Miguel Barcelo and Geneva Ceiling
I spent almost all of Friday, December 12th, in the new Human Rights Council chamber at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. A special commemorative session to mark the 60th…
Human Rights and the New Cosmology
I came across the paragraphs below in a Zenit report of the daylong forum organized by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See entitled “For Everyone, Everywhere: Universal Human Rights…
Major funding helps work against trafficking
The following article was recently posted on the Catholic Religious Australia website. CRA is the peak body representing all Religious Congregations in Australia:- Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans…
DRC: The violence still goes on
A recent Amnesty International Report on human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) draws attention to the continuing perpetration of violence against children and young people…
Franciscans International Statement on recent Violence in India
In recent months there has been an upsurge of violence against Christians in the State of Orissa in India. Churches have been burned. People have been killed. A climate fear…
Bishop Gumbleton on the Last shall be First
Bishop Gumbleton, a long-time promoter of peace and justice, writes a regular blog on the National Catholic Reporter website. Last Sunday he preached a homily on the parable from Matthew’s…
United Nations Human Rights Conference
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the first universal statement on the basic principles of the human rights to which…
Edmund Rice Centre Youth Group Perth
After learning about the Every Human Has Rights campaign and the commitments to stand up for human rights made by members of The Elders and so many others, a group…
Draft Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Interesting report from “Zenit” GENEVA, JUNE 6, 2008 (Zenit.org).- A draft protocol being considered by the U.N. Human Rights Council will effectively “fill a gap” in the international human rights…
Combatting Human Trafficking
Right now Franciscans International is hosting a week-long training session for people involved in the prevention of trafficking around the world. Coincidentally, the United Nations itself hosted at thematic event…