Upcoming Events

Comhlámh at the Festival of World Cultures
This weekend Comhlámh and Trócaire are at the Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire investigating the trickiness of trade rules through games, workshops for children of all ages and a talk. Visit us in the Trade Routes area to play some games and find out how trade rules make it difficult for people in poor countries to sell their goods, and how trade activists from Dublin to Dar es Salaam are trying to bring about change.
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Comhlámh joins Concern’s event at Cultivate for World Humanitarian Day, 19 August

Thursday 19th August is World Humanitarian Day and Concern Worldwide will be hosting an open day from midday at Cultivate on St Andrew St (off Dame St), Dublin 2 on the UN’s theme for the day: ‘I am an aid worker’ and Comhlámh will be there with an information stand so come and talk to us!
Comhlámh will be providing first-hand information and advice on a range of issues relating to aid workers, including Reverse Culture Shock, social welfare entitlements and Coming Home Weekends. 
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Talk About Development...
Talk About Development is an online forum where development workers, volunteers, and anyone who is interested in challenging poverty and inequality can share ideas and debate issues that have an impact on global justice and development.
We believe that people acting in solidarity can work to change the structures of global injustice and poverty. Talk About Development provides a space to debate issues of development and global poverty, to discuss ways to take action for justice, to work together and to share information about working or volunteering overseas.
Check it out at www.talkaboutdevelopment.org  and share your ideas, opinions, experiences and reflections on all matters relating to development.

New Focus is available online!
INSIDE:
Action – Write to the Minister on EPAs
Haiti – home truths
The business of land and hunger explored
Palestine - Securing the walls of division
Congo’s Complex Coltan
Copenhagen digested - the economists and the bloggers
Click here to download new Focus

The April 2010 issue of INDEX is available online
This issue offers a variety of perspectives for educators to consider on media coverage, the work of development agencies, and foreign involvement in the majority world countries, in relation to the recent earthquake in Haiti
Contributions include:

Natural disasters?
I see black people: coverage of the Haiti earthquake  
Haiti: a tragedy or a brilliant business opportunity?
Info about development education courses & events, sectoral news, funding and useful resources
IDEA Corner – news from the Irish Development Education Association
Climate Justice when?       
Resource Review: Tales of Disaster
To download INDEX click here 


Dtalk – Development Training & Learning @ Kimmage courses
New Dtalk courses calendar for 2010 is available online. To register for any course please contact: Selam Desta, Email: selam.desta@kimmagedsc.ie, Tel: 01 4064341 or Catherine Behan, Email: catherine.behan@kimmagedsc.ie, Tel: 01 4064307. 
Full details of all courses are available by clicking here
For details on Working with Media training course click here 

Follow Comhlámh on Twitter!
Comhlámh has joined Twitter two months ago and we are happy about every new follower! If you want to receive our regular updates on Comhlámhs news, events, courses, meetings and campaigns join Twitter and become a follower. It is a good way to stay engaged and informed about the work we do. If you e-mail me with your news item to kamila@comhlamh.org, I’d be delighted to include it in our daily list of tweets! 
You can view our Twitter site here

Become a Fan of Comhlámh on Facebook! 
Comhlámh is busy updating Comhlámh's Fans with news on our events, courses, meeting, action and compaigns. If you would like to receive our regular updates please become our Fan on our new Facebook page. You can also post your development and global justice related news, links and updates on Comhlámh's Facebook wall. Within the last month the number of Fans of our page increased to 500!
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Watch Some of Comhlamh's Videos Online!

Just a click does the trick! http://www.comhlamh.org/resources-downloads.html

Comhlamh on MySpace.com

Visit us! Become our webfriend. http://www.myspace.com/comhlamh.

Bhopal Campaign
The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) is a coalition of people's organisations, non-profit groups and individuals who have joined forces to campaign for justice for the survivors of the Union Carbide Disaster in Bhopal. Three organisations of survivors from Bhopal play a leading role in the international network.

Members of ICJB continue to pressure Union Carbide's current owner The Dow Chemical Company and the US and Indian governments to ensure adequate health care, safe environment and proper rehabilitation for the survivors of the disaster and their children. Exemplary punishment of the Corporation and its guilty officials is one of the key demands of ICJB. Learn more at: www.bhopal.net

Fashioning an Ethical Industry
Fashioning an Ethical Industry is a Labour Behind the Label project that aims to provide fashion college students and tutors with an overview of working conditions in the garment industry, raise awareness of current company practices and initiatives to improve conditions and equip students to play an active role in raising standards in the supply chains of the companies they will working for in the future. More at: http://fashioninganethicalindustry.org

'Images of the Global South' Flyer 
Compass - Development Education in the Primary School (Comhlámh) has published a free leaflet for teachers, ‘Images of the Global South - Guidelines for primary educators for working with photographs from around the world'.
The leaflet is designed as a guide for primary school educators who wish to enrich the global dimension of their work with children through the use of images. Photographs are one of the most direct and accessible means of introducing the wider world into the classroom, but images can be contentious and complex.
This resource provides specific criteria on how to go about choosing images of the developing world, suggestions for developing photo-literacy in the classroom, ideas for incorporating image work across the curriculum, and resources and contacts for further reference.

For hard copies of the leaflet contact Ali Leahy at Comhlámh - tel: 01-478 3490 or email ali@comhlamh.org.

Download a copy of 'Images of the Global South...' right here in PDF format.

Comhlamh's Guyana Film at Your Library's Central City and County Branch
Comhlamh's video documentary, 'Guyana: A Rough Deal', is now available through the public library system nationwide and through selected academic libraries.
The film explores the difficulties resulting from international trade agreements and illustrates the need for Trade Justice and the continuing importance of campaigning on this issue.
The documentary is an initiative of the Comhlamh Action Network in Cork and was produced with funding assistance from the EU.

More information at: http://www.comhlamh.org/resources-downloads.html, where you can also view the documentary. Local libraries: http://www.library.ie/public/