Ending Gun Violence
Background
Gun Control Legislation
The recent wave of criminal assaults with guns both here and abroad all too tragically dramatize the hideous crime this nation continues to perpetuate against itself--its consistent refusal to take effective measures to control the manufacture, sale, and ownership of guns.
Violence Against Women
Adopted at the 61st General Assembly
November, 1991
Baltimore, MD
Background
Women's Health
Adopted at the 62nd General Assembly
October, 1993
San Francisco, CA
Background
Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign
The recently issued report of the President's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders declares as its basic conclusion: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal".
Handgun Control
An examination of the latest statistics on murder (1973) leads us to several important conclusions. The fact that 25,000 people were killed by guns that year in the United States demands that we take immediate and effective action.
Crime
Board of Trustees
May 1968
New York, New York
Genocide
WHEREAS the International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted unanimously by the United Nations and signed by the United States in 1948 as a response to the unspeakable crimes committed by the Hitler regime before and during World War II;
Dealing with Substance Abuse
Background
Drug and alcohol abuse continues to plague our society. We are deeply alarmed by the devastation such abuse causes the family and by the ever growing costs to society, not only monetary, but also in the loss of human resources.
AIDS
58th General Assembly
November 1985
Los Angeles, California