2022 Conference on Intergenerational Climate Justice : Registrations Open
2022 CONFERENCE ON INTERGENERATIONAL CLIMATE JUSTICE “Enough is Enough! And it Needn’t Cost the Earth.” Comhdháil ar Cheartas Aeráide Idirghlúine “Tá ár sáith againn! Ní chaithfidh an domhan fulaingt a thuilleadh.” Date: Thursday, 20 October 2022 via Zoom. (9am -...
Celebration and Official Launch of the Solidarity Garden, Ardfoyle
Yesterday saw the official launch of the Solidarity Garden by the Lord Mayor of Cork City, Cllr. Deirdre Forde. The garden was set up on the front lawn of Ardfoyle towards the end of last year. The Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles, Ireland, were approached...
Season of Creation 2022
The Season of Creation begins September 1, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, and ends October 4, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecology. The burning bush is the Symbol for the Season of Creation 2022. Today, the prevalence of...
OLA Joint Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
Review of Ireland 2022 On 15 August 2022, the OLA Justice Desk, in collaboration with others, made joint submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. Our submission will contribute to the review of Ireland by the Committee which examines how...
International Day for People of African Descent – 31 August
The International Day for People of African Descent was celebrated for the first time on 31 August 2021. 2024 will see the end of the International Decade for People of African Descent and while to date there has been some progress at legislative, policy and...
Call to Action from Community Gardens Ireland
Community Gardens Ireland is a non profit organisation run entirely by volunteers. Their aim is to support and promote community gardens in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The organisation shares knowledge and information collected by all the individuals,...
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons 2022
Use and abuse of technology This year’s theme focuses on the role of technology as a tool that can both enable and impede human trafficking. With the global expansion in the use of technology - intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift of our everyday...
Christians in Nigeria are Under Constant Attack
First published in the Irish Times on 4 July 2022, here. Growing power of Islamist militant groups demands urgent international attention Christians in Nigeria today certainly need faith and hope as the nation unravels on all sides and the government...
Corporate Accountability and Human Rights: Responding to Abuses in Africa.
The Irish antennae of Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network recently hosted a webinar on Corporate Accountability and Human Rights: Responding to Abuses in Africa. The webinar focused on the problem of corporate human rights abuses in Africa, and gave us an...
Oral Statement to the Human Rights Council
In March, the OLA, together with our partners, the Presentation Sisters, Christian Brothers and Edmund Rice International, were invited to make an oral statement to the Human Rights Council on the outcome of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Ireland. This...