Author: ATD Ireland

Sunday 17 October, the Irish event marking the UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty was held in Custom’s House Quay in Dublin.  The theme for this year’s event ‘Its Time to Change and End Persistent Poverty’ was inspired by condensing the international theme “Building Forward Together: Ending Persistent Poverty, Respecting all People and our Planet” and focusing on its core message - which we interpreted as - the radical need for ‘change’, now more so than ever.  We visualised this as a butterfly emerging from a cocoon.  The concept of the butterfly emerging from its cocoon stemmed from the idea…

All Together in Dignity Fourth World (ATD Fourth World) is an international human-rights movement that works through grass-roots projects in partnership with people living in poverty. ATD Ireland is excited to announce a new educational resource and workshop called ‘The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty.’ This educational tool seeks to raise awareness and open minds to the daily realities of poverty. The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty Educational Resource will be publicly launched on the 17th September 2021 at 2pm over Zoom, click here to register with us. Invitation to this new event launch: Time: Sep 17, 2021 02:00 PM Dublin Location: Online…

Beginning on the 12th July ATD, with the help of artist Katherine Sankey, has been holding a series of art workshops in Mountjoy Square Park which are designed to create clay sculptures as a means to reflect the issue of socio-economic discrimination. These workshops aim to bring to the fore the creative potential of those with direct experience of living in poverty, allowing them to depict what socio-economic discrimination means to them. ATD is currently campaigning to have socio-economic discrimination recognised as the tenth ground of discrimination in the Irish Equal Status Act. ATD community activist Andrew, who has been an…

理解各种形式的贫困：英国贫困的参与性研究 Abstract Backed by an international research team from the University of Oxford and the International Movement ATD Fourth World, ATD Fourth World UK(link) has produced an inspiring report ‘Understanding Poverty in All its Forms: A participatory research study into poverty in the UK’. (link)  This report is about the experience of poverty in all its forms in the UK. Although there have been many reports about poverty, this one is different. Instead of being led by policy makers or academic experts, this research has involved those experiencing poverty throughout the process. People with experience of poverty have led, shaped and written…

On 16th June, the working group on introducing socio-economic status into Irish equality legislation, of which ATD Ireland is a member, met over Zoom with Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Roderic O’Gorman. the logos of the working group The working group is made up of ATD Ireland, the European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland (EAPN Ireland), the Independent Living Movement Ireland (ILMI) and the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU). The working group has been campaigning for the introduction of socio-economic status as a ground for discrimination in Irish equality legislation for several years. In their letter with Minister…

On 24th June 2020, the Irish Times printed an article featuring long term friend of ATD Mark, about our campaign to have Socio-Economic Discrinmination recognised in Irish equality legislation. Find the original article here.   Following on from this, Mark writes below about how the campaign has been informed by our report, 'Does It Only Happen To Me?'. Last summer, ATD Ireland released a devastating report documenting how people in poverty experience discrimination simply because they are poor. In early October, the Irish government announced that the Children and Equality Department will begin a public consultation on making “socio-economic discrimination” illegal under…

ATD General Assembly 2021: ATD Fourth World is a human rights movement dedicated to the eradication of extreme poverty and which works in over 30 countries in the global south and north. To help oversee and support this worldwide engagement, ATD Fourth World has an international Board of Directors which has a unifying and governance role. ATD Fourth World International highly recommends to read our uplifting annual report 'Reinventing Our World Starting from People Living in Poverty'. (click here to download the full report.) The Board Directors, together with representatives from the different countries in which ATD Fourth World works, meet…

On 28th May, the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland's Working Group for Basic Necessities, which ATD Ireland is a member of, published a briefing note, “Addressing the Problem of Income Inadequacy and Meeting Basic Needs”, highlighting the link between income inadequacy and the increasing demand from people for basic necessities as provided by the Community and Voluntary sector. The briefing note reveals how low-income households are being forced to make difficult choices, such as paying rent and utility bills, leaving little remaining income for other expenses. As a result, people are having to rely on supports provided by charities and community organisations…

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