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…
Br Barry Lobbies at the UN
The work of Edmund Rice International (ERI) has always been of great interest to me from its founding and I have slowly, over the years, built a great sense of…
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…
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…
“Criticism is Not a Crime” – High Commissioner for Human Rights
Speaking at a Human Rights Day Event (10th December) in Geneva, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called on Governments “to acknowledge that criticism is not a…
A Tale of Two Countries: PNG and Switzerland
There’s not a lot these two countries have in common, apart from spectacular mountains and some German churches, but they can work well together. Switzerland hosts the world capital of…
Universal Periodic Review of Liberia
On November 1st 2010, the human rights situation in Liberia was put under the microscope by its peers as part of the country’s first Universal Periodic Review. (UPR) Liberia has…
Call to Respect the Rights of Irregular Migrants
In a landmark statement issued in Geneva on 30th Sep, fourteen major intergovernmental organizations urged respect for the rights and protection of the tens of millions of irregular migrants worldwide.…
UN Committee Urges Australia to Address Racial Discrimination
At the end of August the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination released its Concluding Observations following a review of Australia’s compliance with the International Convention on the…