Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri is urging governments to ensure human rights are given priority in trade and investment by big companies when a U.N. treaty is developed this fall.
Archbishop Bernardito Auza called on the U.N. and its member states to develop policies and investments "that people can see and touch" to tackle social and spiritual poverty as well.
The United Nations is preparing to embark on talks to ban nuclear weapons.Negotiations are set to begin in March and are expected to take an indefinite time to complete.The end result is uncertain, but the 123 nations that voted on Oct. 27 for a resolution within the U.N. General Assembly committee