18 October 2024- EU Anti-Human Trafficking Day.

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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17 October 2024- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

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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INVISIBLE Workers from Eastern Europe.

Eastern Europeans migrating west in the hope of work and better salaries, are often exploited and underpaid. Czech Journalist Sasa Uhlová goes undercover as a ‘’migrant with a camera’’ to find out what conditions are like for these individual workers in Germany, France and Great Britain. This film was made in 2023 and directed by […]

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Season of Creation 1 September -4 October 2024 .

This year’s Season of Creation theme is ‘’To hope and act with Creation.’’ This year, the symbol that will guide the season is “The first fruits of hope,” inspired by Romans 8:19- 25. With the ongoing impacts of conflicts on our planet and humanity, in addition to increasing and often devastating consequences of climate change, […]

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