Edmund Rice Beyond 250 Appeal Launched
The launch of the Edmund Rice Beyond 250 Appeal took place at the Marino Institute of Education in Dublin on May 2nd. This year marks the 250th anniversary of the…
Edmund Rice Society Pioneers Earth Hour Campaign in Zimbabwe.
Preparations to mark the Earth Hour in Zimbabwe started with a workshop at St Patrick’s, CBC Bulawayo. Thirty representatives from different stakeholder groups including local government, churches, schools, environment agencies,…
Geneva – My Little Voice in the City of Justice
Vijay Kumar was one of the group of young people who came to Geneva recently to lobby around the submission that a group of children had written for the Universal…
Indian Children Press for Children’s Rights in Geneva
Anne-Tamara Lorre from the Canadian Permanent Mission with members of the children’s delegation from India. Also pictured are (at back l-r) Br Steve Rocha, Aditya Garg and Vijay Kumar. In…
Global Campaign Launched to End Children in Immigration Detention
To listen to a series of sad-eyed social scientists list the cruel and degrading treatment of children held in detention centres is a harrowing way to spend two hours in…
ERI Advocacy for Immigration Reform: US announces changes to Guest Worker Program
The Edmund Rice International (ERI) submission for the Universal Periodic Review of the United States at the UN Human Rights Council in November 2010 focused on the issue of Guest…
ERI Supports Call to Address Violence Against Albino Children
ERI has leant its support to a written submission by Franciscans International (FI) to the Human Rights Council on the plight of albino children in Tanzania. Albinism is a genetic…
Educating Young People in Justice and Peace
In his annual message for the World day of Peace, Pope Benedict XVI has expressed his conviction that the young, with their enthusiasm and idealism, can offer new hope to…
2012 – The Year of Sustainable Energy for All
Energy is central to nearly every major challenge, and opportunity the world faces today. Be it jobs, security, climate change, food production or increasing incomes , access to sustainable energy…
Day of the Child Worker in Bolivia
Most nations have laws that prohibit child labour. Yet throughout the world, children in large numbers can be seen toiling in sweatshops, hauling concrete, tilling fields, plucking garbage or peddling…