Update 2010 developed by The Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP)of the General Assembly Mission Council.

Sixty Years of Hope: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Posted June 29th, 2010

A celebration of 60 years of Human Right Day by the Rev. Robert F. Smylie.

A candle lighting service for Human Rights Day

Posted June 29th, 2010

This liturgy addresses concerns for torture. It could be used as the Advent candle is lit on the Sunday closest to Human Rights Day—December 10. A separate candle could be… Read more »

Human Rights Day children’s sermon

Posted June 29th, 2010

A sermon for children on Human Rights Day (December 10).