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Delivering a Basic Income Pilot - Quick Guide

Tuesday, 7 December 2021

It is possible to implement a Basic Income for artists and art workers according to Social Justice Ireland. The Think-Tank’s latest study shows that the Government could honour its commitment to…

Healthcare inequalities persist and undermine treatment and care

Monday, 6 December 2021

People should be assured of the treatment and care they need in their times of illness or vulnerability. However, the pandemic has shown that Ireland’s healthcare system fails to deliver that…

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Friday, 3 December 2021

Today, 3rd December, is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Census figures suggests that 13.5 per cent of the population, or 643,121 people, experience disability. This represented an…

World AIDS Day, 1st December 2021

Wednesday, 1 December 2021

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…

Lifelong learning - how does Ireland compare?

Monday, 29 November 2021

Ireland’s lifelong learning participation rate is slowly improving, rising to 13 per cent in 2019. Our national target is to reach 15 per cent by 2025 as set out in the National Skills Strategy…

Wellbeing for Ireland - Making a Paradigm Shift

Friday, 26 November 2021

In the Programme for Government, published last year, the Government committed that its "overriding focus is to improve the wellbeing of the Irish people and society". Part of that commitment was…

Participation for Wellbeing

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

When the Public Participation Networks were established in 2014, one of the areas they were tasked with was “going through a process to set out what they consider necessary to promote well-being…

Social Rights for All? Time to Deliver on the European Pillar of Social Rights - Conference Videos and Papers

Monday, 22 November 2021

On Wednesday, 17th November 2021, Social Justice Ireland held our Annual Social Policy Conference. This year's Conference was on the theme 'Social Rights for All? Delivering the European…

National Adult Safeguarding Day - 19th November 2021

Friday, 19 November 2021

Today, 19th November 2021, will mark Ireland's first Adult Safeguarding Day. According to Safeguarding Ireland, an organisation which promotes safeguarding of vulnerable adults to protect them…

The EU must not fail for the third time to tackle poverty, unemployment and social exclusion

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Social Justice Ireland's Annual Policy Conference, beginning at 10am today, will address the topic 'Social Rights for All? Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights'.

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