The best response when the world as we know it is in deep crisis? My answer – join together, work together on our common goals.
  • Date: 01/10/2020
  • Author: Jo-Ann Ward

Blog by ActionAid Ireland, CEO, Siobhan McGee, originally posted on the Dochas website: https://www.dochas.ie/blog/best-response-when-world-we-know-it-deep-crisis-my-answer-join-together-work-together-our Dochas is the Irish Association of NGOs. Recently, on 22 September 2020, after years in the planning, six NGOs* launched a new alliance – the Irish Emergency Alliance – specially formed to fundraise jointly in response to humanitarian disasters. Many of.....

18 Irish NGOs sign open letter requesting urgent relocation of young refugees displaced by Moria fire
  • Date: 23/09/2020
  • Author: Jo-Ann Ward

Members of the Irish public pictured on Sandymount beach in 2015. Today, as the EU publish a new Pact on Asylum and Migration, 18 NGOs from across Ireland, including ActionAid, wrote to Taoiseach Martin and Ministers Coveney, McEntee, O’Gorman and Byrne, requesting the urgent relocation of unaccompanied children and young people from Greece to Ireland.....

The Irish Emergency Alliance: All you need to know
  • Date: 22/09/2020
  • Author: Jo-Ann Ward

Hazera gets her temperature taken outside ActionAid’s women-friendly space in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Credit: Fabeha Monir/ActionAid