ActionAid shares horrific experiences of police brutality during Kenya tax protests

  • Date: 28/06/2024
  • Author: ActionAid Ireland

ActionAid has shared shocking testimonies from young people who were brutalised in Kenya while protesting the Finance Bill. Several youth activists affiliated with ActionAid Kenya were beaten, shot at, arrested, and teargassed at the hands of law enforcement agents. ActionAid Ireland CEO, Karol Balfe, said: “We support the urgent call from our ActionAid colleagues in.....

eviction notice letter

Lone parents with children living in Direct Provision face eviction after receiving letters from Department of Children

  • Date: 26/06/2024
  • Author: ActionAid Ireland

ActionAid Ireland has called on the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, to revoke eviction letters sent in recent months to mothers with children living in International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS), saying it could put them on the streets or into emergency accommodation in the next ten days. Letters have been.....