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Launch: Realising Rights for Women and Children, ActionAid Ireland Strategy

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Join ActionAid for the launch of Realising Rights for Women and Children, ActionAid Ireland Strategy 2017 – 2021 on Monday the 12th of June, from 2pm – 4pm in the Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2. Speakers Speakers include RTE journalist Gavin Jennings who saw ActionAid’s work first hand in Kenya in 2014; Siobhán McGee, CEO ActionAid Ireland; Winifred Ikhine […]

How the change makers need to change

Laura Sullivan, originally from Galway, is ActionAid’s Regional Director for Europe and the Americas and is in Dublin today to speak at the Dóchas Conference 2017, entitled ‘Reclaiming the Story.’ The outpouring of peoples’ calls for radical changes in how politics are done – both from progressive and regressive ends of the spectrum – is […]

AFTER Project Launch

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The AFTER Project (Against Female Genital Mutilation / Cutting Through Empowerment and Rejection) was launched on Thursday 26th January, by Joe McHugh TD, Minister for State for Diaspora and International Development. AFTER Project Report Launch On the day a review by Salome Mbugua conducted in mid-2016 was shared. This included a national level analysis and regional study of […]

The Brave Women Fighting to End FGM/C

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“Female genital mutilation is very bad for women. Life becomes painful and it isn’t necessary. My aim in life is to support the cause against female genital mutilation”, Christine. FGM/C Female Genital Mutilation / Cutting (FGM/C), according to the World Health Organisation, has affected over 200 million women and girls alive today across the world. […]

Two Years On from Conflict in Gaza

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ActionAid’s Response in Gaza July 8th marks two years since the 2014 Israeli conflict in Gaza, which left over 2,000 dead and 100,000 Gazans displaced. In response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as a consequence of the war, ActionAid began an emergency programme with a number of local partners in Gaza supporting approximately 16,870 […]

Pearse’s great-grand-nephew on 1916

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Why the values of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising inspire people around the world today, and why they are so needed By Padraig Pearse’s great grand-nephew Ben Phillips (an Englishman) This Easter, people across Ireland are proudly commemorating 100 years since Padraig Pearse and his comrades led the Rising against British Imperial rule. The rebels were […]