This Sunday, 1 December, to coincide with the first day of Advent, Bishop Fintan Monahan of Killaloe, and the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference delegate for Jubilee Year 2025, will launch the digital 2024 Advent calendar with the theme of Hope on www.catholicbishops.ie Advent also marks the beginning of the new calendar year for Christians.  The digital […]

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#Noexcuse 25 November 2024 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. It is also the beginning of the 16 Days of Activism campaign, which runs until 10 December, https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day . Violence against women and girls (VAWG) remains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it. It can […]

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Photo: Homeaffairs.ec.europa.eu  Today marks the EU Anti-Trafficking Day. While thousands of victims of human trafficking are recorded in the EU each year, many more remain undetected. A large part of the victims (37%) are EU citizens who fall victim to different forms of trafficking, such as sexual exploitation, labour exploitation, and forced criminality. Trafficking in […]

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Photo courtesy of www.alamy.com Image ID:DRYM2k. APT Ireland members attended the events at the Famine Memorial Stone, Custom House Quay in Dublin Ireland’s Docklands, to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, 17 October 2024. Both Brian O’ Toole and Eilis Coe, rsc, spoke at the event, about the nexus between poverty and […]

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