The recognition of the right to a healthy environment and the establishment of a Special Rapporteur of human rights and climate change have been long-time asks by Franciscans at the UN.
The Human Rights Council will hold its 48th regular session between from 13 September to 8 October in a mostly online format. Despite the current Covid-19 restriction, FI is working closely with its grassroots partners to make sure their concerns are raised.
More than 300 organizations around the world urge the world's highest human rights body to act on the grave situation in Colombia (disponible en Español)
Over 500 signatories representing civil society, indigenous peoples and academic institutions, call on States to act now and create this new mandate at the Human Rights Council
During this session, which took place from 21 June to 14 July, we raised a number of issues including climate change, the rights of migrants and the human rights situation in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
In 12 months since our first statements on Covid-19, the Franciscan testimonies we continue to receive show how the pandemic has driven inequality and risks becoming a missed opportunity to adopt the urgent measures needed to address the environmental crisis.
Franciscans International joins faith based communities from around the world to stand with the people of Myanmar and call on the country’s military to stop the violence, respect the sanctity of all human life, and work towards a just and lasting peace throughout the country based upon the will of the people.
We call on the government to implement the recommendations that various human rights mechanisms have made in the context of the protection of human rights of migrants, asylum seekers and human right defenders that work with them (Disponible en español)
