Human Rights Special Procedures – what are they?
“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…
Human Rights and Climate Change
I attended the Human Rights Council session on “Human Rights and Climate Change” recently. The session took the form of a short input from a range of experts on different…
Big Doings in the Big Apple – New York, May 2 – 10, 2009
New York is famous for its ‘buzz’. Brian Bond and I spent a week there, not sampling the lifestyle but visiting the warren of offices, centres, meeting rooms, and halls…
Miguel Barcelo and Geneva Ceiling
I spent almost all of Friday, December 12th, in the new Human Rights Council chamber at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. A special commemorative session to mark the 60th…
United Nations Human Rights Conference
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the first universal statement on the basic principles of the human rights to which…
UNESCO NGO Meeting
The ERI Geneva Team and Kevin Cawley from New York attended the 61st UN NGO meeting in Paris recently. There were over 300 NGOs represented. Edmund Rice International does not…