ActionAid’s partner organisation in Rafah forced to halt services after staff displaced, as humanitarian operations reach breaking point
Aid workers in Rafah are working against the odds to keep providing life-saving support to people in need, despite facing a level of danger that is unprecedented even within humanitarian emergencies, and experiencing the same inhumane living conditions as the rest of the population. Yet with virtually no aid having entered Gaza for days, their […]
ActionAid Ireland calls on the international community to act to prevent a full-scale invasion of Rafah and a bloodbath
ActionAid Ireland has called on Israel to abandon its catastrophic plan for a full-scale invasion of Rafah with reports of thousands of terrified citizens fleeing the southern Gazan city as airstrikes intensify and aid delivery is disrupted. ActionAid Ireland CEO, Karol Balfe, said it is now imperative that all states do everything in their power […]
Will you take action to demand an end to arms sales to Israel?Â
Today is Global Day of Action Against Arms Sales to Israel. Will you take action to call on the Irish government to use their position in the EU and relationship with the U.S. to end arms sales? It is almost seven months since the sustained bombardments by Israel started in Gaza. To date, over 34,500 […]
Directors of ActionAid in Ireland and the US on three questions Taoiseach Leo Varadkar must ask US President Joe Biden during their Washington meeting to mark St. Patrick’s Day
The scale of suffering and violence in Gaza is horrific. In just five months, 31,000 people, 70% women and children, have been brutally killed. Around 80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes. Children are now dying from starvation due to lack of aid, and famine is imminent. The reality is that all of this […]
Women have experienced the war on Gaza in deadly and brutal ways
The war on Gaza has been brutal and deadly. In just five months, an entire people has experienced unbelievable trauma and unprecedented levels of death. Â But the suffering endured by women in particular in this awful and illegal war has been immense. The statistics are horrific. Two mothers are killed every hour, 8,400 women are […]
Transform systems to avert future humanitarian disasters like in East Africa
Right now, 20 million citizens from Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia in East Africa are facing severe hunger due to cumulative effects of different shocks, notably climate change; internal conflicts; the war in Ukraine’s detrimental impact on food and fuel accessibility; the socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; and destructive desert locusts. Communities, and particularly women, […]