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10,000 missing children in Europe

The refugee crisis is actually worse than we hear, talk about and even imagine. Almost half of the world’s displaced people are children. According to

Development Education: where we’ve been; where we need to go

This blog was written to stimulate discussion at an Irish Development Education Association seminar in Dublin on 4th May 2016. It is based upon my

Parents’ Association Tackling FGM and early childhood marriage

Tom O’Connor reports from County Kajiado, Kenya, on a local community’s response to female genital mutilation (FGM). Sometimes in life, we get an opportunity that

What does signing the Paris Agreement mean to young people in Ireland?

Today is Earth Day. And today United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is inviting leaders from all UN member states to attend the official signing ceremony

We cannot forget about mental health when striving towards the SDGs.

Two of my major passions in life right now are mental health and development issues. The two often live independently of one another in my

Inside the Calais Jungle: an activists’ journey into the ‘Refugee Crisis’

Deirdre Walsh reports on making the journey to Calais as part of the Ireland Calais Refugee Solidarity convoy in October 2015.

That Word ‘Illegal’

In these days of ‘crisis’ summit meetings, ‘floods’ of migrants ‘swarming’ at borders, ‘security’ forces ‘overwhelmed’ and Europe facing an ‘unprecedented’ crisis, words take on