These videos can be used as development education tools. They analyse development issues and demonstrate the work of individuals and groups in contributing to the international development effort and the realisation of human rights. 

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September 2010
August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010


September 2010



Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006, presents his understanding of ‘social justice’. He states the importance of equal access to opportunity for all, the recognition that each individual has needs, and that both national governments and the international community have responsibilities to work together to meet these needs.

August 2010

                                        

"Leaving lots of people out of primary education is one of the gravest injustices one can think of". Amartya Sen, eminent Indian economist and philosopher, discusses the importance of education, and the need to focus on providing primary education for all, while not neglecting secondary and higher level education. 

               

"We want to give our people the chance to elect the government of their choice, a government that is accountable and transparent, through which people will be able to express and realize their vision of the kind of country they want". Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner, was released on 13^th November 2010 after spending almost 14 of the past 20 years under house arrest.

In 1976, Betty Williams and Mairéad Corrigan received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work as co-founders of the Community of Peace People, an organisation dedicated to promoting peace in Northern Ireland. Betty Williams talks about building a more just and peaceful society, saying that "every one of us can do something to make somebody's life a little better on a daily basis". 

         

Kenyan environmental and political activist Wangari Maathai was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. In 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She asserts that "for us to live in peace with each other, it is necessary for us to manage the limited resources we have on this planet".            

July 2010



This short biography depicts Nelson Mandela's leadership in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa including his imprisonment for almost 30 years. He was released in 1990, when the then President of South Africa, FW de Klerk, lifted the 30 year ban on the leading anti-apartheid party, the African National Congress. The first international Nelson Mandela Day was celebated on 18th July 2010, Mandela's 92nd birthday.

                           

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf answers ten questions posed by Time Magazine. As the first female President of an African country, she hopes she is empowering other women “to reach whatever potential they want”. She discusses how Liberian leaders are working to bring about peace and development in the country. 

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, asserts that "we have an interconnected world as never before". She promotes a rights-centred approach to addressing development problems and insists that people at grassroots level must be listened to. 

June 2010

Jonathan Dimbleby, a BBC journalist who has reported from the continent of Africa for four decades, presents a positive picture of Africa, contrasting this with the negative stereotypes often associated with the continent. He visits ‘Sole Rebel’, a booming eco-product footwear weaving initiative in Ethiopia.

                                        

Sir Ken Robinson talks about the importance of creativity and how it may be lacking in traditional education systems. This talk was presented at the TED annual conference in 2006. TED is a small, not-for-profit organisation that promotes ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’.

           

Jeffrey Sachs, development economist, Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University and Special Advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals talks about the Millennium Villages Project, the role of technology in combating global poverty, climate change and the MDGs.                                                                        
           
May 2010

                                        

United Nations Secretary General since 2007, Ban Ki-moon endorses the 1 Goal: Education for All campaign. The 1 Goal campaign is using the power of football to garner attention and support for the Global Campaign for Education.

     

This video, Education for All: Class of 2015, is from the Global Campaign for Education. The campaign, founded in 1999, lobbies international governments and institutions to ensure that they keep their promise of guaranteeing education for all children by 2015.

                              

The Discovery Gospel Choir was Ireland’s first integrated gospel choir, founded in 2004. This clip shows them performing on the main stage at Africa Day 2010 in the Iveagh Gardens, Dublin.

This video is a montage of the 2009 flagship Africa Day celebrations run by Irish Aid in the Iveagh Gardens, Dublin. Music by Kila. Irish Aid is the Government of Ireland’s programme of assistance to developing countries.

April 2010

Video by the Irish Coalition for the Global Campaign for Education, encouraging the Irish public to call on governments to ensure that all children worldwide are in school by 2015. Add your name to the 1 Goal: Education for All campaign.