Franciscans InternationalAgro-Ecology: FI Parallel Event at Rio+20
On June 16th, FI will host the parallel event "Agro-ecological Farming can Nourish the World: Agro-ecology in Practice" at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in partnership with Edmund Rice International, Dominicans for Justice ...[more]
Child Advocates at the Human Rights Council
At the end of March, Edmund Rice International, one of the partner organisations of the FI Geneva office, hosted a group of three children from the Edmund Rice Network in India. Vijay Kumar (17), Rikida Shadap (16), and Aditya Garg (15) came to lobby UN ...[more]
Domestic Workers' Rights
Sr. Nisha Mathew fsm, the coordinator of Karnataka Domestic Workers Movement (KDWM), was presented with the Karnataka Ratna - the hightest civilian honour of the state of Karnataka - on the occasion of Domestic Workers Day by the Karnataka Pradesh ...[more]
Crisis in Sudan
FI New York recently hosted Sharon de Souza, Tyler Balding and Stefan Marx from the Diocese of El Obeid in Sudan. The conflict currently raging in central Sudan has created a humanitarian crisis of such magnitude that it has been described as ‘the next ...[more]
FI submits UPR reports on Zambia, Pakistan, Benin, Peru and Sri Lanka
In view of the upcoming 14th session of the UPR in October, FI has submitted reports on the situation of human rights in Zambia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Japan, Benin and Peru with the collaboration of Franciscans working at the grassroots level. The reports ...[more]
Pillay: New restrictions on NGOs are undermining human rights
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a press release last week detailing High Commissioner Navi Pillay's deep concern about the number of current or recent moves by governments to limit the freedom of NGOs and other civil society ...[more]
FI submits UPR report on Japan
In preparation for the UPR session in October 2012, FI submitted a UPR report on Japan in collaboration with the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. The main issues addressed in the submission are rights of migrant workers, ...[more]