Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
The past few decades have seen a growing awareness among health professionals and policy makers of the role that social and economic factors play in determining good mental health. As the WHO Regional Committee for Europe noted:
Widening disparities in society or economic changes in individuals’ life courses seem to be of particular importance here. Whether [...]
To a large extent, the reality of global inequality is ignored or at best downplayed. However, this has not always been the case. Indeed, in the early 1950s, the first UN resolutions on development focused on inequality rather than poverty. Unfortunately, this decline of interest in inequality is not an indication of any improvement in [...]
…it’s no life at all. We just live by the day… We are grateful for the food, for the accommodation, most for our children going to school… but people are wasting in the name of the asylum process…” (Anonymous Resident Mosney camp, Seaview documentary)
Enveloped in a global recession and the consequences of the disastrous economic [...]
The Irish Penal Reform Trust will publish a new report: Detention of Children in Ireland: International Standards and Best Practice. The report, which will be launched Monday 30th November in Dublin, considers the implementation of international human rights standards to children detention in Ireland, and details best practice examples from Ireland and other European jurisdictions.
The [...]
Wednesday’s Social Inclusion Forum Is A Rare Chance for Government to Hear the Voices of People Experiencing Poverty and Social Exclusion
Speaking in advance of the Social Inclusion Forum on Wednesday 4th November, Anna Visser Director of the European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland, welcomed the Government efforts to actively seek out the views of people experiencing poverty [...]
Thinking Allowed | Suburbia & Forgetting
Laurie Taylor discusses the enduring appeal of Suburbia. Despite the number of people living there the term ’suburban’ can be a short hand for small mindedness and lack of individuality. Lynsey Hanley, author of Estates: An Intimate History, compares suburban existence to life on a housing estate. Also, an interesting [...]
Splintered Sunrise | Lisbon and The Cringe
Splintered Sunrise on Lisburn and our ‘cultural cringe’ that identifies Ireland ‘as a dark place of reaction, and England (or latterly “Europe”) as the progressive norm to be aspired to’:
And so it is when advances like the legalisation of divorce or homosexuality – things that loom [...]
As part of its awareness raising campaign, EAPN Ireland has published a three minute motion-graphic entitled ‘the Lisbon Treaty’s Social Side’ (see below). The production aims to give a brief overview of how the Lisbon Treaty impacts on social issues and the direction of the European Union.
“EAPN Ireland is concerned that the campaign is [...]
This post was written and published on the 12th June last on the Irish Penal Reform Trust Director’s blog. It is being republished here with the kind permission of IPRT.
In response to a number of serious incidents at Mountjoy this week, IPRT was asked to make public comment on a number of radio programmes. [...]
While Irish Left Review could never be mistaken for the jobs page I have been asked to mention that TASC, a think tank for action on social change is currently looking for a Head of Policy. They are eager to spread the word far and wide in order to get to as many as possible [...]
