ERI Intern’s Blog
Follow the fortunes of our interns Jordan Wren and Cathal Ó Fainín via their respective blogs.
Edmund Rice Society Marks World Water Day in Bulawayo.
The southern part of Zimbabwe has received below average rains for the past three years, believed to be a result of climate change. In addition, illegal gold panning has contributed…
Students Raising Awareness About Modern Day Slavery
An estimated 27 million people are presently enslaved around the globe as a result of trafficking, debt bondage, illegal contract labour and prostitution – more than the total figure of…
The Rise of the South – New NDP Report
The UN Development Programme releases a report every two years or so. The latest one is entitled, rather melodramatically, ‘The Rise of the South’. The full report is available online.…
Marino Institute of Education (Dublin) Explores Links with ERI
From the moment Dr. Anne O’Gara (left), President of Marino Institute of Education, an associate college of Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and Dr Barbara O’Toole (right), stepped off the plane…
Advocacy and Human Rights training in the Philippines
ERI Team member Peter Harney visited the Philippines in February to conduct two training workshops, one in Maasin and the other in Kabankalan. The latter was held at the San…
High Commissioner Reflects on Human Rights Progress
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré At the commencement of the 22nd Session of the Human Rights Council on 25th February, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, acknowledged the…
Balancing Free Speech and Incitement of Hatred
Following a two-year process and a series of workshops around the world on how better to implement Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the…
Welcome to Two New Interns
This month ERI welcomed two new interns to Geneva, Jordan Wren from Australia and Cathal Ó Fainín from Ireland. Their internships will be for 3 months. Jordan is from Bacchus…
Which Continent has Seven of the World’s Fastest Growing Economies?
The New Year has now lost some of its gloss and the harsh reality of working towards a more equitable way of sharing the earth’s limited resources confronts people of…