The speakers at the conference will include the South African ambassador to Ireland, Melanie Verwoerd, and Sister Bernadette McMahon and Sister Margo Delaney of the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice.
Human dignity must be at the heart of the state’s treatment of immigrant workers as the country’s population heads towards 4.5 million, it was claimed today.
The Conference of Religious in Ireland (CORI) said there would be serious implications for way people lived their lives and spent their money.
“Ireland’s population passed four million last year for the first time since 1871 and it will reach 4.5m in about six years time. The challenges in that context are massive because we will be becoming a very multicultural society in a very short time frame,” said director Fr Sean Healy.
CORI is hosting a conference on the subject of human dignity in a globalised world in Dublin today.
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