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What The Fact? Fighting hoaxes, fakes and myths on key human rights and human development issues
In a digital world packed with fake news and fact checkers, is there a need
World Population – a rich resource with great data and killer graphics
We’re big fans of the excellent website Our World in Data
Like their manifesto? Put it to the testo
Does your candidate support human rights for all and will work to tackle the climate
‘Has your auntie got the t-shirt?’: public call for Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects
Throughout 2019, developmenteducation.ie and IDEA, in conjunction with NCAD, are launching a project to gather 100 objects relating to previous global solidarity and development education campaigns or actions.
Acknowledging Sally O’Neill – formidable woman and former colleague
Sally O’Neill, who worked for 37 years in Latin America for Trócaire, the Irish Catholic
Talking about terrorist attacks with young people
In the wake of events such as those in Christchurch last week, there often is
The human rights community, with a few notable exceptions, has been every bit as complacent as most governments in the face of the ultimate challenge to mankind represented by climate change. The steps taken by most United Nations human rights bodies have been patently inadequate and premised on forms of incremental managerialism and proceduralism which are entirely disproportionate to the urgency and magnitude of the threat. Ticking boxes will not save humanity or the planet from impending disaster [...] human rights might not survive the coming upheaval [...] the group that will be most negatively affected across the globe are those living in poverty. Climate change is, among other things, an unconscionable assault on the poor.
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In the second part of the Living Between Trains and Drains series Toni Pyke explore the daily struggles and global realities of informal settlement living, with a focus on life in Namuwongo ‘slum’ in the city of Kampala in Uganda.
A new project that sorts facts from fiction on key global development, human rights and justice issues.
Join us and suggest items to fact check, whether they are claims by companies, politicians or celebs.
Fáilte roimh rannóg na Gaeilge ar developmenteducation.ie, a new section that is a reference point for resources, ideas and debates on global development issues through the Irish language
In Focus
New – Have you ever wanted to look for whether the SDGs are directly or indirectly included in a resource – whether a booklet, a short film, an issue-based activity pack or an NGO report?
Say hello, to the Sustainable Development Goals Explorer. Quickly find resources from our library that are relevant to each of the Sustainable Development Goals, 1 through 17.
Expect new books, videos and cutting edge global justice research reports to be added to the resource library, fortnightly.