Edmund Rice International

Global Financial Integrity (GFI) today joined over 40,000 people from around the world calling on G20 leaders to end tax haven secrecy when they meet this week in Cannes, France. The 40,000+ signatures were collected by the End Tax Haven Secrecy campaign, which today handed over a letter urging French President Nicholas Sarkozy—the current G20 [...]

On October 24 and 25, a Christian Brothers’ Oceania Province training workshop in advocacy was conducted in which the Province Directors of Formation- Mary Murphy, Ministry- Peter Clinch and Networking/Communication-Bernie Gartland met with the Regional Coordinators of Ministry and Formation. Another person, already working for the province from each region, was invited to attend and [...]

Cardinal Peter Turkson President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and Bishop Mario Toso, Secretary to the Council together with Leonardo Becchetti, professor of political economy at the Roman University of “Tor Vergata” recently spoke at the presentation of a Vatican statement on the current global financial crisis entitled  ”Towards reforming the international [...]

The United Nations Climate Change Conference  COP 17 / CMP 7, 28 November – 9 will take place in Durban, South Africa in December 2011  (This article appeared in the Carbon Rangers Newsletter edited by br Kevin Cawley and is based on material taken from the UN Website for the Conference.)   The United Nations [...]

 It has recently been announced that Peter Harney, currently the Deputy Province Leader of the Christian Brothers’ Oceania Province and a member of the ERI Board, has been appointed as member of the ERI team. Peter expects to move to Geneva to join the Gaillard community and take up his position with ERI in February [...]

So disturbed by ruin of the region, Alberta’s Catholic bishop has written a lengthy letter arguing that the tar sands development “cannot be morally justified.” David Ebner, January 27, 2009, The Globe and Mail — The oil sands, hated by environmentalists and buffeted by plunging oil prices, now face the opposition of a representative of [...]

The Christian Brothers have decided they cannot remain silent in the face of recent events in Bolivia. The Bolivian government has decided to build a road through a National Park which is home to some sixteen thousand indigenous people.  Opponents of the project claim that the decision violates the Bolivian Constitution and existing laws such [...]

As reported in a recent newsletter Br Denis Claivaz has been appointed to the Congregational Leadership Team of the Presentation Brothers and will finish in Geneva and move to Toronto some time in the next few weeks. Here he reflects on his time with ERI. The establishment of ERI in 2007 to engage in advocacy [...]

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 appointment of a ‘contact person’ in each province or region. Again in order to carry out the role, the contact person needs the support and [...]

“Already the MDGs have helped lift millions of people out of poverty, save countless children’s lives and ensure that they attend school” said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the launch of the Millennium Development Goals Report 2011 in Geneva earlier this month. “They have reduced maternal deaths, expanded opportunities for women, increased access to [...]