Labour’s Michael D Higgins has spoken out against the Government’s handling of health services for Travellers.
Dr Yuri Melini of Guatemala was riddled with bullets for his work to protect the environmental rights of indigenous people.
Human rights, according to the UN, are the “basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, including the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.” Whatever your origin or gender, human
I’m sitting here in my brother’s office in Dallas, Texas, gazing out the window at a foot of snow. It’s by no means the first time I’ve ever seen this much snow in the States – but this is Dallas, where any amount of snow is extremely
Robert Carry: From the Home Front It’s two years since I applied for a one-year working holiday visa for Australia. And rather than being the straightforward, exclusively online affair I was expecting, it turned out to be a little more complicated.
This week I’m travelling in Venezuela, home to one of the most extraordinary political revolutions of our time. Since coming to power in 1999, President Hugo Chávez has transformed politics in this oil-rich country.
A FORMER Nigerian soccer international has been named an “ambassador of Dublin sport” at a ceremony in the capital.
A DUBLIN soccer coach defended the bullying of an ethnic Indian player on the basis that his team trains to a song from Slumdog Millionnaire, it has been claimed.
With growing numbers of civilians being killed and maimed, it is certain that the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan has taken a dangerous turn. Last weekend alone, 12 civilians lost their lives when two Nato rockets aimed at insurgents missed