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March 28, 2019

Autonomous weapons systems threaten peace, says Vatican official

Activists from the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, a coalition of nongovernmental organizations opposing lethal autonomous weapons, protest at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin March, 21, 2019.

VATICAN CITY - The growing use of autonomous weapons systems poses serious risks to global peace and stability, a Vatican representative told a U.N. meeting in Geneva.

Published in Vatican
June 12, 2017

Vatican: Failure to protect child migrants an insult to human dignity

Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Vatican observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva, says the failure to protect child migrants "are an insult to human dignity."

VATICAN CITY – Too often, national and international policies leave migrant children at the mercy of traffickers and sexual predators and are signs of a widespread failure to protect the innocent, a Vatican official said.

Published in Vatican
March 17, 2017

Health care access is a human right, Vatican tells UN

Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, the Holy See's permanent observer to the U.N. in Geneva, told the the Human Rights Council that health care access is a human right.

GENEVA, Switzerland – Health care access is a human right, not just a matter of philanthropy, the Holy See told the United Nations last Friday.

Published in Vatican
March 8, 2017

The death penalty doesn't solve problems, archbishop tells UN

Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Holy See's Permanent Observer to the United Nations, told the UN Human Rights Council that the death penalty doesn't solve problems.

GENEVA, Switzerland – The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations reiterated the Vatican’s defence of all human life in a meeting with UN Human Rights Council on the death penalty.

Published in International
October 6, 2016

World has a duty to protect refugees, Vatican representative says

Displaced Iraqi women wait for their tent to be built June 21 at a refugee camp in Fallujah. Vatican observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva, Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, says the world has a duty to protect refugees.

VATICAN CITY – While national concerns about an influx of migrants and refugees may be legitimate, no country should lose sight of the fact that the influx is made up of real people whose lives are in danger, a Vatican official told a U.N. meeting.

Published in International