News

July 31, 2015

International Youth Day – August 12th

Youth Civic Engagement The 2015 International Youth Day theme is Youth Civic Engagement. Youth Civic Engagement, a main goal of the United Nations System-Wide Action Plan […]
July 29, 2015

Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Final draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the Post-2015 Development Agenda The Heads of State and Government of 193 member States […]
July 6, 2015

Millennium Development Goals Report 2015

Millennium Development Goals 2015 Report The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have produced the most successful anti-poverty movement in history and will serve as the jumping-off point […]
June 10, 2015

Making Rights a Reality – Conference on Children, Young People & the SDGs

Invitation to Conference The countdown has begun to September’s meeting at the United Nations on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) where National Governments will decide on the seventeen […]
May 5, 2015

Millennium Youth Project

The National Youth Council of Ireland is delighted to announce its ‘Millennium Youth Project’, an exciting development education project working with the Baltic Regional Fund Latvia, World […]
March 4, 2015

International Women’s Day – Action 2015

(Sunday – 8th March) is a crucial opportunity for us to highlight how important the Sustainable Development Goal summit and the Climate Change negotiations will be […]
February 5, 2015

I Want to Know

‘I Want to Know’ is a short play written by Elizabeth Moynihan (Playwright) about the issue of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). It was performed during NYCI’s […]
January 23, 2015

European Year for Development – Irish Launch

The European Year for Development is here. What will be YOUR contribution? President Michael D. Higgins kicked off the programme of events for the European Year for […]
December 12, 2014

European Year for Development – Action Day January 15th 2015

2015 is finally here and what a very important year it promises to be for all of us. Governments the world over will, in September 2015, agree a road […]