Edmund Rice International

In Sierra Leone the Christian Brothers are embarking on a nation-wide birth registration sensitization program in collaboration with Cord-Aid Sierra Leone. Article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child states that:- “The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to [...]

The bold move made by the Presentation Brothers to continue the Chapter mandate of “Singing a New Song” was very much in evidence in Spisske Podhradie, Slovakia, which I visited in March. Here are two elderly Brothers, Vincent and Michael, (both in their 70’s) in a very remote part of Europe behind the former Iron [...]

Of all the tragedies afflicting youth, one of the hardest for workers to handle is youth suicide. The numbing effect of grief, the undertow of despair, often render our efforts fruitless. Yet Brendan McCarthy cfc in Kolkata, and his co-workers, run an NGO called SERVE, which says it all – Students’ Empowerment, Rights and Vision [...]

“Special procedures” is the general name given to the mechanisms used by the Human Rights Council of the UN to address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Currently, there are 31 thematic and 8 country mandates. Some examples of thematic mandates are the Special Rapporteur on the right [...]

The goal of providing universal primary education by 2015 seems to be slipping out of reach according to the Global Campaign For Education (GCE) According to a UNESCO Global Report released earlier this year, 72 million children were out of school in 2007 and 56 million would still be out of school by 2015 if [...]