Franciscans InternationalFranciscan Follow-up to Rio+20
FI joined the Environmental Justice Working Group for a strategy session in Rome from April 22-24 to promote Franciscan action and advocacy following Rio+20.
Taking a human-rights approach to environmental justice
FI co-hosted a training workshop and strategy session for NGO partners of the Mining Working Group in New York. This session led to a joint intervention before the Human Rights Council on business and human rights in the post-2015 development agenda.
Sustainable development goals must address the negative impact of mining on water
FI urged Member States to focus on the human-rights and environmental impact of mining during an oral intervention to the Co-Chairs meeting of the 3rd Session of the UN General Assembly’s Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ...
Solidarity with Victims of Torture and Forced Disappearance
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon reminds us that the International Day of Support for Victims of Torture was enacted to “express our solidarity with, and support for, the hundreds of thousands of victims of torture and their family members ...
FI denounced the jobs lost due to extractive industry and climate change
Franciscans International made an oral statement to urge the UN member states to acknowledge the short- and long-term job loss caused by the extractives development model and the failure to fight climate change. FI also urges that the goal of decent work ...
