Throughout the world the Jesuits are known as educators but a new partnership between JRS Ireland and Gonzaga College SJ is continuing that tradition in a non-traditional environment.
Every Thursday during the school year, students from fifth year will join JRS staff in Hatch Hall accommodation centre to run a Homework Club for the children living there.
Last week, JRS Ireland attended a national conference on migration, entitled ‘Journeying Together: Challenges Facing the Migrant Today’.
Hosted in Dublin by the Councils for Emigrants and Immigrants of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, JRS Ireland was joined on the day by other NGOs working in the field of migration, parish workers, Government officials and international experts.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin opened the conference with a keynote address stressing how migration is an intrinsic part of the DNA of a globalised economy and a globalised world.
JRS Ireland calls on the Irish Government to enhance its existing resettlement programme for Syrian refugees.
Whilst acknowledging and welcoming the pledges made by the Irish Government, early in 2014, of emergency funding for the region, JRS Ireland continues to caution against a policy of burden shifting as opposed to genuine burden sharing.
The JRS Ireland Intercultural and Interfaith Calendar has been published since 2007 and is aimed at raising awareness of diversity in Ireland. Each month highlights religious feast days from different faiths, national days, international UN celebrations and bank holidays in the Republic of Ireland.
Forced deportations and human rights abuses are the norm for migrants in Morocco and Algeria, says latest report by the Jesuit Refugee Service
Would you like to donate a toy for a child living in direct provision this Christmas?
JRS Europe proudly presents the ‘My life as a Refugee’ photography exhibition.The exhibition displays photographs taken by refugees from five different European countries showing the reality of their lives from their own perspectives.
Brussels, 17 October 2012 – The EU border agency, Frontex, has finally put the human rights
of migrants square on the agenda with the first meeting of the newly established Consultative
Forum on Fundamental Rights, held yesterday in Warsaw. The forum, made up of civil society
organisations and EU institutions, selected JRS Europe to serve as co-chair with Frontex.
The Jesuit Refugee Service, Ireland will begin its annual Summer Programme this week. The Summer Programme is for the children of asylum seekers living in direct provision centres in Dublin.
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