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We don’t need more distorted perceptions of the Middle East, thank you very much.
Debating societies are more than simply training grounds for public speaking. Ghalya Farahat looks back on a recent debate about feminism and the Middle East that took place in Trinity College Dublin.
We cannot rest
This week marks the countdown to the global climate strike demonstration on Friday September 20th, 2019. In a series of blogs, developmenteducation.ie will be marking the week with youth-led contributions as part of a growing movement of school students and adults taking action on climate issues. Grainne O’Sullivan, a secondary
Learning by un-doing: the magic of immersion
The second reflection in the study visits and immersions programmes guide comes from Varja Lipovsek of East African NGO Twaweza (meaning ‘we can make it happen’ in Swahili) which works on enabling children to learn, citizens to exercise agency and governments to be more open and responsive in Tanzania, Kenya
5 ideas to NOT borrow from Australia’s asylum policy
developmenteducation.ie recently spoke with an old friend and colleague Phil Glendenning, director of the Edmund Rice Centre in Sydney and now president of the Refugee Council of Australia, about Australia’s offshore and onshore asylum seeker detention system.
Study visits were not driven by an ‘education-aid’ mentality
Scott Sinclair has been involved with Birmingham Development Education Centre and Tide~ Global Learning since it started and is a Tide~ trustee. Scott and his colleagues have planned and delivered numerous study visits locally in Birmingham, the UK and internationally over the past 40 years. As part of a three-part
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 for another one? Before continuing any further, four reference points are worth noting. 83% of 26,000 people that took part in a European-wide Eurobarometer survey last year view ‘fake news is a danger to democracy’.
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 emergency? A quick guide to election manifestos and pledges
‘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 international development agency, died following an April 8, 2019 car accident in Guatemala. We were both shocked and saddened to learn of the death of our former colleague Sally O’Neill Sanchez in a car accident