The Road to Rio
In June 2012, the third Earth Summit will take place in Rio de Janeiro, exactly 20 years after the first Earth Summit there; so it is being called the Rio+20…
Advocacy Training Workshop Down Under
On October 24 and 25, a Christian Brothers’ Oceania Province training workshop in advocacy was conducted in which the Province Directors of Formation- Mary Murphy, Ministry- Peter Clinch and Networking/Communication-Bernie…
Climate Change Conferences
The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 17 / CMP 7, 28 November – 9 will take place in Durban, South Africa in December 2011 (This article appeared in the…
New Appointment to ERI Team
It has recently been announced that Peter Harney, currently the Deputy Province Leader of the Christian Brothers’ Oceania Province and a member of the ERI Board, has been appointed as…
Papua New Guinea Accepts Further UPR Recommendations
Immediately after its UPR session in May, the government of Papua New Guinea indicated its acceptance of seventy five of the one hundred and forty six recommendations put to it…
Advocating for the Environment and the Rights of Indigenous People in Bolivia
The Christian Brothers have decided they cannot remain silent in the face of recent events in Bolivia. The Bolivian government has decided to build a road through a National Park…
Br Denis Reflects On His Time With ERI
As reported in a recent newsletter Br Denis Claivaz has been appointed to the Congregational Leadership Team of the Presentation Brothers and will finish in Geneva and move to Toronto…
Year of the Forests
One of the most frightening things I have heard this year, the Year of the Forests, was a statement by Brian Swimme, at the District Assembly of our Brothers in…
Advocacy Training in Latin America
To be effective, the work of ERI in Geneva very much depends on having an active Edmund Rice Network engaged in advocacy at the local level. This has required the…
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…