Franciscans InternationalFI submits reports for 15th session of the UPR
FI has submitted three reports in collaboration with a range of partner organisations for the 15th session of the UPR in January 2013. The reports address our key human rights concerns in France, Burundi and Romania. The issues examined are many and ...[more]
Ireland ratifies Aarhus Convention on Environmental Matters
As of 20 June 2012, Ireland has become the latest country to ratify the Aarhus Convention of the UN Economic Commission for Europe. The Convention was adopted in June 1998 and Ireland is now its 46th party. The Aarhus Convention provides for the right of ...[more]
Reform of UN Treaty Bodies
Top UN officials have called on Member States to consider a set of proposals to strengthen the UN's treaty body system, which has doubled in size in the last twleve years and is in need of reform. The treaty bodies are the committees of independent ...[more]
FI side events at the Human Rights Council
The 20th session of the Human Rights Council comes to a close on Friday July 6th. FI has played an active role throughout in engaging with Member States, Civil Society Organisations (CSO) and the various human rights instruments of the Council to bring ...[more]
Franciscan Human Rights Defender visits FI Geneva
Sr. Namrata Joseph from India visited FI Geneva to take part in the 20th session of the Human Rights Council from the 18th to the 22nd of June. During her stay she took part in an FI side event at the UN as an expert speaker on the issue of human ...[more]
Time to rethink...
It is “time to rethink and regain control over the future of the human family”. Franciscans International is a co-signatory of a joint statement from over fifty Church and civil society leaders calling for world leaders at Rio+20 to take action on ...[more]
Franciscans at the People’s Summit
The Franciscans JPIC team in Rome, in coordination with the local Franciscan organizing committee in Brazil held a seminar for the sixty members of the Rio+20 delegation of the Franciscan Family. The seminar served as a platform for the delegates to ...[more]