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Empathy – Who Cares Anyway?

Brighid Golden explores the concepts of sympathy, empathy and selective empathy and how to explore these in your teaching spaces.

Wood of Life Exhibition

The Wood of Life is a hands-on, interactive exhibition for schools, libraries and other education facilities. The exhibition also makes direct links to many of the Sustainable Development Goals

Project Honduras

Project Honduras’ is a strategy game where the primary goal is to show how important it is for communities to work together to combat climate change

The Development Education Commission

The Development Education Commission was conceived and designed to influence policy and practice in development education in Britain and Ireland.  It arose from the need

50 Picturebooks to Change the World

Thérèse Hegarty and Patricia Kennon explore picturebooks in learning contexts and how they encourage discussions of friendship, conflict, struggle, norms, points of view, difference and injustice in a distanced way, therefore allowing sensitive issues to be discussed without direct disclosures about the children’s own lives.

Blog Posts

Podcast: If Another World Is Possible, It Is Up to Us to Make It So

A Reflection on Palestinian Solidarity and Collective Action In this episode of the Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects podcast, Ciara Regan revisits her 2021 ...

Podcast: Caoimhe Butterly on why “rest is revolutionary”

Ciara Regan catches up with Caoimhe Butterly about her social justice activism and her work supporting migrants and volunteers on the island of Lesvos, Greece

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It’s international women’s day. Don’t forget to tag us now that you feel #prettypowerful

From getting out to vote and entertaining two children off school due to it being a make-shift polling station, Ciara Regan reflects on international women's ...

Punching above its weight

Juan Acevedo-Ossa explores South Africa’s case against Israel as the latest example of its ability to act as a normative superpower, exceeding the great powers ...

What does Palestine have to do with Africa?

How does Israel's current aggression on Gaza relate to Africa's own history of political violence in Uganda and Africa?

Infographics

Videos

The Port

Living in tents and over-crowded ferry terminals in the port of Athens, refugees wait for the right to continue their journeys and to seek hoped-for ...

The Camp

Reflections of some of the refugee women, men and children waiting in Eko camp in Polykastro, Greece. A short film by Caoimhe Butterly

The Border

Short documentary by Caoimhe Butterly about the quietly devastating impacts of border closures, and reflections of some of the women and men stranded in Idomeni, ...

Refuge

Short film by Caoimhe Butterly with testimonies from people stuck in indefinite limbo in Vasilika refugee camp in Northern Greece. Raneem and Leila, Ella, Mohammed ...

Natural Born Settlers

Maker Iris Zaki, a self-described liberal from Tel Aviv, wanted to get behind the politics of Israel’s controversial settlements in the occupied territories in the ...

How can Africa improve the quality of life for Africans and not other continents?

Africa has a wealth of resources in its people and natural resources yet social protection programmes have very low coverage and are underfunded - an ...

A Fair World for Children

Children and adults from Fairtrade Certified coffee producing organization in Uganda explore what child labour from their perspectives

Women at Work

They are farmers. They were raised by farmers. That’s all they have known because that’s all they have done, generation after generation - an animation ...

I am Congo – another Congo

Congo, maybe someone has already brought you back some stories, some sounds, some travel diaries. But what if there were more?