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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
Talking about terrorist attacks with young people
In the wake of events such as those in Christchurch last week, there often is a deluge of information from various sources – what happened, how it happened, why it happened – all of which reaches young people in the same (potentially unfiltered) way as adults. At times like this,
School strike 4 climate – live!
17:10 That’s a wrap from me on the live-blog for today. We’ll be back with more round-ups of the global reach and impact of the global school strike. Thanks for the emails and tweets and photos! We’ll ready more for sharing on the website after in the coming days once
Understanding Development within the Black Power Movement
A final-seven finalist in the 2018 Trinity College Dublin and developmenteducation.ie Development Issues series, Grace McGinnis looks at the Black Power Movement in the United States, and beyond.
Staying Warm
There are still large numbers of people sleeping outside, in the cold struggling to find any way to simply stay warm. Ethan Kudler, a final-seven finalist in the 2018 Trinity College Dublin and developmenteducation.ie Development Issues series, believes ending poverty means ending poverty everywhere, both near and far. As I
Trends Report: Top 20 resources of 2018
The results are in from the most accessed resources of 2018 in the resources library, and the findings cover teaching packs, learning resources, videos and more
What we’re reading: historian takes on Davos titans and Greta Thunberg takes on her critics
‘It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water’
Health Wealth: Inequalities in ‘well-being’ across the world
‘Health’ and ‘well-being’: does our understanding depend on if we are in a developed or developing country?
Have your say and shape our work in 2019 – annual survey time
The annual survey is one of the driving forces in listening to our readers who get to share views, ideas and suggestions on how we should work and what features we should focus on. Sharing videos, developing hands-on workshops, covering general global development issues – these (and more) have come
Public Good or Private Wealth? Oxfam’s annual check is in…
This week, Oxfam released their annual wealth check report, Public Good or Private Wealth?, highlighting the concentration of the world’s wealth. As you have probably already seen in mainstream and social media, the report finds that the 26 richest billionaires on the planet own as many assets as the poorest