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Ireland is at risk of being out of sync with European equality standards on socio-economic ground. A research published in October 2016 recommends the addition of a new ground under equality law that will prohibit discrimination and promote equality on the basis of socio-economic status. Entitled ’An analysis of the introduction of socio-economic status as a discrimination ground’, the report examines the existence and use of the ground in equality law and policies across Europe. The Equality and Rights Alliance (ERA) which commissioned the report called on the Irish Government to introduce a new socio-economic status ground in equality legislation following…

ATD Ireland with all the members Community Platform will judge Budget 2017 to be announced next week particularly in terms of the following four tests: Test 1: Will Budget 2017 redistribute income towards the poorest 20% Test 2: Will Budget 2017 strengthen access to quality employment? Test 3: Will Budget 2017 restore and strengthen public services which are of particular importance to people on low income? Test 4: Will the impact of Budget 2017 be assessed to ensure that all provisions reduce poverty and inequality? In particular, ATD Ireland would recommend that the Budget 2017: Sets aside funding to support the…

On Peace Day (21 September) and on the very days of the first anniversary of the SDGs members of ATD Ireland celbrated the historic 2030 Agenda in different ways: -   with volunteers from many NGOs we met the public in Grafton Street to raise awareness about this transformative agenda, -  with many ATD volunteers we planned a series of “Leave No One Behind” conversations with Irish citizens to be run in 2017, - with a wide range of organisations from various sectors (development, environment, global education, community groups, anti-poverty, human rights, migration, disabilities, trade unions...) we are preparing the setting…

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…