
World Refugee Day 2026: 5 resources for teaching refugees, migration and solidarity
World Refugee Day takes place each year on 20 June. To mark the day, we’ve gathered five resources from the DevelopmentEducation.ie library to support teachers,

World Refugee Day takes place each year on 20 June. To mark the day, we’ve gathered five resources from the DevelopmentEducation.ie library to support teachers,

‘It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water’

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

1. Still The Most Shocking Second A Day Video (child refugees) Following on from their most shocking

The refugee crisis is actually worse than we hear, talk about and even imagine. Almost half of the world’s displaced people are children. According to

Eimhin O’Reilly’s blog was a runner up in the 2015 Trinity College Dublin and developmenteducation.ie Development Issues blog series. All photography courtesy of Alexandre© . ………………………………………………………………………………
The Guardian newspaper captured the essence of the issue in its editorial of April 21st: ‘A proud father who is fleeing persecution, a mother who