Edmund Rice International » Human Rights

1. Students Raising Awareness About Modern Day Slavery
    An estimated 27 million people are presently enslaved around the globe as a result of trafficking, debt bondage, illegal contract labour and prostitution – more than the total figure of all people trafficked during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. After learning about modern day slavery as part of their transition year program, students from Presentation College, [...]
2. Advocacy and Human Rights training in the Philippines
    ERI Team member Peter Harney visited the Philippines in February to conduct two training workshops, one in Maasin and the other in Kabankalan. The latter was held at the San Columbano Retreat and Conference Center, on, 21-23 February, 2013. Here is a report from Br Rod Ellyard who facilitated the workshop:- Those who attended the training [...]
3. High Commissioner Reflects on Human Rights Progress
    UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré  At the commencement of the 22nd Session of the Human Rights Council on 25th February, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, acknowledged the 20th-year anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Plan of Action and described the VDPA as “the most significant overarching human rights document produced in the [...]
4. Balancing Free Speech and Incitement of Hatred
   Following a two-year process and a series of workshops around the world on how better to implement Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the ‘prohibition of incitement to national, racial and religious hatred’, the resulting Rabat Plan of Action was launched at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on 21st [...]
5. Climate Change – the Biggest Human Rights Challenge of Our Time
    “Climate change is the biggest human rights challenge of our time” says former Irish president and UN Human Rights High Commissioner Mary Robinson following the conclusion of the recent UN Climate Summit in Doha. “It’s undermining livelihoods—rights to food and safe water and health and education. It’s having people displaced by climate, and that can [...]