The Paper Bag Game

An interactive game that gives an insight into what life is like for poor people who are trying to earn a living. …

A Sunday by the Pool in Kigali

This book is a love story told amid the backdrop of the world’s largest genocide in recent times. The Rwandan …

The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe

Peter Godwin’s latest book The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe, tells about the murderous violence dished out by …

The Kite Runner

Banned under the Taliban, kite flying is once again now a national pastime in Afghanistan. The Kite Runner has probably …

The White Tiger

The White Tiger tells the story of Balram, a former rickshaw-puller’s son from rural India who has reinvented himself as …

Three Letter Plague

This book is about the cultural obstacles, misunderstandings and stigma that, especially in rural the areas that challenge the efforts …

Kings of the Water

‘Kings of The Water’ tells the story of thirty-five year old Michiel Steyn returning to South Africa after a fifteen …

Infidel

Ayaan Hirsi Ali has led an astonishing life and in her memoir Infidel she charts her experiences from a childhood …

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

This book is the first to follow the lives of ordinary people in North Korea, one of the most repressive …

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

The memoir about growing up in Africa is a well beaten track, so why did Robyn Scott feel she had …

The Year of Living Dangerously

Set in Jakarta just before and during the fall of Indonesian leader Sukarno in 1965, this novel is about a …

2010 Global Hunger Index: focus on the crisis of child undernutrition

Now in its 5th edition, the Global Hunger Index has become the standard for tracking trends in the comparative levels …

2011 Global Hunger Index: taming price spikes and excessive food price volatility

Now in its 5th edition, the Global Hunger Index has become the standard for tracking trends in the comparative levels …

Irish Aid and Development Education: Describing… Understanding… challenging. The story of human development in today’s world

This 28 page booklet from describes the character, content and various approaches used in development education in Ireland today by …

2009 Global Hunger Index: focus on financial crisis and gender inequality

Now in its 4th edition, the Global Hunger Index is 56 page a joint research report by Concern Worldwide, the …

Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review – Ireland

The working group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) sat on the 6th October 2011 to review Ireland’s overall human …

Living Planet Report 2012: Biodiversity biocapacity and better choices

The Living Planet Report (LPR) is the world’s leading, science-based analysis on the health of our only planet and the …

The Great Cotton Stitch-Up

The Great Cotton Stitch-Up is a 40-page report on the plight of African cotton farmers vis-à-vis the use of “the …

Failure Reports: learning from our mistakes

Engineers without Borders (EWB) Canada believes that success in development is not possible without taking risks and innovating – which …

Human Development Report 2011: Sustainability and Equity – A Better Future for All

The 2011 Human Development Report (HDR) themed on ‘Sustainability and Equity’, argues that sustainability and equity (e.g. social justice) must—and …

Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic

There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. The zombie apocalypse is just one of …

UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report 2011

The UNAIDS World AIDS Day report 2011 is a concise dossier on the annual progress and new possibilities for reaching …

Global Education Guidelines – a Handbook for Educators to Understand and Implement Global Education

The Global Education guidelines is meant to be a pedagogical tool to support educators from formal and non-formal sectors to …

Country of My Skull

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa oversaw three committees dealing with human rights violations, reparations and amnesty …

The Bottom Billion

In this latest book, former World Bank economist Paul Collier has identified fifty eight stagnating countries where nearly one billion …

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010

This report is the United Nations annual assessment of global progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. It analyses each Millennium …

Poverty

This animation provides basic facts around the issue of poverty.

HIV and AIDS

Animation presenting the basic facts around the issue of HIV and AIDS.

Water and Sanitation

If the World Had 100 People

An animation designed to sketch a portrait of the world in terms of population and wealth distribution. It is a …