The impact of ‘Does It Only Happen To Me?’
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…