UN Commision on Human Rights

We bring Franciscans from the field to the UN's highest global forum for setting worldwide human rights standards. Our brothers and sisters offer reliable, first-hand testimony on human rights in their countries, lending credibility and respect to FI's advocacy in the international community. At the CHR and at the subsequent UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (Geneva, annually, August) we advocate on many country and thematic issues, including religious freedom, right to development, land reform, and indigenous and minority rights. Past FI interventions have included: support for a moratorium on the death penalty, condemnation of religious intolerance in Pakistan, protection of trafficked women and children in Togo, and advocacy for indigenous peoples in India and Mexico.

For a collection of our official texts of interventions at the Human Rights Office of the United Nations in Geneva at the 2002 UN Commission on Human Rights, look below. Past statements are also available for: 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997.

For a list of members in the FI/OP delegation for 2002, click here.