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On the 15th April Dr. David Nabarro, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda, briefed NGOs on progress of implementation of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). According to Dr. Nabarro the SDGs represent the biggest upheaval in thinking and working that he’s seen in his career – it requires a radical change in […]

The 193 Member States of the United Nations has reached agreement on the draft outcome document that will constitute the new sustainable development agenda that will be adopted this September by world leaders at the Sustainable Development Summit in New York. Concluding a negotiating process that has spanned more than two years and has featured […]

  Disappointment has been expressed that a small group of rich countries blocked a plan for international tax rule-making to be removed from the clutches of the world’s rich countries, with developing countries being given more of a say. At the Third Financing for Development Conference (FfD3)hat concluded recently in Addis Ababa the push for […]

 The UN Development Programme releases a report every two years or so. The latest one is entitled, rather melodramatically, ‘The Rise of the South’. The full report is available online. For those who’ve been battling poverty over the last 10, 20, 30 , … 50 years, it’s good news. Yes, some countries are moving out […]

The New Year has now lost some of its gloss and the harsh reality of working towards a more equitable way of sharing the earth’s limited resources confronts people of good will everywhere.  Yet the Christmas message still lingers in our ears in the invitation of good King Wenceslaus, who looked out of his warm […]

Aidan Donaldson is Chaplain at St Mary’s Christian Brothers’ Grammar School, Belfast. He also plays a key leadership role in the Edmund Rice Network particularly in ‘Project Zambia’ part of the Christian Brothers’ Developing World Immersion Program. Here is Aidan’s reflection on a recent experience in Zambia:- “Trying to come to any sort of an […]

The launch of the Edmund Rice Beyond 250 Appeal took place at the Marino Institute of Education in Dublin on May 2nd. This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Edmund Rice at Callan, Co Kilkenny, Ireland. At 40 years of age, Edmund Rice decided to devote his life to the work of […]

“Already the MDGs have helped lift millions of people out of poverty, save countless children’s lives and ensure that they attend school” said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the launch of the Millennium Development Goals Report 2011 in Geneva earlier this month. “They have reduced maternal deaths, expanded opportunities for women, increased access to […]

According to Global Financial Integrity (GFI) a US based think-tank, developing countries are currently losing ten times the amount of money they receive in aid each year through activities such as bribery, theft, drug trading, tax evasion and mispricing of exports and imports. Most of the misappropriated money finds its way into western economies. This […]

It is pleasing to report that with the recent decision of the G7 nations to cancel Haiti’s debt, organisers from ONE International, who organised the campaign are confident the full cancellation of Haiti’s debt has effectively been achieved, hence the campaign associated with this Action Alert is now suspended. No doubt we have all been […]