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…
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…
Earth Hour – the Response of One School Community
Convinced that we are living on borrowed time and consuming resources of Mother Earth that actually belong to future generations, members of the St Joseph’s Bowbazar school community in Kolkata,…
Shane Wood Reports on ERI Training Course in Geneva
For the past three weeks I have been living in our international, inter-congregational community just over the Swiss border in France, and taking part in a training program on the…
Awareness Raising at Archbishop Curley Notre Dame High School
Recently sixty-five students from the Edmund Rice Community (ERC) of Archbishop Curley Notre Dame High School fasted for twenty-seven hours from all food and beverages other than water, seeking to…
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…
Promoting Environmental Awareness in Kenya
Johnstone Shisanya, the ERN co-ordinator in East Africa, has reported on the support of the Edmund Rice Justice and Advocacy group for initiatives around the issues of education, children’s rights…
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…