WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association has maintained a traditional role as a vigorous supporter of human rights; and WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee has been historically involved in promoting social change and assisting economic development in El Salvador and othe...

In view of the sensitivities involved in considering the moral dimensions of the Middle East crisis, the Board of Trustees reaffirms its opposition to anti-Semitism in all its forms and recognizes, along with much of the Jewish community, that criticism of the policies of the government of Israel...

WHEREAS, a new international Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women was approved by the United Nations in December, 1979, signed by seventy-five nations in Copenhagen in July, 1980, and is now awaiting ratification by member nations; and WHEREAS, this Conventi...

WHEREAS, recent General Assemblies of the Unitarian Universalist Association have passed resolutions calling for a reduction of United States arms sales and transfers to countries which violate basic human rights, such as "Human Rights in El Salvador" in 1977 and "Sharing in the New Call to...

WHEREAS, recent General Assemblies of the Unitarian Universalist Association have passed resolutions calling for a reduction of United States arms sales and transfers to countries who violate basic human rights such as "Human Rights in El Salvador" in 1977 and "Sharing in the New Call to...

WHEREAS, there are now at least ten million refugees (a refugee is defined as someone outside his or her country who is unable or unwilling to return to that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of prosecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership ...

WHEREAS, the number of hungry and starving people on this fertile globe has reached a magnitude that staggers comprehension; and WHEREAS, international and national agencies, and numerous nongovernmental organizations have come to realize that world resources are not adequate to supply the basic...

WHEREAS, the underlying source of the human energy devoted to extreme nationalism and aggressive individual and aggressive national behavior is fear, said fear deriving from the concern of individuals and institutions for their survival; and WHEREAS, to relieve this fear and associated tensions a...

WHEREAS, half a billion of the world's four billion inhabitants suffer from malnutrition and another billion do not have a proper diet; and WHEREAS, the developing nations of the world have not been able to increase their food production to a point where they can keep up with their needs for food...

WHEREAS, millions of people may die in the next few years because of inadequate world grain reserves; and drought and other causes have rendered grain production unstable, which drives prices up and forces poorer countries out of the world grain market; and WHEREAS, it has been demonstrated that...

WHEREAS, two full years have passed since the end of the war in Indochina without the offering of one dollar or one tool in US reconstruction aid, and in addition the new President of the United States has explicitly stated that we "have no responsibility for reparations" (March 24, 1977), and th...

WHEREAS, in May of 1977, a Unitarian Universalist Service Committee investigation revealed evidence of gross violations of human rights by the government of El Salvador, including mass killings of civilians, widespread electoral fraud, arbitrary arrest and detention, religious persecution, tortur...

WHEREAS, the war and the collapse of the government in South Vietnam have left that part of the nation with every second person a refugee and every fifth child an orphan; and WHEREAS, the million refugees of this March and April were unable to harvest spring crops, and starvation is currently...

WHEREAS, the International Covenants on Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1966 stress the importance of nations in upholding, protecting and extending the rights of human beings the world over; and WHEREAS, the recognition and approval of those covenants are...

CONVINCED that world order and peace require increased support for a strengthening of the United Nations, the Unitarian Universalist Association: COMMENDS the continuing and courageous efforts of the Secretary General employing the facilities of the United Nations in peace-making and peace-keepin...

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...

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...

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...

WHEREAS, world peace depends on the recognition by all nations of fundamental human rights (such as those embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948); and WHEREAS, the United Nations has attempted to encourage the nations of the wo...

WHEREAS, 1960 was the "Year of Africa" in that 17 new states became independent, 14 of which were admitted to the United Nations; and WHEREAS, in other areas of Africa, notably Algeria, Southwest Africa, the Rhodesias, Mozambique and Angola, Africans are denied self-government and other basic hum...