human rights

Equality and human rights is a natural area where Local Development Companies (LDCs) can drive development, integrating it as practice across the community, state sector and in our local communities - to the benefit of those we serve.

Professor Siobhan Mullally is the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children and she also supervised Andrew Forde when he was studying for his PhD. She spoke at the launch of his book.

Author with background in European conflict resolution publishes first book

Community leaders and residents in Dolphin House and Park, located just off the South Circular Road in Dublin's South Inner City, have had enough of broken promises, politicians saying money is no problem, and ministers saying planning could be fast-tracked.

John McCafferty says that Árainn Mhór island in Co. Donegal would welcome another 100 or more people fleeing war and strife. He objects as an Irish person, proud of our history, to arson as a form of protest and does not understand why anyone would engage in such acts.

Why can’t people in wheelchairs or who are almost immobile go to the gym? Answer: They can, as the No Barriers Foundation in Letterkenny has proven. The cost – a tenth of what private providers would likely charge. A radical transformation would unfold if the Government and wider society embraced the rights based model of disability, argues Allen Meagher in his editorial. Our spring edition highlights three rights-based projects that show how change happens when we remove barriers to disability. Meagher also talks about the value of social enterprises. He points to volunteers filling gaps when it comes to food poverty. And he asks – what else should we be doing about Israel’s genocidal attacks on Palestine?

Around two hundred people took part in a rally at the entrance to Shannon Airport on Sunday, November 12, at which the names of children killed by weapons that may have passed through the airport were read out by peace activists.

AS HUMAN rights in many parts of the world continue to be threatened, the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival is set to celebrate those who defend the rights of all global citizens.