Edmund Rice International

41st Session of the UPR Working Group, November 2022 A submission of, for and by children of India with Edmund Rice International and PRATYEK Submitted By Edmund Rice International (ERI) is an international non-governmental organisation, founded in 2005 and with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC since 2012. ERI is supported by two Catholic Religious Congregations, […]

Universal Periodic Review of South Africa  (November 2022)  Organisations submitting the report Edmund Rice International (ERI) is an international non-governmental organization, founded in 2005 and with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC since 2012. ERI is supported by two Catholic Religious Congregations, the Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers. It works with networks of like-minded organizations […]

Submitted by Edmund Rice International is an international non-governmental organization, founded in 2005 and with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC since 2012. ERI is supported by two Catholic Religious Congregations, the Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers. It works with networks of like-minded organizations and in the countries where the two Congregations are present. ERI […]

ERI delivered six statements during the 50th Session of the UN Human Rights Council. Five of the statements were read by participants in the recent ERI training course in Geneva and were in response to the report delivered to the Council by a UN Special Rapporteurs. The statements included:-– a statement in response to the […]

Submission for the 40th Session (Third Cycle January 2022) Organisations submitting the report 1. The Justice Desk[1] (TJD), in conjunction with Edmund Rice International[2] (ERI), presents this submission concerning the human rights situation in the Republic of Zimbabwe for consideration by the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group at its 40th session (January/February 2022). 2. […]

United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review 40th Session (January-February 2022) UPR of Haiti Introduction This submission of Edmund Rice International (an NGO in consultative status with ECOSOC) is made on behalf of the Mission Frère-Haiti program, a program of the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers North America Province that was created in 2015 to […]

Civil Society Submission on Human Trafficking, Domestic and Gender-Based Violence, and the Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers  Universal Periodic Review of Ireland (39th Session – Nov 2021 Introduction This joint stakeholder submission to the Universal Periodic Review is made by a coalition of faith-based and civil society groups including Edmund Rice International (ERI), the […]

Several UPR reviews of relevance to the Edmund Rice Network took place in Geneva in January. The Christian Brothers North American Province joined with local partners to present a joint submission for Haiti, which focussed on issues of access to education and health care, child servitude and trafficking. All of these issues were the subject of recommendations […]

ERI was again active during the recently concluded Human Rights Council session. The following oral statements were delivered by members of our local networks or members of the ERI team:-– on homelessness in Northern Ireland during the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Housing– on Covid-19 and online education during the interactive dialogue with […]

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Australia’s human rights record took place virtually in Geneva in January. ERI’s joint submission focussed on children in detention and the age of criminal responsibility, the rights of indigenous people, asylum seekers and refugees, the impact of climate change, trafficking in persons and the need for a charter of […]