All 100 Objects

The ball of string is something most development education practitioners will be familiar with….

More than 65m people are forcibly displaced today – the highest number ever recorded. Three countries produce half the world’s refugees – Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia.

Approximately 75 million people work to make our clothes. 80% of them are women between the ages of 18 and 35. However, the majority of people who make clothes…

On 1 July 1990 Nelson Mandela arrived in Dublin to fulfil a promise he had made. Two years previously while in jail in South Africa Nelson Mandela was installed as a freeman…

A group of young people from Bray came together to produce the Boats at Sea public art
installation on the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria.

The aim of this project was to create awareness of global development issues and the inter-dependence between people on this planet.

The notebook of a journalist documents facts, details, comments and stories, as they happen.

In 1999, a referendum for independence took place in East Timor in which the people overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia.

This leaflet is part of a broader international context from which the Dóchas Code of Conduct on Images and Messages emerged in 2007.

These fittings from the Greenpeace boat, the Rainbow Warrior, were taken off the vessel as it was being prepared to be sunk to serve biodiversity as an artificial reef.

These wristbands were part of a pack which marked the Council of Europe’s new All Different – All Equal campaign.

1,000 copies of the Be Well Times, a “for news we would like to read” venture from Hi-Rez Youth Centre, were dropped on the town of Bray in County Wicklow…

The World’s Best News, an initiative by Dóchas, collates stories of ‘positive change’ from across the globe…

The ‘O’Malley Kenny Report’ was commissioned by the Dóchas Development Education Action Group to obtain an overview of the provision of development education in Ireland

World Survival: The Third World Struggle is Ireland’s first private education company publication (The O’Brien Press) relating to development education.

Written by John Hammond at the CDU in Dublin, A Global Curriculum? Development Education and the Junior Certificate sought to respond to the optimism and possibilities…

Founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, Band Aid was a charity super-group featuring mainly Irish and British musicians.

The Trócaire/Poetry Ireland collection of poems from their annual competition uses poetry to raise awareness about the global justice issues in contemporary times.

The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico.

Ireland has been involved in peacekeeping missions since the 1950s in dozens of countries on behalf of the United Nations, since it joined in 1955…

Michael Kelly was born in Tullamore, Ireland in 1929. After his ordination he moved to Zambia where he has lived and worked for more than 50 years…

The two pages exhibited from the summary paper are from Ireland’s first ever White Paper on Irish Aid…

Painted by Marjorie Laville-Pain for Trócaire, ‘Art and Poetry – An emotional journey’ has drawn attention to gender-based violence at home and abroad.

Between 27th December 2008 and 14th January 2009, Israel launched a massive and unprecedented assault on the Palestinian Gaza Strip…

Developed as part of a long-term alliance between various local, regional and international NGOs in Ireland following a rise in deaths at sea on the Mediterranean…

Bewley’s is the first Irish company to agree to source raw materials on Fairtrade terms.

Ireland is a leader in the global response to HIV and AIDS…

Political cartoons have a lot to say about the state of the world…

36 years ago, this cartoon by Martyn Turner appeared on the cover of the first edition of 80:20 Development in an Unequal World – then titled 75:25

Over two billion people in the world depend on stoves to cook their meals every day. The vast majority are based in developing countries…