“We are Transition Year students from Presentation College, Bray and what we would like to share with you is real and happening now. We and our classmates were shocked and angry upon hearing these facts.” *This blog was written by Patryk Labuzek, Andrew Dore and Conor Davenport as part of
In a developmenteducation.ie and 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World exclusive, Colm Regan caught up with Aboriginal leader and campaigner Patrick Dodson during the summer of 2014 on the “unfinished business” of reconciliation and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in anticipation of the forthcoming draft constitution
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 wants to give her family a chance – every migrant who risks their lives in the Mediterranean has a story that any European would recognise.
This is the first report issued under the UPR mechanism that has reviewed Ireland’s human rights record. Where single UN committee’s can review certain aspects of a state’s performance, such as under civil and political rights, the Review seeks to get a general spread of human rights issues and problems
What does it mean to be hungry? The Food and Agriculture Organisation defines ‘chronic hunger’ as: People who are chronically hungry are undernourished. They don’t eat enough to get the energy they need to lead active lives. Their undernourishment makes it hard to study, work or otherwise perform physical activities.
Today Aboriginals in Australia face many disadvantages. In 2008 the Australian Human Rights Commission published ‘Face the Facts’ which explores and explaines the common issues surrounding the Aboriginal Community in Australia. The publication highlights statistics in areas including health; education; employment; housing and contact with criminal justice and welfare systems.
‘At what point does the dominant society cease to operate as a colonial invader and come to terms with the fact that the Aboriginal and Islander peoples of this land will continue to assert ownership and authority of the lands, rivers and seas of their traditional domain?’ Pat Dodson, Aboriginal
The two main ethnic groups in Rwanda are divided between ethnic Hutus (who make up 85% of the population) and the Tutsi minority, which formed the traditional elite. On 6 April 1994, the plane carrying the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down above Kigali airport. Within hours,
Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) are those that are not passed from person to person. Often, they are referred to as chronic diseases, in that they progress slowly and have a long duration – think diabetes, stroke, asthma, heart attack, obesity, high blood pressure, cancer. These are not the classic ‘diseases of poverty’
Give & Take – Mostly Take? The basic idea behind 5:50:500 is simple: Every year, for the past 10 years aid given to the Developing World by non-governmental agencies (voluntary aid) has amounted to at least $5 billion. Estimates vary from a low of $5 billion to a high of
INTRODUCTORY ICE-BREAKERS Who am I? Ask participants to sit in a circle. Explain that you are now going to call out some categories of people. Anyone belonging to a particular category must move quickly to sit in the middle of the circle. If they belong to the next category mentioned
This feature explores development aid and the various debates around it, from the philosophical basis behind aid to the history of development aid and some of the major defences and criticisms of aid.
A new report – health workers index – published by UK NGO Save the Children lists those countries worldwide in which it is most dangerous to be a sick child. No great surprises in the results; at the bottom lie Chad, Somalia, LAO PDR, Ethiopia and, unforgivably Nigeria. At the
Female Genital Mutilation is a hugely contentious issue worldwide. According to a report published by the WHO, UNESCO, UNIFEM and others, FGM is practiced in 28 African countries, in parts of Asia and the Middle East. However, it is increasingly found in Europe, Canada, the US, Australia and Asia –
A new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) entitled the Global Study on Homicide, outlines that the total number of annual deaths as a result of homicide globally in 2010 as estimated at 468,000 people. More than a third of these statistics – 36 per
Blog written by Jonah Busch and cross-posted from the Center for Global Development (CGD, USA). This quick summary of the key messages from the report is useful for researchers, teachers, activists and students. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an extraordinary undertaking. Hundreds of scientists volunteer to put their
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
**APPLICATIONS CLOSING TOMORROW FRIDAY 5TH JUNE 2015** “This new programme will support young people to be agents of change, where they are empowered to be active global citizens contributing to building a world of justice, equity, and dignity.” National Youth Council of Ireland, together with Irish Aid in the Department
Development education is a cross curricular activity. That’s not to say that it can’t be taught in a single subject area – many teachers use DE as part of completing curriculum strands or as stimulus material for energising students or building class projects. DE can be flexibly used in many
https://youtu.be/PYnL5oUePM8If you were Nando’s and you were receiving threats from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF loyalists, would you have pulled your viral advert from television? South Africa did. Update: Nando’s refuses to apologise to Mugabe More resources: The Zimbabwean (UK) Food for thought – Nando’s and dictators – by
20 year old Nigerian Chibundu Onuzo is currently in her final year in King’s College London studying history. Not only is she busy writing essays, attending lectures and working on her dissertation, she is also hard at work promoting her debut novel ‘The Spider King’s Daughter’. In February 2011, Onuzo
Shuga – an MTV production in collaboration with UNICEF and other partners, including the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) – is a hard-hitting drama series based in Nairobi, Kenya. The six-part series follows the lives, loves and sometimes complicated sexual relations of young Kenyans. The show depicts
The latest roundup of videos we’ve been watching this week. Bahia Shehab | Egypt At the Irish Development Education (IDEA) annual conference last week, I had the pleasure of hearing the wonderfully inspiring Bahia Shehab speak about her work as an artist – and not just any artist. Although connected
Currently, we are (over)dependent on fossil fuels to heat our homes, run our cars, power our offices, industry and manufacturing, and respond to our insatiable desire to power all of our electrical goods
Much as I try, I am unable to switch off from the social and mainstream media storm surrounding ‘POTUS’ (if you use Twitter you’ll know who this is) and his Twitter frenzies (but for a glorious 11 minutes). I have to confess though, that I am not on Twitter and
World population stood at 1 billion in 1804, increased to 3 billion by 1959, 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in 1987 and just 12 years later in 1999 it amounted to 6 billion. In October 2011, the world reached a population figure of 7 billion people, fuelling another debate
Are those involved in Black Lives Matter hijacking peaceful protests and turning them into vicious, brutal riots, as claimed by conservative leaders (and their supporters) in the US? ‘What The Fact?’ investigates.
Follow the Human Rights Day 2020 live-blog for happenings and activities throughout the day during a time of unprecedented change during the first year of a Covid-19 world
“The truth about AIDS is of course a general truth about what the world is like today. In other words: what we allow the world to look like.” Henning Mankell, 2004 https://www.youtube.com/embed/9N3ePMe9XOU It has been almost 30 years since HIV and AIDS was first recognised and diagnosed. HIV and AIDS
First appearing in 2005 in issue 92, Granta magazine published ‘The View from Africa’ – a collection of memoir and reportage that sought to challenge the all too typical labelling and mono-symbolism drenched on the continent of Africa as a single homogenous place where everybody is the same. It may
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