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Dublin, Christmas 2015 The story of the nativity is a story about hope and change coming from a vulnerable family. 2015 was one of these years with many stories calling for big changes and giving hope. On Christmas eve, one motto of these calls for a needed transformative process keeps coming back in our minds: to change everything, we need everyone. This motto started to trend after being used in the open letter published in The Guardian (Sunday 7 September 2014) by a group of major global NGOs ahead of the 2014 People's Climate March : "There is only one ingredient that…

On 20th December 2015, International Human Solidarity Day, ATD Ireland and other members of the Irish 17 October Committee launched its 2016 #EndPoverty Calendar. In 2015, a number of high level summits formulated new approaches and new goals to #EndPoverty, protect the planet and limit the #ClimateChange. These events provided all of us with an opportunity to reshape our priorities, and to re-think our place in the world. In 2016, let’s start the work, to get the job done by 2030! Let's make every day, an #EndPoverty day! Here, you can now download a pdf version of this calendar! This calendar…

In advance of this year’s Human Rights Day, ATD and Misean Cara launch a new handbook "Make Human Rights Work" to help everyone take action for human rights. For the first time in history, the handbook translates a set of United Nations (UN) principles on human rights and poverty situations into action points that we all can use to affect change. Spearheaded by Franciscans International and ATD International, with support from Irish Aid through Misean Cara, and Edmund Rice Development, dozens of grassroots organisations worldwide, and individuals with a lived experience of poverty, have created a handbook to make human rights…

Discover how ATD will be involved in #COP21 in Ireland and in France:  ATD's #COP21 programme! Follow ATD International advocacy at the #COP21: Linking climate action and sustainable development - never without, or against, people living in poverty. Encouraging all stakeholders to exploit synergies between climate change responses and sustainable development strategies, ATD Fourth World’s international advocacy emphasizes 5 key recommendations: Place a special emphasis on the bottom 20% to make sure that no one is left behind. In other words, targets should be considered achieved only if they are met for all relevant income and social groups, including the most…

ATD is organising a number of different events to mark Human Rights Day 2015, which falls on 10th December. In the lead-up to Human Rights Day, ATD will welcome two special international guests to Ireland, who will be involved in the organisation’s events between 7th and 9th December: : Janet Nelson – who, after many positions within UNICEF, recently became Vice-President of ATD International; and Bruno Tardieu, a member of ATD International Volunteer Corps, who has worked in the USA and France, and is the author of a new book about ATD. To kickstart ATD Ireland’s programme of events for Human…

Breaking News! Discover now the #Croke21 Declaration, the message from a #COP21 Cross- Community Climate Summit! “Croke Park” the home of Gaelic Games and of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) stadium with capacity of 82,300, making it the third largest stadium in Europe. The stadium is located in the North Inner City of Dublin which is one of the most deprived area of the Irish capital. ATD's project #Croke21 - A Community Climate Summit aims to involve and mobilise people living in the Croke Park area in the debates and challenges of the COP21 Summit. It will also enable to a small…

Because ATD Fourth World’s international center is located on the outskirts of Paris, messages of solidarity have poured in from our members and friends since the attacks on November 13. Some messages are from people in Beirut, still reeling from the attack there on November 12. Others made connections to situations they lived through in the United States on September 11, 2001, in Vietnam during the war there, or in Rwanda during the genocide. One of our active members in London is a woman who lives in poverty. She sent us many messages over the weekend, first writing, “Please can someone…

« Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – Preamble - This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognize that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. » These are the first words of the 2030 Agenda, prepared with the support of the Irish Mission at the United Nations and adopted by the Irish State, as one of the Member States of the UN, on the 25 September 2015…

As a point of reference for of Budget 2016, ATD Ireland with all Community Platform members present ‘four tests for Budget 2016’. These tests build on the proposals in The Future Perspective of the Community Platform published in June 2015. People on low incomes, women and minorities, who gained least in the boom years, have suffered most in the recession.  Over a quarter of the population are now officially counted as experiencing deprivation, including many who are working, because of unemployment and service and welfare cuts. Budget 2016 must urgently address the widespread suffering reported by our members and the people…

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