Statement / submitted by Anglican Consultative Council, Association of Presbyterian Women of Aoteaora, New Zealand, Church Women United, Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Lutheran World Federation, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), Presbyterian Women in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Inc., Salvation Army, United Church of Christ – Board for World Ministries, United Methodist Women, World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women, World Young Women’s Christian Association, and Women’s Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church