Ecumenical Engagement for Human Rights

This article was originally given as a keynote address on 15 June 2021 to the annual Karlsruhe Foyer Church and Law reception, which gathered church representatives, judges of the German Federal Constitutional Court and Federal Court of Justice, as well as representatives of the Federal Prosecutor&#...

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Main Author: Prove, Peter N. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2021
In: The ecumenical review
Year: 2021, Volume: 73, Issue: 4, Pages: 581-593
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDJ Ecumenism
NBE Anthropology
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Commission of the Churches on International Affairs
B World Council of Churches
B Human Rights
B Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Summary:This article was originally given as a keynote address on 15 June 2021 to the annual Karlsruhe Foyer Church and Law reception, which gathered church representatives, judges of the German Federal Constitutional Court and Federal Court of Justice, as well as representatives of the Federal Prosecutor's Office. After recounting the contributions made by the World Council of Churches (WCC) to the development of the international human rights framework and the evolution of its own approach to these issues, it highlights increasing challenges in recent years to this legal framework for the protection of human dignity. It concludes by looking toward the WCC’s 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2022 as an opportunity for churches to rise above these challenges and to become even more engaged in support of human rights and the legal framework developed for their promotion and protection.
ISSN:1758-6623
Contains:Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/erev.12634