Ending Violence Against Women
Up to 70 per cent of women experience violence in their lifetime. Between 500,000 to 2 million people are trafficked annually into situations including prostitution, forced labour, slavery or servitude,…
Seeing Another Way of Making a Difference
On the 17th October, we started our journey to Geneva, Switzerland, to visit the United Nations. We stayed with the Christian Brothers community in Gaillard – just outside of Geneva.…
Human Rights Committee Determines 46 Refugees Should be Released
The Human Rights Committee (HRC) has concluded that 46 recognised refugees facing indefinite detention in Australia due to adverse security assessments should be released and offered compensation and rehabilitation. The…
Australian School provides Water and Sanitation Program for Baugo National High School, in the Philippines.
“The children who have no clean water to drink, the women who fear for their safety, the young people who have no chance to receive a decent education have a…
Climate Change is Real and Human Activity is Responsible – IPCC
‘Human influence on the climate system is clear’ and‘Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia.’…
Edmund Rice International Welcomes Nine is Mine to New York
Edmund Rice International welcomed Nine is Mine to New York from September 18- September 27, 2013. Eleven students and nine chaperones composed the delegation under the direction of Br. Steve…
Alternatives to Immigration Detention Needed
As issues of asylum seekers and migration increasingly become a global concern an international panel has agreed that detention of children is not justified and that alternatives must be sought.…
NGO Recommendations DO Matter in the UPR Process
In 2008 the Human Rights Council initiated the first Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This four-yearly human rights review of every Member State of the United Nations takes place in Geneva…
Welcome to Our Newest Intern
From little Tasmania to culturally diverse Geneva it’s been a big couple of months for me but I am excited to have made it to the ERI offices and to…
Welcoming the Stranger
UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres poses with some of the participants in the Dialogue on Faith and Protection. UNHCR photo/ J M Ferré Following a ‘Dialogue on Faith…