Students Protest at Misuse of Funds
The following is taken from a longer article written by Durgesh Kumar Atwal, a student at St Johns Christian Brothers College in Chandigarh, India A couple of days ago, about…
ERI Lobbying on Saint Lucia Proves Fruitful
Br Barry Noel pictured with the Permanent Representative of Saint Lucia to the UN in New York, Dr. Donatus (Keith) St. Aimee. The Universal Periodic Review of Saint Lucia took…
ERI Puts the Hard Questions to Australia
The day following Australia Day (Jan 26th), Australia faced the Human Rights Council in Geneva on its record on human rights, as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This…
Group of Children Makes a Submission as part of UPR
Children from Lebanon, through an initiative of the non-governmental organisation World Vision, came together in order to write and submit a submission to the Human Rights Council as part of…
“Criticism is Not a Crime” – High Commissioner for Human Rights
Speaking at a Human Rights Day Event (10th December) in Geneva, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called on Governments “to acknowledge that criticism is not a…
Support for ‘Nine is Mine’ Cycle Rally from Around the World
From Ireland to Sierra Leone, from Kimberley to Brisbane and from many places in between, students from Edmund Rice Schools around the world demonstrated their solidarity and support for the…
Edmund Rice Society Advocacy in Bulawayo
Fifty teenagers inspired by the Edmund Rice Society held a street march in Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) in September to urge the residents of the city to lower water consumption. The city…
“Nine is Mine” – Indian Children Cycle to Ask for Education Promise to be Honoured
Statue in New Delhi commemorating the ‘Salt March’ led by Gandhi as part of the struggle for Indian independence As part of the campaign to urge governments to honour their…
Universal Periodic Review of Liberia
On November 1st 2010, the human rights situation in Liberia was put under the microscope by its peers as part of the country’s first Universal Periodic Review. (UPR) Liberia has…
Call to Respect the Rights of Irregular Migrants
In a landmark statement issued in Geneva on 30th Sep, fourteen major intergovernmental organizations urged respect for the rights and protection of the tens of millions of irregular migrants worldwide.…