💡 Nicola Browne, Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Center on International Cooperation at NYU shares her experience at NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC). 📝 Check out Nicola’s latest blog on socio-economic and #HumanRights abuses that fueled the conflict in Northern Ireland:

Our response to today's publication of the Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2 Report

Thanks NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC) for hosting me last month and allowing me to learn from your work on division, hate and extremism. Would that it wasn’t needed in NI, but looking forward to continuing to work together. Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity

Latest episode of the TrademarkBelfast podcast. We discuss the root causes of the racist riots and the growing threat of the far right.

Prof Dr Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.

One way to keep children in education after 16 would be to ban Northern Ireland's grammar schools from kicking them out after GCSE to fiddle their league tables. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Today is the 12th anniversary of Savita's death. She was denied potentially life saving care because of Ireland's unjust abortion law in 2012. Join us this evening at 7pm in lighting a candle and taking some time to remember her. #NeverAgain buff.ly/3jGSgCT

First-hand evidence of the emotional impact of #PublicInterestLitigation, as well as the legal & financial implications ⤵️⤵️ Friends of the Earth NI & No Gas Caverns's press release states they "have instructed their legal team to vehemently oppose the grant of permission to appeal".

Apparently NewryMourneDown’s consultants Arup are claiming that if the Mourne gondola didn't go ahead, the money would be lost. As the below letter shows, this isn’t true and alternative projects could get funding. If this comes up at today’s engagement event, please challenge them.

Around 8% of Northern Ireland’s population is from an ethnic or minority background. Yet the north’s politics is still dominated by the unionist and nationalist divide. I spoke with three migrant communities to see how old divisions are impacting them: thedetail.tv/articles/we-ad…

A far greater proportion of private than state school pupils get extra time in exams… which is even odder when you consider the wider context this is happening within: we know special educational needs are more prevalent in poorer areas ft.com/content/5f96ea…

Thanks NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC)!

Big corporations can’t silence the movement for Palestinian freedom!

Lough Neagh is dying. Our lakes and rivers are dying. Sea loughs are next..& not just from farm animal waste Now a dirty scandal is emerging about a busted water system and the capitulation of regulators #Waterislife #epanow Spotlight, Tuesday 10.40pm bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

We are recruiting 2 Network Weavers to work with the our Board & repair cafes across NI to co-design & facilitate a sustainable, supportive & thriving network of existing & new repair cafes as they emerge over the next 3 years. Find out more: repaircafebelfast.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/we-…

Thanks to Garrett Hargan for covering Act Now's challenge to Economy Minister Conor Murphy on whether our money has been provided to NI-based arms companies with links to F-35 fighter jets being used by Israel - read more below ⬇️ belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

Our new report, “Unleashed: Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli Soldiers in the Center of Hebron”, is out today. In more than 20 testimonies, Palestinians told us how during the summer of 2024, soldiers randomly seized them from the street, a checkpoint or a home and subjected them

“John O’Dowd declined to be interviewed for this programme” #Systemfailni

🌍🏗️ Are you working to build a fairer world? 📝 Applications are now open for the 2025-26 Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity program, a funded #fellowship for social change leaders at LSE. 📊 This program is recruiting for those working in any field of social and economic #equity, including,

One of many moving moments in the BBC’s excellent series ‘The London Bombings’ is this recollection by Julie Nicolson of the reaction of a London cabbie when he learned her daughter Jenny was a victim.