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Women’s Rights: Reality bites

Two quotes and a graphic for International Women’s Day. President Michael D. Higgins (May 24th, 2016) Women and Girls – Catalysing Action to Achieve Gender Equality at the World Humanitarian Summit, Istanbul: ‘A healthy society is, by definition, unachievable if it is based on the marginalisation of women and girls’

Hygge and Happiness: Social Justice and the Danes

As I am sure most are aware from the flooded bookshelves of your local bookshop, ‘Hygge’ is the newest phenomena replacing the cold empty space where ‘mindfulness’ once sat. Hygge is a Danish concept meaning ‘cosiness’ and it is about (from what we are told) enjoying the ‘little’ things in

Front cover of Duncan Green's book How Change Happens

Exploring Change – a review of How Change Happens by Duncan Green

Duncan Green’s How Change Happens  (Oxford University Press 2016) is an excellent resource for a variety of conceptual and practical reasons.  It is also a book of, and for, our times, not only for its perceptive analysis of the change process as perceived by activists but also as a potential

It is impossible to ignore or turn off from these events

Wow! What a year it’s been so far, and judging by the daily news feeds across mainstream and social media – ‘it ‘ain’t over, not by a long shot,’ as the American’s might say. While we continue to reel over the realities and future uncertainties of what ‘Brexit’ may pose

Songs of protest: The Man Don’t Give a F…

So, we were having the usual chats over lunch in the office and the subject of music came up – more specifically protest songs. There’s just something about them: everyone has their favourite. However, after discovering that one of the deved.ie team (who shall remain nameless) hadn’t heard of Billy

Solidarity actions with refugee children in Europe – an update

Back in May of this year I wrote a blog about the 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees who have disappeared since reaching Europe, travelling without the care of an adult thereby making them highly vulnerable. I said that the blog would be a starting point for me on the issue of