Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the 24th February, an estimated 4.5 million people have fled Ukraine seeking refuge across international borders. The UNHCR has declared the situation a Level…
Fashion Revolution Week is an annual campaign that takes place every year in the week surrounding the 24th of April. This date is the anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in…
Ireland and the wider world is moving steadily towards the deadline of 2030 by which time we are supposed to have delivered on the Climate Strategy and the Sustainable Development Goals. Delivering…
The coming decade will be one of transformation as we try to meet our climate goals. This edition of National Social Monitor ‘Just Transition’ sets out some specific policies that Social Justice…
The OECD has recently released its Covid-19 Recovery Dashboard, a selection of twenty indicators that aims to monitor the recovery of OECD countries from the pandemic. Spread across four dimensions…
Problems for tenants with the high cost of accommodation as a proportion of their income and arrears on mortgage, rent and utility bills are an indication of the continued social and economic impact…
The HIV/AIDS epidemic of previous decades has presented governments and development workers, particularly those in the Global South with major challenges. There are currently 30 million people living…
Budget 2022 allocated €1.044bn to Ireland’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme; an increase of €140m overall including an increase of €33.9m in the allocation from the Department of…
Our pre-budget submission, 'Budget Choices 2022' contains detailed, fully-costed Budgetary packages across more than a dozen policy areas including health, housing, education, welfare, sustainability…
Our pre-budget submission ‘Budget Choices 2022’ outlines why expenditure will have to rise if the housing strategy, the climate change strategy and the revised national development plan are to…
