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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The October newsletter from @cgebelfast@bsky.social has just been published with updates on our latest activities and reports, articles and publications on development education and international development. Check it out at: mailchi.mp/0d5eeadeeb8c...

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Issue 43 of @cgebelfast.bsky.social's journal, Policy and Practice, has just been published on the theme "Development Education: Learning for Transformation". This international issue features contributions from Canada, Italy, Portugal and Uganda. Available at: www.developmenteducationreview.com

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This coming Saturday 5th September will see large marches for Palestine take place across Ireland to demand the cancellation of the Ireland v Israel football matches in the Nations League. The march in Belfast is at 1pm. Assemble Writer's Square.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Please sign the Amnesty International Ireland petition calling on the Central Bank of Ireland to stop facilitating the sale of apartheid Israel's genocide bonds which fund its crimes against Palestinians. www.amnesty.ie/central_bank...

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Central Bank of Ireland: Say No to Israel Bonds - Amnesty International Ireland

Ireland must stop the sale of Israel Bonds in the EU or risk complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Sign here.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

@cgebelfast.bsky.social has just published its 2025 Annual Report with an overview of our activities over the past year. Check it out at: www.centreforglobaleducation.com/sites/defaul...

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

cgebelfast.bsky.social is inviting contributions to Issue 44 of our journal, Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review on the theme “Development and the Uses and Abuses of Knowledge". The deadline for abstracts is 4 September 2026. www.developmenteducationreview.com/submission-g...

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A Belfast protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, approaching its third anniversary. 152 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza in July, the highest monthly toll this year. #stopthegenocidesofpalestinians

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is at grave risk of imminent death from months of torture in an Israeli dungeon. He told his lawyer “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving". Please support Amnesty International calls for his immediate release www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

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Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!

Act now to free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Belfast says "no to racism" at a huge public demonstration today in solidarity with our neighbours in the minority ethnic communities who have suffered racist violence this week. Yes to solidarity, no to racism and fascism.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Racist mobs visited terrible violence, fear and intimidation on minority communities in Belfast overnight. United Against Racism has organised a rally on Saturday as a public demonstration of opposition to racist progroms. Assemble at 1.00pm, Belfast City Hall.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Find attached a report on a webinar titled “Pedagogical Responses to the Meta Crisis: The Role of Development Education”. It debated the content of Issue 42 of the @cgebelfast.bsky.social journal Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review. www.centreforglobaleducation.com/sites/defaul...

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Check out the June newsletter from @cgebelfast.bsky.social with an update on current and upcoming activities and news from around the global education and international development sectors. bit.ly/3PYMBvd

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Episode 4 of the cgebelfast.bsky.social's podcast "Reimagining Development" is an interview with Tom McDonnell, co-Director of the Nevin Institute. He sets out the the economic, social and democratic case for a tax on extreme wealth in Ireland. Available at open.spotify.com/episode/6mxu...

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States, but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the Global South." Chris Hedges substack chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

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The Rise of the Global South

The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States, but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the Global South.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Cuba is being punished by the Trump administration for pursuing a socialist path to development - @cgebelfast.buesky.social's letter to today's @irishtimes.com

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The paperback edition of Global Education in Ireland: Critical Histories and Future Directions edited by Eilish Dillon, Niamh Gaynor, Gerard McCann and I, has just been published by Bloomsbury Academic and available to order at: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/global-ed...

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Episode 3 of Episode 4 of the Centre for Global Education's podcast "Reimagining Development" is an interview with Dessie Donnelly from the Rabble Co-operative on monitoring far-right activity online. Available at open.spotify.com/episode/77Df...

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

More Israeli piracy in international waters, this time off the coast of Cyprus, as humanitarian vessels bound for Gaza with much needed aid are intercepted and boarded. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

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Israeli forces intercept Gaza-bound aid flotilla off Cyprus

More than 50 vessels departed from the Turkish port city of Marmaris last week.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

National demonstration for Palestine tomorrow in Dublin to commemorate the 78th year of the ongoing Israeli Nakba in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Assemble at 1.00pm in the Garden of Remembrance.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A workplace day of action for Palestine was observed by health workers affiliated to Unison today at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

@cgebelfast.bsky.social and @comhlamh.bsky.social have organised a webinar on Wednesday, 27 May to debate Issue 42 of Policy and Practice on the theme: "Pedagogical Responses to the Meta Crisis". Register with Eventbrite at: www.eventbrite.ie/e/pedagogica...

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

@cgebelfast.bsky.social is one of 90 civil society organisations to have signed a statement calling on the European Union to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement, ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements and halt all arms transfers to Israel. www.cidse.org/2026/04/16/o...

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Open letter: 90+ organisations demand suspension of EU-Israel Association Agreement

ENGLISH PDF GERMAN PDF SIGNATORIES In response to violations of international humanitarian law by Israeli authorities in Palestine and Lebanon, over 90 human rights and humanitarian organisa...

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Check out the May newsletter from the Centre for Global Education with an update on our current activities. bit.ly/4d01One

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

More piracy by Israel in international waters as 22 boats that are part of the 58 vessel Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza have been illegally intercepted and 175 activists detained. A humanitarian fleet to Gaza is illegally intercepted once again. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

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Israeli forces raid Global Sumud Flotilla boats in international waters

Twenty-two out of 58 vessels were captured by Israel near Crete, as flotilla aims to deliver aid to Gaza under blockade.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The May Day Rally in Belfast will be held this Saturday, 2 May. Assemble at 11.30am, Writer's Square.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Episode 2 of @cgebelfast.bsky.social's podcast, ‘Reimagining Development’, is an interview with Prof. Alfredo Saad Filho from Queen’s University Belfast. He unpacks neoliberal economics and its role in fermenting the slide toward fascism across the world. open.spotify.com/episode/3Wxl...

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Centre for Global Education has recorded new episodes of our podcast, Reimagining Development. Episode 1 of our 3rd series is an interview with Rebecca Heslin, a clinical psychologist and activist, about the psychology of activism and Palestinian solidarity. open.spotify.com/episode/2xs9...

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Trump’s oil embargo of Cuba is really designed to unravel six decades of a socialised model of development premised on meeting social need rather than profit and greed. A new piece for @officialznet.bsky.social znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

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Cuba’s Real Threat to the United States is a Socialised Model of Development

On 29 January, Donald Trump published an Executive Order in which he described Cuba as “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States and

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Issue 42 of the @cgebelfast.bsky.social journal, Policy and Practice, has just been published on the theme "Pedagogical Responses to the Meta Crisis: The Role of Development Education". Please share with colleagues and students. @comhlamh.bsky.social www.developmenteducationreview.com

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Gaza was just the beginning. The "Gaza Playbook" has now been deployed in Lebanon where Israel has launched genocidal violence that has killed 1,100 people and displaced more than one million. @stephenmccloskey.bsky.social's letter to this morning's Irish Times.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Gaza was just the beginning. The "Gaza Playbook" has now been deployed in Lebanon where Israel has launched genocidal violence that has killed 1,100 people and displaced more than one million. @cgebelfast.bsky.social's letter to this morning's Irish Times.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A march in Belfast today commemorating the 50th anniversary of Land Day when the Israeli military killed 6 unarmed Palestinians protesting illegal land confiscations. Only boycott, divestment and sanctions will prevent Israel's annexation of the occupied West Bank.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A child of 21 months has been released from a 10-hour detention in Gaza by Israeli occupation forces with cigarette burns on its legs. There seems to be no age barrier to protect Gazans from cruelty and torture. www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-to...

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Gaza toddler released from Israeli custody with ‘cigarette burn’ wounds

Family says toddler shows signs of torture after detention, as father remains missing

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Tomorrow in Dublin. A national day of action calling for the immediate passing into law of the Occupied Territories Bill.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Tomorrow in Dublin. A national day of action calling for the immediate passing into law of the Occupied Territories Bill.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The Nuestra Amércia aid convoy to Cuba has brought 20 tons of critical supplies for hospitals, schools and families in need. 650 delegates from 33 countries have brought solidarity to Cuba and a message to the US: hands off Cuba! Venceremos! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

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Tons of aid flows into Cuba as humanitarian convoy arrives on the struggling island

Some 650 delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations have started arriving in Cuba as part of a solidarity caravan transporting some 20 tons of humanitarian aid as the island grapples with a sev...

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

A march today in Belfast to the US consulate demanding an end to the war on Iran and Lebanon, and hands off Cuba and Venezuela. Solidarity to the peoples of the global South suffering under US imperialism.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

There should be no shamrock for the warmonger Trump. He has launched an illegal war on Iran, illegally invaded Venezuela, supported and armed the genocide in Gaza and is strangling the Cuban economy. No normalised relations with war criminals.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Israel is replicating its genocidal strategy used on Gaza in Lebanon. 850 people have been killed and 800,000 displaced. 18 healhcare workers have been killed in 26 attacks on medical installations. And, now Israeli forces have launched ground operations www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

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Israeli military launches ground operations in southern Lebanon

Israeli army says its forces are targeting key locations in southern Lebanon, aiming to expand forward defence zones.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Cuban solidarity at a Palestinian demonstration outside the BBC in Belfast. The US is creating a humanitarian emergency in Cuba by denying it energy and food supplies. This is an illegal siege that the world should unite in condemning. #endtheblockadeofcuba

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Israeli forces launched overnight strikes on displaced families sheltering on Beirut’s sea front repeating its pattern of attacks on displaced families in Gaza. Since 28 February, 634 people have been killed in Lebanon and 780,000 displaced. #warcrimes www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

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Israeli ‘double-tap strike’ hits displaced on Beirut seafront, kills eight

The attack appears to be another Israeli attempted assassination, outside areas traditionally targeted.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

International Women's Day March in Belfast

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The Israeli military is ordering the evacuation of the southern suburbs of Beirut, home to hundreds of thousands of people. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has threatened to turn these heavily populated areas into another Gaza Strip. We need to stop another genocide happening in Lebanon.

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Check out the March newsletter from the Centre for Global Education with an update on our current activities as well as resources, articles and events in the global Education and international development sectors. bit.ly/4rMxq5N

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The US and Israel have launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Iran whilst in the middle of disarmament negotiations. Their airstrikes have already led to the murder of 85 girls, aged 7-12 years, attending a primary school. Utterly shameful. www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-2...

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At least 85 girls killed in strike on school in southern Iran

Eyewitness tells MEE girls aged between seven and 12 seen lying dead across their school

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CGEBelfast @cgebelfast.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Just a week left to submit an abstract to Issue 43 of the journal, Policy and Practice on the theme "Development Education: Learning for Transformation". All of the submission details and more information on the theme are available at www.developmenteducationreview.com/submission-g...

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