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Introduction to SDGs, TGAL Learning Journal & Motivations for Volunteering

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Presentation for GCE Session 1 - Intro to SDGs, TGAL Learning Journal _ March 2026

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Read more on https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelop... 17 Goals to Transform Our World The Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate change and environmental protection.

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IDEA short animation to explain Global Citizenship Education

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IDEA short animation to explain Global Citizenship Education

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IDEA launched an animated video on Global Citizenship Education (GCE) as part of our Erasmus+ project. The short video explores the four key concepts behind GCE and why GCE is so important in our world today.

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PAUSE - EXPLORE - FLOURISH. A Creative Wellbeing resource

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PAUSE - EXPLORE - FLOURISH. A Creative Wellbeing resource

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PAUSE - EXPLORE - FLOURISH. A Creative Wellbeing resource from MTU's Creativity and Change

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Organize anything, together. Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, know what’s being worked on, who’s working on what, and where something is in a process.

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SERVE GCE workshop on Attitudes and Language on Combating Racism, SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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SERVE GCE workshop on Attitudes and Language on Combating Racism, SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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This workshop facilitated by Joanna Dukkipati, focuses on the importance of addressing attitudes and language in combating racism and promoting reduced inequalities, aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 10. The workshop explores the impact of language and attitudes on perpetuating or challenging racism. It discusses strategies for identifying and changing discriminatory language and behaviors. The content connects these efforts to the broader goal of *reducing inequalities** as outlined in SDG 10. * The workshop provides practical tools and techniques for participants to promote inclusivity and equity in their communities and volunteer placements.

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These simple actions can help you stay on the road to a prosperous planet.

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SERVE GCE workshop on Attitudes & Language on Combating Racism, SDG 10

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SERVE GCE workshop on Attitudes & Language on Combating Racism, SDG 10

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Quick recap: The meeting focused on exploring unconscious bias, cultural stereotypes, and personal identity, encouraging participants to reflect on their own experiences and assumptions. Through guided meditations, discussions, and exercises, the team examined the impact of privilege, language barriers, and social conditioning on interactions and perceptions. The session emphasized the importance of self-awareness, challenging stereotypes, and fostering inclusive communication, ultimately aiming to promote understanding and empathy in diverse contexts.

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Summary SERVE GCE workshop on Attitudes & Language on Combating Racism, SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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Linking SERVE volunteering experiences, Irish Rule of International Law & SDG 16

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Linking SERVE volunteering experiences, Irish Rule of International Law & SDG 16

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Maria McCloskey was the guest speaker. She is the Executive Director of Irish Rule of Law International. Maria has volunteered with SERVE in Brazil as well as a long-term placement with our partner Young Africa in Mozambique. In this session Maria linked her experiences volunteering with SERVE, and her work now, which is heavily connected to SDG 16, Peace Justice and Strong Institutions.

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GCE session 2 - SDG 16, Peace Justice and Strong Institutions

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Empathy Mapping Climate Justice Presentation - Catriona Reid

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Empathy Mapping Climate Justice Presentation - Catriona Reid

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The Presentation slides from Catriona Reid's presentation to SERVE volunteers on Empathy Mapping for Climate Justice. Catriona Reid is a Research Assistant (Coastal and Marine Systems)

MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine,

University College Cork.

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Unconscious Bias Self Reflection Prompts

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Unconscious Bias Self Reflection Prompts

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SERVE GCE online session on Attitudes and Language SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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SERVE GCE online session on Attitudes and Language SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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Attitudes and Language SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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A guided medication to control the breath and bath the mind with light.

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Pause, Explore, Flourish: The Gift Of Really Seeing

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A guided meditation to bring your attention to your breathing and allow an image to form in your mind’s eye of someone you wish to see and open your awareness to their pain and feel the power of compa

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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption scenario solutions

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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption scenario solutions

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SDG 5 Gender Equality workshop presentation

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SDG 5 Gender Equality workshop presentation

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Webinar: Climate Justice, the Missing Voices

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Webinar: Climate Justice, the Missing Voices

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Watch the first webinar from IDEA’s 2025 webinar series ‘Climate Justice the Missing Voices,’ presented insights from our contributors: Vanessa Conroy, a policy specialist who worked on Ireland's leading report regarding the inclusion of women and marginalised communities in climate policies; Sumaya Mohammed, a youth climate justice activist from Cork and Claire Kenny, a disability advocate and policy specialist. The event was hosted by Valery Molay, a climate and racial justice policy expert and activist

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Webinar: Climate Justice, the Missing Voices

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Climate Change, extractivism and colonialism handbook

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Climate Change, extractivism and colonialism handbook

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The Green Belt Movement (GBM) is an indigenous grassroots organization in Kenya that empowers women through the planting of trees. It is one of the most effective and well-known grassroots organisations addressing the problem of global deforestation.[1] Professor Wangari Maathai established the orga…

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Answers from volunteers in the Life in the Bottom Billion workshop March 27th 2025

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Answers from volunteers in the Life in the Bottom Billion workshop March 27th 2025

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Life in the Bottom Billion workshop slides

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Life in the Bottom Billion workshop slides

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The slides from the Life in the Bottom Billion workshop facilitated by Paula Quigley on March 27th 2025

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Check out this Presentation designed by SERVE.

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Climate Justice: Videos of Speakers' Inputs from the IDEA Missing Voices workshop

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Climate Justice: Videos of Speakers' Inputs from the IDEA Missing Voices workshop

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Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education "Climate Justice the Missing Voices" hosted by IDEA in March 2025. Videos of Speakers' Inputs from Climate Justice, the Missing Voices Webinar Last Week

This is the first webinar from the 2025 series, Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education "Climate Justice the Missing Voices." Speakers are: Vanessa Conroy, Sumaya Mohammed and Claire Kenny.

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Catch up on our ‘Climate Justice, the Missing Voices’ webinar

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Speakers’ inputs from Climate Justice, the Missing Voices Webinar

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Life in the Bottom Billion Key Learnings Handout

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Life in the Bottom Billion Key Learnings Handout

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Key Learnings from Life in the Bottom Billion workshop handout

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Life in the Bottom Billion Case Study 2 Zimbabwe

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Life in the Bottom Billion Case Study 2 Zimbabwe

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Life in the Bottom Billion Case Study 2 Philippines

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Life in the Bottom Billion Case Study 2 Philippines

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Case Study 2 The Philippines – Climate Change and the Urban

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Life in the Bottom Billion Case Study 1 India

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Life in the Bottom Billion Case Study 1 India

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Case Study 1 India – The Cycle of Informal Labour and Inequa

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The advocacy toolkit and policy guide were developed for IDEA members to strengthen their capacity to effectively advocate with policymakers and to actively engage in policy processes on GCE in Ireland and the wider world.

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Explore Vision 2025, a strategic roadmap for the Development Education sector in Ireland, towards a society of Global Citizens. Download the plan and learn about the crucial investment and scaling-up needed to achieve this vision.

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Climate Action: Climate Justice Article on Annual Global Carbon Budget

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Climate Action: Climate Justice Article on Annual Global Carbon Budget

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Oxfam GB | Richest 1% burn through their entire annual carbon limit in just 10 days

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This alarming milestone, dubbed ‘Pollutocrat Day’ by Oxfam, underscores how climate breakdown is disproportionately driven by the super-rich, whose emissions far exceed those of ordinary people. In stark contrast, it would take someone from the poorest half of the global population nearly three years (1022 days) to use up their share of the annual global carbon budget.

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We must dismantle the structures of inequality that historical colonialism built, writes Oxfam CEO Jim Clarken

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Ireland must address its role in the colonialism that leaves nations in the global south in dire poverty

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We must dismantle the structures of inequality that historical colonialism built, according to Jim Clarken, chief executive of Oxfam Ireland

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The Centre for Sustainable Systems (CSS) has developed an extensive collection of factsheets covering a breadth of sustainability topics such as climate change, energy, water, materials, transportation, environmental justice and many more. The updated and improved 2024 collection is now available. It includes 32 factsheets made up of over 1,800 facts and 139 graphics compiled from over 1,175 sources.

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Homepage | Center for Sustainable Systems

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Now available: 2024 edition of Center for Sustainable Systems’ sustainability factsheets includes interactivity, improved design

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The snow at the highest observatory in the world to be operated all-year-round is expected to completely melt in the next few days, the earliest time on record.

Scientists at the Sonnblick observatory in the Austrian Central Alps, which is 3,106 metres (10,190ft) above sea level, have been shocked and dismayed to see the snow depleting so quickly.

Some years the peak is covered in snow all summer. But this year it has melted more than a month before the previous record time, which was 13 August in 1963 and 2003.

Alexander Orlik, a climatologist at the Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, said: "The snow depth today was 3cm. I expect it to be completely gone by today or the day after. It is not usual for the snow to melt completely down. In some years the snow cover is there the whole summer. But the earliest it has before is August."

Dramatic news from the Alps:Mount Sonnblick in Austria (3100m) hosts the mountain observatory with the longest and most reliable climatic data.Seasonal snow has never melted earlier than 13 August (1963 and 2003),today the snow depth is 9cm and it'll probably be gone by tomorrow pic.twitter.com/prZIrB4GQl
- Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) July 3, 2022

Throughout June, snow has been at the lowest levels since records began in 1938.

Orlik said: "On 30 June, the snow depth on Sonnblick was 39cm. The previous lowest snow depth in June was 120cm, in 1942. In an average June there is 307cm of snow at the end of the month. Last year in June, the minimum snow depth was 362cm."

The observatory publishes the snow level every 10 minutes, along with other data. Rainfall affects the measurements. But the steady downwards trend is clear to see, and as of Tuesday the snow was down to just a couple of centimetres.

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Sonnblick was built in 1886, for scientists to explore the higher levels of the atmosphere. Since then it has been used by meteorologists to forecast the weather, and hosts the mountain observatory with the longest and most reliable climatic data.

The heating climate in Europe, where there have been scorching heatwaves, has caused much of the snow and ice on the mountains to melt unusually quickly.

This had a tragic outcome this week at the Marmolada mountain in Italy, where at least seven people died after a glacier collapsed, causing an avalanche. Scientists linked the disaster to the climate crisis, as the ice has become weakened due to sustained heat.

This article and its headline were amended on 5 July 2022 to correct the suggestion that Sonnblick is the world's highest observatory.

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Snow at one of world's highest observatories melting earlier than ever before

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The snow at the highest observatory in the world to be operated all-year-round is expected to completely melt in the next few days, the earliest time on record. Scientists at the Sonnblick observatory in the Austrian Central Alps, which is 3,106 metres (10,190ft) above sea level, have been shocked and dismayed to see the snow depleting so quickly.

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Chimamanda Adichie The danger of a single story 3 min cut

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Video from Fiachra's module

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Paper about long-term impact of Agent Orange

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Paper about long-term impact of Agent Orange

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Great blog to keep up to date about everything international development

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From our local Jubilee street party. Neat (if unintended) summary of state of union, monarchy, hangovers…. What if Putin’s true goals are different? Branko Milanovic wonders if the West is playing into Putin’s hands, by building a ‘new iron curtain’. A country-by-country guide to worsening drought in the Horn of Africa. (Actually, drought + war, […]

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The IIED’s Natalie Lartey explores common challenges in tackling racial bias in the storytelling that underpins international development research and identifies opportunities for change. Storytelling in the aid and development sectors has for many years been criticised for perpetuating racial stereotypes and bias. In the main, this critique has focused on public affairs content from big […]

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How structural racism shows up in peacebuilding, from new Peace Direct report ht Shuna Keen How Not to End Mass Starvation. Alex de Waal argues it’s no use asking for money if you ignore conflict and war Lot of Aussie friends are VERY excited about Penny Wong, their new Foreign/Aid Minister ‘The UK has a […]

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Guest post by Exfamer Maya Mailer In torrential rain, I clutched my 3 year-old daughter’s little hand. I was outside Lloyd’s of London, one of the world’s biggest insurers of fossil fuels, with a group of parents, toddlers and a giant paper mache oil drum filled with dying flowers. It was almost Father’s Day 2021. […]

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Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India by Rajesh Veeraraghavan is a wonderful and important book, a deep dive into the world’s largest social protection programme – India’s NREGA scheme – to explore the interaction between state reformers and citizen activists, as they work together, or sometimes against each other, to overcome the […]

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Mainly visuals this week: Pfizer profits. Nuff said. Branko Milanovic on Amartya Sen’s “Home in the World: A Memoir” – one of those reviews that makes you want to buy the book (instead of being an alternative to buying it) glineq.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-ma… Leadership tips from James Timpson. Especially the last 3. Here’s everyone who has ever […]

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East Africa v Ukraine. Two tragedies; two very different responses

There’s sometimes a fine line between ‘what aboutery’ – unhelpfully distracting from one claim for public or policy attention by saying ‘yes, but what about X? – and a genuine exposure of double standards. But when it comes to East Africa right now, it’s not a fine line, but a gulf distinguishing the world’s feeble […]

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FP2P - How active citizens and effective states can change the world

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The IIED's Natalie Lartey explores common challenges in tackling racial bias in the storytelling that underpins international development research and identifies opportunities for change. Storytelling in the aid and development sectors has for many years been criticised for perpetuating racial stereotypes and bias. In the main, this critique has focused on public affairs content from big [...]

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Ghana: fast fashion's dumping ground | Unreported World

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SOCIAL JUSTICE IRELAND.IE

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The international outpouring of support for Ukraine has been swift, vocal and highly efficient. International organisations, governments, NGOs and members of the public have welcomed not only humanitarian aid and financial support, but the provision of refuge with additional rights to victims of the conflict, during a time when there is more access than ever to information regarding the situation.

While this response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is welcomed and a positive sign for the capabilities of a modern global community, the difference in response to a large-scale European migration event, when contrasted with that of migration events we have seen from further afield must be recognised.

The creation of special processes for those fleeing Ukraine highlight what could be done during other conflicts and mass-migration events worldwide. The money can be made available, the administrative side of things can be covered and the services can be provided. We see a clear distinction between the response to the current situation when compared to non-European events requiring international aid.

During the Syrian Refugee 'Crisis' of 2015, many European states spent time negotiating down the number of migrants they were expected to receive, citing issues such as strains on state resources, and in some cases, anti-refugee sentiment. Many citizens in European states also expressed concern about the implications of receiving high numbers of people fleeing from conflict in their own countries, such as the pressure it would place on welfare services, healthcare and accommodation. Many of the concerns raised in 2015 have been swiftly addressed through the response to the situation in Ukraine, with money being raised, accommodation made available and the activation of the EU-wide Temporary Protection Directive.

The UNHCR estimates that over 6.6 million people have been forced to migrate out of Syria since 2011. When one looks at the number of Ukrainians forced to flea in the first two months alone, and that 1 million Syrian migrants were provided with refuge in Europe, the disparities in responses by numbers alone are self-evident.

In the Irish context, the calls for an end to Direct Provision have been getting louder in recent years. Members of the public, NGOs and other organisations have been calling on the government to do something about the appalling conditions in which those in Direct Provision have been forced to live. In February of 2021, the Irish Government released the White Paper on Ending Direct Provision. The plan for a new "applicant-centred" system for those seeking refuge in the country was outlined, with a goal of 2024 for the new system to be fully underway.

Under the current system, those in Direct Provision are not initially provided with a PPSN. Their financial support amounts to €38.50 a week for adults, and €29.80 a week for children, once their application has been processed, for some this has meant a length wait-time, without income and without the ability to enrol their children in education. For those arriving from Ukraine, the welfare rate is €117.70 a week for those aged between 18 and 24, and moves up to €206 a week for those over 25. The immediate granting of PPSNs also allows for children to be enrolled in education without great delay. The clear disparity in supports is not one which means Irelands should do less for Ukrainians, but one which highlights just how immediately it is possible to change how Ireland can support not only migrants and refugees from everywhere else in the world, but also those living in Ireland who are at the peripheries of state support.

Ireland's healthcare system is already under strain, with even more pressure placed on the underserved sector due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. With Ireland's swift response to welcoming migrants from Ukraine, those arriving, who have been allocated medical cards, with undoubtedly require medical care, whether this be mental health services or physical ones. This influx of people to cater for and the special provisions granted to them highlight the capabilities of the Irish government to make allowances and increase the number of people who receive support from our public sector. While the health services need additional resources and increased accessibility, so too do those in society who are underserved by the current system.

The recent changes to who can access care, whether it be healthcare, education, financial social welfare supports or accommodation highlight a more optimistic outcome from government policy if it is chosen. The two-tier system for refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland, while pointing to an undoubtedly unfair and unequal treatment of refugees in the state, also highlights the potential for change is not as out of reach as was once thought in Ireland. Much like the change in perception of the social welfare system due to COVID-19, this situation once again reveals the potential which may be harnessed from emergency action, and the way in which it stands to improve inequalities in society without great waiting times.

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A Blueprint for a Better Future? | Social Justice Ireland

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The international outpouring of support for Ukraine has been swift, vocal and highly efficient. International organisations, governments, NGOs and members of the public have welcomed not only humanitarian aid and financial support, but the provision of refuge with additional rights to victims of the conflict, during a time when there is more access than ever to information regarding the situation.