A Matter of Justice: Debt Forgiveness in the Jubilee Year
The Permanent Mission of the Holy See co-organised a side-event during the current UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva, with the aim of raising awareness of the human cost…
Impossible to Guarantee Safety of Afghan Returnees – Report
The Edmund Rice Centre for Justice & Community Education (ERC) has been documenting the fate of rejected asylum seekers returned to Afghanistan by the Australian government since 2002. Their latest…
Mixed Progress in Addressing Global Tax Evasion and Corruption
Disappointment has been expressed that a small group of rich countries blocked a plan for international tax rule-making to be removed from the clutches of the world’s rich countries, with…
Talking Human Rights – 21 Civil Society Organisations, 1 Agenda
On the evening of the 19th of April 2014, the Pax Romana conference on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) commenced. It was a five day conference aimed at creating awareness…
2013 – A Turning Point in the Quest for Financial Transparency
By its very nature the work of changing unjust structures is slow and it can be difficult to see results for one’s efforts. Edmund Rice International is a member of…
Holy See Calls for Reform of Global Finance
Cardinal Peter Turkson President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and Bishop Mario Toso, Secretary to the Council together with Leonardo Becchetti, professor of political economy at the…
Join ERI in Calling on World Leaders to End Tax Haven Secrecy
While over 100 million children never get the opportunity to go to school, developing countries lose more money through tax dodging than they receive in aid. Edmund Rice International has…
Transparency in Global Economy a Key to Alleviating Poverty
According to Global Financial Integrity (GFI) a US based think-tank, developing countries are currently losing ten times the amount of money they receive in aid each year through activities such…
Street Child World Cup Launched
The following article was taken from ‘Ekklesia’ An initiative involving Christian charities and others was launched last night in Westminster to highlight the situation of street children. The Street Child…
The world’s poor stand to lose the most
Aid agency representatives October 24, 2008 Aid and financial crisis. Photo: Dyson Governments are spending billions to save stricken companies. From another quarter comes a plea for them to offer…