Environment / Ecology - Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Council (GOAC) at the UN
Forced Migration, Human Trafficking, and Child Soldiers:
How ISIL is Exploiting the Conflict in the Middle East
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Speakers
Li Fung
Office of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict
Shafferan Sonneveld
Global Advocacy Director
Muslims for Progressive Values
Edward J. Flynn
Senior Human Rights Office
UN Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate
Dr. Emeka Obiezu
Main Representative, Augustinians International
Vice Chair of the UN NGO Committee on Migration
Dennis W. Frado, Moderator
Director, Lutheran Office for World Community, ELCA
Main Representative at UN, The Lutheran World Federation
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Ecological consciousness has never been more important than it is today. For the past twenty years, interest in the environment has grown exponentially and will continue to grow due to deforestation, emissions, rising sea levels, and various other causes and effects of climate change. For Orthodox Christians, being stewards of creation is inextricably linked to the theological and humanitarian sensibility of the Church. Any principle or action that seeks to limit, undermine, or destroy this sacred fabric of humanity, according to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, is to "fail to see it as a gift inherited from above.”
For decades, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Council (GOAC) has advocated as a non-governmental organization (NGO) at the United Nations on the issues of ecology and environment. Currently, the GOAC contributes to environmental advocacy primarily through the NGO Mining Working Group but also throudh independent initaiatives.