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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 movement to end Apartheid in South Africa. The flashpoint of the protest movement is remembered by many through the Dunnes Stores strike and boycott of

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 with Dóchas and IDEA, are producing a set of guidelines to support the production of DE resources in Ireland. These guidelines are a direct outcome

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 European Commission’s public consultation on combating wildlife trafficking, which closes on the 10th April. _______________________________ Events marking the first World Wildlife Day took place in

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 exists in developing countries? As part of Sightsavers development education initiatives for secondary schools, the team ran the Snap A Sight photo competition asking students

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 from Dublin, we have ‘escaped’ the ‘worst’ of the storms, but the reality of the huge impact of the damage across the country is readily

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. It was 1982 and I was in Guatemala trying to meet a man called Frank La Rue. I had been given a piece of paper

How many Africans?

It always was and still is one of the most useful and telling introductory development education activities as it tells us a lot about people’s perceptions of the world.  Imagining a world of 100 people and dividing it percentage wise between key regions and then discussing and debating a given