Yearly Archives: 2016

How can there be less violence and more peace in the world? Despite peacekeeping forces, demonstrations, and calls for tolerance and mutual understanding, our societies remain rife with bitterness that gives birth to violence in many forms. The 3 volumes of the Artisans of Peace Overcoming Poverty series tell the stories of partners in peace-building whose efforts have too often remained unrecognised The 3 books wer written in close collaboration with people living in poverty around the world. Part of ATD’s grassroots work involves not only inviting people in poverty to speak about their personal experiences in their own words, but…

ATD International and the Social Policy Institute of the Oxford University launched two weeks ago a participatory research project to develop new measures of poverty. The project did start with a seminar in Villarceaux, France, from 5 to 10 September 2016, with representatives of all the countries involved: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Tanzania, and the UK for the main project; and the USA, Ukraine, and France for satellite projects. The research will be carried out until June 2019. It will generate proposals about how to measure poverty, and these will be processed by statisticians to define new indicators. For ATD’s expenses of the…

ATD Ireland as well as 23 other projects around the country are supported by the Social Inclusion Division of the Department of Social Protection to mark next UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty, around next 17 October. As usual, ATD will be involved with the Irish 17 October Committee in the preparation of the national commemoration at the Human Rights and Poverty Stone in Dublin (close to the Famine Statues on Custom House Quay, Dublin 1). This commemoration will take place on Monday 17 October 2016 from 11am to 12.15pm. On the eve of the UN Day, on Sunday 16…

From 6 to 8 June, members of ATD Fourth World from four continents met for its Annual General Meeting to approve the annual report, to elect a new International Leadership Team, and to take stock of international actions carried out between 2013 and 2015. Mark Hogan, founding member of the Board of ATD Ireland attended the meeting on behalf  of all of us in Dublin. The  2013 and 2015 period was globally notable for decisions affecting the future of humanity such as the United Nations’ adoption of Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change. ATD Fourth World contributed…

Tapori is a worldwide network of children from all backgrounds whose motto is: "We want all children to have the same opportunities." ATD International volunteers based in Geneva, Switzerland, are facilitating and coordinating this network. Every two months Tapori groups around the world recieve a Tapori newsletter suggesting various activities! The most recent letter is inviting children to have their say about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals! Letter on the 17 SDGs - Activity sheet on the 17 SDGs Children everywhere dream of a world where there’s no more poverty, where each child can live in peace and have friends. They…

The HLPF 2016 is now over. ATD Ireland joined 230 NGOs and CSO worlwide at the end of the 10 days of debate to call on the UN ECOSOC for a new way to organise HLPF 2017! Read the call here! Read also ATD's imput in the 2016 annual Social Watch report "Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2016": Leaving no one behind calls for far-reaching changes in the way development agencies operate (direct access to PDF) The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) is United Nations central platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and…

Join our 2017 Campaign team! Discover ATD and support its work! 3 month internship starting in September 2016 (dates are flexible) We are seeking a motivated intern to join our team and help us in our upcoming campaigns.   The intern will have the opportunity to get first hand work experience in the Human Rights field by being involved with the organisation of a number of events and campaigns,  learning from ATD long-term volun-teers and working through a grassroots level approach to poverty. The intern will support the team and participate in the organisation of several major events and campaigns - see…

Ahead of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (#HLPF2016 - see*) at the United Nations from 11th to 20th July 2016, ATD Ireland reiterates its call, first launched on Valentine's Day 2016, and asking on this day all  #GE16 candidates to be ready to show their #Hearts4Justice! Dear Taoiseach, dear Ministers, dear TDs, Ahead of #HLPF2016, the first UN major forum after the start of Agenda 2030, take some time to tell Irish citizens of your commitments to the 17 #GlobalGoals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development agreed on by Ireland in September 2015. All Irish stakeholders have to contribute…

The 'Magnificent 17' are riding into Dublin Town on Monday 6 June 2016 to promote the 17 Global Goals for better future for people and the planet: They will raise awareness of the important 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals, They will also raise money for anti-poverty grass-roots initiatives in the Central African Republic. The "Magnificent 17" will gather at the entrance of St. Stephen's Green at 1 pm on Monday 6 June on 'horse back' before they dismount and set off come hail, rain or shine on the Vhi's Dublin Women's Mini-Marathon. The 'Magnificent 17' are friends and volunteers of All…

From 23rd to 24th May 2016, the United Nations will convene the first ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS). For over two years already, it has been seeking input from humanitarian NGOs, volunteers, government officials, and people themselves affected by humanitarian crises. One global consultation took place from October 14 – 16. The goal is “to look for global solutions to [such] global challenges” of climate change, food and energy insecurity, and water scarcity. Aid should be distributed in ways that reinforce community solidarity, without pitting people against one another. This is recommendation No.4 of ATD’s contribution entitled, “How humanitarian aid can…