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In its short existence the Galway National Park City (GNPC) initiative, based on connecting people and nature in an urban environment and with an sustainability ethos, has had a positive impact on the local landscape providing opportunities and collaborations for citizens and organisations from different sectors to creatively work together on successfully developing new pioneering environmental and sustainability programmes.

Tomorrow December 17, Galway City Community Network (GCCN) will host a seminar exploring the Implementation of the Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty in Galway City which will include the launch of the Equality and Rights in Action Galway video and community resources.

A policy roundtable on the views of older healthcare and financial sector workers on the proposed increases to the state pension age will take place on today Thursday, June 10.

Alone, the organisation which supports older people, is highlighting the importance of physical movement for joint health in older people.

NUI Galway has announced the appointment of Professor Jim Livesey as Vice-President for Research and Innovation. Professor Livesey joins from the University of Dundee, where he served as Dean of Humanities since 2014.

A Galway project has won funding support for its work on human rights and equality.

The deadline is approaching for applications from to Rethink Ireland’s €3m Equality Fund. Rethink Ireland is calling on Westmeath groups to apply for grant aid under the scheme before September 14.

While COVID-19 has taken centre-stage here in Ireland - including shaping debate about Government formation - and there has been a sense of collective effort by all aspects of our polity, other countries, like the USA, have a rather different dynamic.

Alice-Mary Higgins has been "a remarkably effective and progressive" member of Seanad Éireann, "with a sharp eye for human rights", and who has the potential to continue "invaluable and reforming work" in the upper house.

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has called on Mayo employers to think about how they can make access to job recruitment and workplaces across the county fairer for people with disabilities.