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  • BECAUSE our Unitarian Universalist Principles affirm “the inherent worth and dignity of every person” and call for “justice, equity and compassion in human relations” and BECAUSE our denomination has a long history of opposing racism and sexism; WHEREAS full-time supermarket workers in...
    2011 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Corporate Responsibility, Gender Justice, Economic Justice, Racial Justice
  • WHEREAS the first and sixth Unitarian Universalist [UU] Principles affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person and the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all, and the United Nations Charter reflects these values in its commitment to promote peace,...
    2009 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Gender Justice, International Human Rights & Justice, LGBTQ Issues, International Peace & Conflict, Due Process & Civil Liberties, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Religious & Civil Liberties
  • WHEREAS our Unitarian Universalist Principles call us to affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person and to promote justice, equity and compassion in human relations; WHEREAS Largo....
    2007 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Gender Justice, Economic Justice, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality
  • WHEREAS the first Unitarian Universalist principle "to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person," and the sixth principle, "the goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all," correspond with the purpose of the United Nations Charter "to promote peace,...
    2007 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Gender Justice, Reproductive Health
  • WHEREAS our Unitarian Universalist Principles call upon us to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person and to seek justice, equity, and compassion in human relations; and WHEREAS in the past four decades the Unitarian Universalist Association and its member congregations...
    2003 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Gender Justice, International Human Rights & Justice, Civil Rights & Religious Liberty
  • WHEREAS the year 1998 marks the 150th anniversary of the women's rights convention in the United States, held at Seneca Falls and Rochester, New York; and WHEREAS the year 2000 will mark the 150th anniversary of the much larger convention at Worcester, Massachusetts, and both conventions and thei...
    1998 | Business Resolution
    Tagged as: Gender Justice, International Human Rights & Justice, Civil Rights & Religious Liberty
  • BECAUSE Unitarian Universalists are committed to the goal of a peaceful world characterized by justice, equity, and compassion for all; and WHEREAS play and media images are among the primary ways a child learns about the world; WHEREAS studies have demonstrated that exposure to media violence...
    1995 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Gender Justice, International Peace & Conflict
  • BECAUSE Unitarian Universalists affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person, and living with dignity includes freedom from physical and emotional violence and the fear of such violence in the home, workplace, church, and community; and WHEREAS the number of reported cases of harassment ...
    1993 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Gender Justice, Reproductive Health, Religious & Civil Liberties, Reproductive Justice
  • BECAUSE, Unitarian Universalists affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person, as well as justice, equity, and compassion in human relations; and WHEREAS, the wage gap between men and women is one of the oldest and most persistent effects of inequality between the sexes in th...
    1987 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Gender Justice, Economic Justice, Reproductive Health
  • WHEREAS, the principles of religious liberty require the protection of the right of conscience in reproductive matters as deeply religious and personal decisions; and WHEREAS, actions of the religious right minority, and the current US Administration, increasingly threaten access to safe and lega...
    1986 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Gender Justice, Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Reproductive Health, Religious & Civil Liberties, Reproductive Justice