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Equality dominates local headlines and cut through a huge number of contentious issues in NI and throughout the world. But what does it mean, why is it a good thing, and how do we ensure its impact is as positive as possible?

Senior health officials will be wrestling with an extremely tricky dilemma this week.

This week saw the publication of a report into discrimination against Travellers published by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission

The NI Audit Office report released this week outlines 15 years of missed opportunities to improve diabetes care. The findings serve as a cautionary tale for the ongoing failures in wider health reform.

The Good Friday Agreement has come under a barrage of criticism as part of the Brexit arguments. Threatening it wholesale is madness – but nothing should be free from scrutiny.

Nick Garbutt asks if devolving more power to local councils might help provide some of the political stability Northern Ireland so desperately needs. 

Neil Wilson, Information Officer at NICVA, argues that GDPR will bring benefits for the Third Sector.

Kevin Higgins, Head of Policy at Advice NI on the past, present and future of social security in the UK. 

NI’s poverty woes have been in the headlines this week – the last decade has been wasted. However, the story goes further: the nature of poverty has changed, which must be recognised if the problem is to be fixed.

Most pundits are concerned about the political fall-out from the failed talks process. But what does it mean for government itself, and civil society?

Charitable giving in Northern Ireland fell last year when compared with 2016 – although this drop brings 2017 more into line with recent times. Scope takes a look at NICVA’s latest research into who makes donations, and how.

The health service is 70 years old this July. Last weekend thousands gathered in central Belfast to protest at its current malaise.

NICVA has joined together with partner organisations in Scotland and Wales to compile a list of key aims for the UK’s withdrawal of the EU. Top of the list is membership of the single market and customs union.

Two quotes 120 years apart about the value of the Arts and Culture signify the shift we are currently seeing. 

Two years of research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Frameworks Institute have found that traditional campaigns against poverty tend to backfire. If this issue is to be tackled, a new approach is required.

 “the blue bus is callin' us Driver, where you taken us” The End by The Doors 

The absence of local political leadership is having a harmful effect on human rights, according to the Human Rights Commissioner.

Modern best practice in the third sector hinges on services that have been designed – or, at the very least informed – by the users themselves.

Twenty two years ago a brilliant mathematician showed uncanny prescience when he anticipated a great debate about automation and artificial intelligence.

Stormont collapsed 12 months ago leaving Northern Ireland in stasis while Brexit plans are shaped and the health service crumbles. Here we look at NICVA’s response to a Westminster consultation on the crisis.