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  • WHEREAS, the population of the world is now increasing at a faster rate than is food production, and birth control alone will not solve the problem of hunger in the immediate future; and WHEREAS, the prospects for substantial increases in food production in the areas of greatest need, most notabl...
    1966 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Human Rights & Justice, International Engagement & Building Peace
  • REAFFIRMING the intent of its 1964 resolution urging "the United States to reconsider its policy in Vietnam and to explore solutions other than military," the Unitarian Universalist Association: NOTES again that the present war in Vietnam threatens to escalate into a world nuclear war; URGES the...
    1966 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict
  • RESOLVED: The Unitarian Universalist Association urges the governments of the United States and Canada to take the following steps to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons: Continue negotiation in the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Conference, with the addition of the People's Republic of Chi...
    1966 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict, Nuclear Disarmament
  • DEEPLY concerned with the gravity of the international situation and the increasing threat to peace due to armed intervention and other direct and indirect forms of interference threatening the political independence of states; and RECALLING that the Twentieth United Nations General Assembly in...
    1966 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict
  • RESOLVED: The Unitarian Universalist Association approves the concern of the United States Congress with an important natural resource as evidenced by the Wilderness Act of 1964, the Clean Air Act of 1964, the Clean Air Act Amendments, the Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965, and the Water Quality A...
    1966 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Climate & Environmental Justice
  • INASMUCH AS, one of the purposes and objectives of the Unitarian Universalist Association, as stated in Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, is "To affirm, defend and promote the supreme worth of every human personality, the dignity of man, and the use of the democratic method in human...
    1966 | Business Resolution
    Tagged as: Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Racial Justice
  • FURTHER RESOLVED: That we urge the Unitarian Universalist Association to become increasingly aware of the problems and potentials of older adults within both the church and the community; and to become actively involved, both in meeting problems and developing potentials of older adults; and FURT...
    1966 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Reproductive Health, Religious & Civil Liberties
  • AFFIRMING that one of the major goals of international diplomacy should be the reduction of tension between the United States and the People's Republic of China; and NOTING that the United States should initiate steps which may reduce that tension without sacrificing its own security, the Unitari...
    1966 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Human Rights & Justice
  • RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association urges the complete abolition of capital punishment in all United States and Canadian jurisdictions; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association seek to encourage the governors of the states and the Canadian cabinet ...
    1966 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Criminal Justice, Religious & Civil Liberties
  • Apartheid 1966 General Resolution THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION DEPLORES the refusal of the government of South Africa to comply with the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly and its continued implementation of the policies of apartheid; URGES the...
    1966 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Human Rights & Justice
  • WHEREAS, the United States has made consistent progress in the past decade in promoting the welfare of its people by passage of labor and social legislation, such as collective bargaining, minimum wage, social security, workmen's compensation and child labor regulations, but has generally exclude...
    1966 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Agriculture in Environmental Justice, Economic Justice