Edmund Rice International

Afghan refugee children Photo UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe The Committee on the Rights on the Child held its 60th session in Geneva May 20 – June 15.  The Australia Government reported against the Convention on the Rights of the Child on June 4 & 5 and was open to question by the Committee.  Edmund Rice International […]

The work of the Christian Brothers in providing psycho-social and educational support to young people traumatized by war in Sierra Leone was acknowledged in a recent article in the local tabloid newspaper “We Yone”. Under the banner headline “Christian Brothers – Championing the Cause of Disadvantaged Children” the article featured an interview with David Yambusu […]

Reports are coming out of the Philippines concerning the presence of child soldiers with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Humanitarian law proscribes the recruitment, whether voluntary or forced, of young people under the age of 15 into military units. Currently, the MILF is locked in conflict with government forces on the island of Mindanao. […]

A recent Amnesty International Report on human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) draws attention to the continuing perpetration of violence against children and young people in North Kivu. At its height some years ago the on-going conflict in the DRC involved about 30, 000 children and young people, some as […]