VIVAT International, Edmund Rice International and Defensoría Edmundo Rice urgently call attention to the need to guarantee the right to participation of children and adolescents in public affairs in Peru. [read…]
The UK Government is failing to effectively address the needs of people experiencing homelessness in Northern Ireland and their right to adequate housing. Housing is a basic Human Right, but Northern Ireland is in the midst of a housing and homelessness crisis. [read…]
VIVAT International would like to express its deep concern about the human rights situation of the indigenous, Guarani people from Paraguay. As Guarani community, I would like to share with you our extreme anxiety, because of the human rights violations committed against us. [read…]
Download the document here: Oral statement CSocD60 The 60th Session of the UN Commission for Social Development 2022 Oral Statement Title: One Billion Bamboo Initiative by 2030 for Ending Hunger, Building Resilience for Food [read…]
December 2021 – On COP26 In this Issue Five Takeaways from Glasgow by Alberto Parise, MCCJ My COP26 Experience by Liam Dunne, SVD Being Fully Committed by Ida Josefine Haurand, SSpS Keeping 1.5°C Goal Alive by Paul Rahmat, SVD Climate [read…]
In response to Pope Francis’ call on Care for our Common Home and aligning with Sustainable Development Goals, the SVD congregation in the Philippines Central Province is committing to plan 100,000 seedlings of Bamboo by 2022. We are looking forward to setting an ambitious goal for planting 1 billion bamboos by 2030, collaborating with the local churches of parishes and dioceses in the Philippines. [read…]
The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) was held in Glasgow, Scotland, from October 31 – November 13, 2021. The UK government hosted the climate conference in partnership with Italy. [read…]
For the first time, VIVAT International participated in the event of a Conference of Parties to the climate agreements (Rio, Kyoto, Paris). It has been a terrific learning experience for the team that represented VIVAT at COP26. The following are five takeaways from this experience in Glasgow. [read…]
The big issue that emerged from COP26 in Glasgow is climate justice. It was not explicitly on the table at the start of the work. Still, it was smoldering under the embers of the demands of the states of the geopolitical South for a rebalancing of the funds allocated for mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions-priority for the global North-and those for adaptation to the impacts of the climate crisis, the most urgent problem for the countries of the South. [read…]
In 2009, the Sisters of the Holy Cross co-signed the Family of Holy Cross Statement on Climate Change. In this congregational statement, we state that we aim to foster models of development that care for our environment. And so, years later, when Laudato Si’ was released, our passion for addressing climate change was reignited in myself and my other sisters on the Ghana Justice Committee. [read…]
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