Author: Irish End Poverty Day Committee
Learning From People Who Think Night and Day About Poverty – message of ATD International for the UN Day
For centuries, people around the world have built memorials to both suffering and heroism. We hold ceremonies to honor those who have endured injustice or died fighting it. Through such memorials and ceremonies, we remind ourselves of war, slavery, oppression, and genocide with the hope: “never again.” . But when do we recall the suffering and injustice that extreme poverty… Read more →
Dublin marks UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty!
Age Action – Budget 2015 – Irish Local Development Network Roma Rights Forum – SAOL Project – Maynooth Social Justice Tallaght Travellers Youth Service – Y Factor UN Day Commemoration at the Human Rights and Poverty Stone and 16 October is World Food Day: the Gorta-Self Help Africa annual conference will address rural poverty issues! Read more →
17 October 2014 on UN websites: Good to visit!
UN Secretary-General’s Message for 2014 Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Website United Nation’s main Website UNDP Twitter challenge: Read more →
The Social Justice Week at the Maynooth University: a Call to Action!
The Social Justice Week at the Maynooth University , now in its fourth year, runs from Monday 13th to Sunday 19th October. A range of informative and creative activities are planned for the week which coincides with internationally significant dates – International Day of Rural Women (15 October), World Food Day (16 October) and International Day for the Eradication of… Read more →
UNESCO debates the 2014 Theme in Paris: No one left behind? Extreme poverty in the post-2015 agenda
A roundtable is organized in Paris on Tuesday, 14 October 2014 (2pm to 6pm) by UNESCO in cooperation with the NGO ATD Fourth World and the International Social Science Council (ISSC). With widespread recognition that many of the advances made under the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) have failed to benefit the most impoverished and socially excluded communities, how can local,… Read more →
16 October is World Food Day: Gorta Self Help Africa Conference will address the contribution of family farming in eradicating rural poverty and hunger
This year’s Gorta Self Help Africa World Food Day Conference www.worldfoodday.ie will focus on the contribution of family farming in eradicating hunger, reducing rural poverty, and achieving food security and nutrition through sustainable agricultural production and the development of rural areas. With insights from scientists and field practitioners, the conference will discuss the challenges faced by smallholders and help identify… Read more →
Art works to depict poverty from local to global at Lus na Gréine Family Resource Centre in Granard
Lus na Gréine Family Resource Centre, Granard, Co. Longford in collaboration with its Art Group will put on a Photographic/Artistic Exhibition depicting images of poverty from local to global. This is intended to raise awareness of the plight of people facing poverty and forgotten in our world. It will address corruption and injustice through art, photography and film. The Art… Read more →
MEP’s Intergroup on “Extreme Poverty and Human Rights” meets to mark UN Day
The new European Parliament has just started its new mandate and the new European Commission is not yet in place. It is an excellent time to assess past policies and reflect on what is needed for the future, with those who have concrete experience of these issues and of working with Europe’s most deprived. To mark UN Day, MEP Sylvie… Read more →
Music Concert to Make Poverty History – Treo Nua, Portlaoise
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