“I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.” Nazi Governor of Poland Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933 blaming his country’s defeat inWorldWar I and its subsequent economic hardships on the Jews and accused the Jews of various conspiracies. Via the Nazi regime,
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The Scottish Referendum debate (on September 18th) is hotting up in more ways than one as both sides in the campaign (https://yesscotland.net and https://bettertogether.net) head for the finishing line two weeks ahead.
Political cartoonists around the world have tweeted their responses to the massacre at the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, where armed gunmen killed four French cartoonists. Here are xxx 1. Ruben Oppenhiemer (Netherlands): #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/15O4YC2KWg — Ruben L. Oppenheimer ???? (@RLOppenheimer) January 7, 2015 2. Martyn Turner of The
In recent years the rise of social media services such as Twitter and Facebook has been an important feature of protest movements for organising large groups of people to report events as they happen
An introductory guide to fiction and development
The hyper-consumption phenomenon, Black Friday, now takes place beyond the US and is growing. Toni Pyke reports on Black Friday from an afternoon in late November. It’s Friday, 24th November. It’s 9am and I’m stuck in Kampala traffic. This is nothing unusual. Much of my day is spent in traffic.
Using multimedia can be a great method for raising debate and discussion around a particular set of issues. Whether you are running a workshop, teaching a class, or just looking to brighten up a dreary Friday morning in mid-January, it is always useful to have a few in your back
Raising awareness of children’s lives in developing countries, as explored by St Ciaran’s NS, Hartstown, Dublin fifth class teacher Maeve Gilligan. We took part in the Our World Irish Aid Awards for primary schools. The theme for 2014 was “A Better Future for All the World’s Children”. We learned about
Links mentioned in the infographic Read up on global issues, visit: World’s Best News www.dochas.ie/WBN The Guardian theguardian.com/global-development Inside Out: stories from a Developing World series on The Irish Times irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/inside-out Find out what you can do in response to humanitarian crises. Visit howyoucanhelp.ie Volunteer locally or volunteer online. Visit
Most of us are aware by now that Fairtrade is an ‘alternative approach to conventional trade and is based on a partnership between producers and consumers. When farmers can sell on Fairtrade terms, it provides them with a better deal and improved terms of trade.’ Because Fairtrade fortnight is from
Age: PG It is widely acknowledged that animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry. This documentary reveals that it is also the leading cause of “deforestation, water consumption, pollution, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental ill…Yet it
Already, there are hundreds of videos available on the Sustainable Development Goals. Here, Colm Regan presents his top 5. 1. Leave No One Behind https://youtu.be/pBqe8JD62QE For us, the best place to begin. A powerful introduction outlining the issues at stake with striking images and quotes (‘because on earth, everyone has
**Update: check out the Human Rights Day 2020 live-blog. For starters, check out Amnesty International Ireland’s human rights education resources and the international HRE resources. There are resources for both primary and post-primary schools, for youth and for adult education contexts. They feature resources by theme (the death penalty, action
This guide explores many of the issues involved in study visits and immersion programmes; it offers practical suggestions and ideas for organising them as well as for reflecting on them.
Toni Pyke surveys the landscape on progress, setbacks, inequality made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic and suggests 10 things you can do on International Women’s Day
If someone had to hold the title of father of African cinema, Ousmane Sembéne would be the most compelling candidate. A video essay by Africa Is a Country and Tsogo Kupa
In the shadow of the most traumatic attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust and what Palestinian people are referring to as a ‘second Nakba’, Ciara Regan shares a three-point guide for educators and teachers looking to make sense of the latest and most extreme clash of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The cost for South Africa of hosting COP 17 will, it is estimated, amount to some 400 million rand (approx. €40 million). The funds will be used to provide meals, transport, security, conference facilities and accommodation for the expected 20,000 delegates over the 12 days of the conference. Alongside this,
“Without forest we would have no access to clean water as the source of life …Forest is like the skin covering our body.” Chut Wutty 1964-2012 When the issue of ‘Blood Wood’ in Cambodia recently came to my attention, I was brought back to the time in 2008 at the
Nearly 30 years old, the Concern Debates are Ireland’s longest running Secondary School debates competition. Since their inception in 1984 over 15,000 students, in over 250 secondary schools, from all parts of the country, have taken part. Over 120 schools and 480 students have gone toe-to-toe, arguing their way through
Across 29 countries within Africa, and more than 125 million women and girls cut, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) continues to be practiced from the Atlantic Coast to the Horn of Africa and beyond with wide variations in the percentage of girls and women cut within and across each country. More
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 autumn 2014 issue of Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review is out! Policy and Practice is a bi-annual, peer reviewed, open access (free) journal published by the Centre for Global Education (Belfast). Issue 19’s theme is titled: Finding the ‘Historically Possible’: Contexts, Limits and Possibilities in Development Education.
In 2006 well known campaigning comedian Mark Thomas approached Irish non-governmental organisation Afri having become aware of Afri’s work on the arms trade. He asked if Afri would put him in touch with a secondary school in Ireland. Afri introduced Mark to Barbara Raferty, aware of the consistent justice and
Source: Our World, Our Water animation for schools by Trócaire (2014) The 2014 Lent campaign seeks to teach young people in primary and post-primary education about the global water crisis and its impact in Ireland and Malawi. Through active and cooperative learning classes will: Explore: Water as a justice issue
This video is part of John Oliver’s wider TV programme which satirises current affairs. The setup of this video is John Oliver presenting as if part of a news station, but the news content is John’s comedic take on America’s food wastage. Facts are brought to light throughout this video
Date: Sept 14th, 2015 “For many years, the London Arms Fair (DSEI) has been showcasing arms to all kinds of governments, including known human rights abusers . And that’s not all. We’ve discovered illegal equipment being advertised. At some we found cluster bombs, at others it’s been leg irons, electric
This year will be the first time in-person Africa Day events will been held since 2019, and it promises to be the biggest celebration in Ireland to date
In 2007, Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake asked photographer James Mollison to contribute to an exhibition on Chocolate that he was curating with Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa. In Japan, Chocolate has become a luxury product with organised tastings – similar to wine. Mollison decided it would be interesting to
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