The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child is taking a
significant step to hold governments accountable for ensuring children live
in a clean, green, healthy and sustainable world. They are inviting people
from around the world to inform the General Comment on Children’s Rights
and the Environment with a Special Focus on Climate Change (General
Comment No. 26) – official United Nations guidance on how children’s
rights are impacted by the environmental crisis and what governments
must do to uphold these rights.
Young people up to the age of 17 are invited to participate in the consultation process by
completing an online questionnaire – this is open until 30 June 2022
O God, we thank you for the life of Edmund Rice.
He opened his heart to Christ present in those oppressed by poverty and injustice.
May we follow his example of faith and generosity.
Grant us the courage and compassion of Edmund as we seek to live lives of love and service.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.