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African tales on film is an antidote to hokum diamonds

Let’s get to the point – film isn’t real. It can’t be. You take a story and fiddle with it a bit, compress it, elongate

Harassing catcalls at women is okay as long as it’s done properly, right?

This advert is part of the Snickers Australia ‘You aren’t yourself when you’re hungry’ campaign and has drawn an equal mix of laughter and rage

The Rohingya refugee making factory

If the production of refugees was an industry, Myanmar would be among the world’s market leaders. In the creation of the product, the Burmese regime

7.1 Japans – getting ready for overshoot 2014

A date before August 20th 2014 will mark Earth Overshoot Day, the approximate date on which our resource consumption for this year will exceed the

Podcast: remembering the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement

Following the passing of Nelson Mandela last December we are reminded of the efforts of the many individuals and organisations that worked on the international

Notice: new DE resource guidelines consultation event on 9th April

Are you involved in development education resource production? Or would you like to be? Then this event is for you! This year, DevelopmentEducation.ie, in collaboration

Wildlife trafficking: putting ‘the nexus’ in global development

Tom Roche makes the case that all of us – student groups, teachers, woodwork folk, parents and professionals – should be making online submissions to the

These are the sights young people in Ireland would miss the most

Did you know that two thirds of all people who are blind are female or that 80% of blindness is avoidable and 90% of blindness

The climate for activism is now

It’s hard to escape the ‘devastation’ that the ‘adverse weather conditions’ have ‘ravaged’ across the UK and Ireland, to limit it closer to home. Writing

The long fight for justice in Guatemala

Sally O’Neill reflects on Trócaire’s groundbreaking work in Guatemala which began over 30 years ago and the recent genocide trial of former dictator Rios Montt.