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The abolition of the transatlantic slave trade began 200 years ago, and many schools marked this event. However, new forms of slavery are prevalent today.

Tax justice means fairer systems for taxing. Potential loss of tax revenues to the EU amount to approximately one trillion each year and billions are lost from countries in the Global south.

Trade has always been an important part of society, however current trade rules do tend to benefit the richer countries.

Peace and stability are central to sustainable development.

The world cannot afford war. People cannot stand by while the numbers of war and environmental refugees soar, while poverty spreads like an epidemic and money for education, health, job training and other needed services are stolen to pay for weapons.

Countries that are rich in natural resources are often poor and suffer from high rates of inequality, corruption, human rights abuse, and environmental degradation.

Overfishing is the process of catching too many fish at once, so that the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover.

Climate Justice is the reality that it is those that contribute least to climate change (through their emissions) are the ones that are impacted first and worst

Being an ethical consumer in today’s world requires first recognizing that consumption is not just embedded in economic relations, but also social and political ones.

For tens of millions of children around the world, their basic rights are at risk because they have to work.

This resource sheet strives to introduce to you the area of wellbeing as a global justice issue but also how we integrate global justice into the Wellbeing Framework.

We live in a world where over 800 million people go to bed hungry yet we produce 1.5 times enough food to feed people on the planet.

Direct Provision is the system used to accommodate and provide basic welfare to people seeking asylum in Ireland.

Racism is when an individual, group, structure or institution intentionally (or unintentionally) abuses their power to the detriment of people, because of their action or perceived “racialised background.

Globally there are more people on the move than ever before. These are people who were mostly forced to flee their own countries due to climate change, demographics, instability, growing inequality, terrorism, conflict and aspirations for a better life.

Find the resources and the recordings of the WWGS National Teacher Conference on ‘Degrowth’. Learn how teachers can bring the concept in to their Global Citizenship Education teaching and learning.

Find the recordings and the presentation of the School Gardens and Global Justice CPD workshop.

Exploring stereotypes is a good way to introduce issues of equality including themes of racial justice, discrimination, gender equality, LGBTQi etc Here’s a couple of past workshops we have done that have worked well: Workshop plan: Stereotypes workshop Workshop with second level students Stereotypes with students Workshop with teachers in training Stereotype presentation for teachers in training Labelling game sticker …

Find the recording of the WWGS workshop for teaching about Food Security and Biodiversity in post-primary schools.

Find the WWGS webinar recording and resources specifically for teaching Anti-racism in post-primary schools.

Watch the recording and find the resources of the workshop on the Good Health and Wellbeing Sustainable Development Goal 3.

Watch the recording and find the resources of the WWGS workshop on Tax and Trade Justice that took place in December 2020.

Find our most recent webinar recording and resource specifically for Recycling and Waste followed by additional resources to assist you.

Find our most recent webinar recording and resource specifically for Poverty followed by additional resources to assist you.

Find the recording and the resources of WWGS workshop on critical thinking approach to Global Citizenship Education and adapting to Covid-19.