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ActionAid Ireland says displaced women in shelters in Lebanon forced to manage period using black bags

Conditions for women displaced due to attacks by Israeli forces in Lebanon are so bad many are being forced to use scraps of cloth, or to wrap black plastic bags around their waist in place of period products, an ActionAid

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ActionAid Ireland issues urgent statement on the forced evacuation of its partner hospitals in Northern Gaza

ActionAid Ireland is gravely alarmed by the latest directive from the Israeli Army for the full evacuation of its partner hospital, Al-Awda, in Northern Gaza which will have dire impact on patients, medical staff, critically ill individuals in intensive care,

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Agents of Change: Palestine's Women-Led Organisations in Crisis - Impact and Role Highlighted.
New ActionAid Ireland report highlights harrowing impact of war and violence on women and girls in Gaza and the West Bank, and warns of the risk to civilians from regional violence

A new report from ActionAid Ireland exposes the harrowing and dire impact of the bombardment of Gaza and violence in the West Bank on hundreds of thousands of Palestinian on women and girls who face death, horrific violence, forced displacement

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ActionAid Ireland welcomes major UN General Assembly resolution endorsing the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion on Israel’s occupation.

ActionAid Ireland strongly welcomes a major UN General Assembly resolution, and Ireland’s sponsorship of this resolution, that endorsed the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion on Israel’s occupation. Karol Balfe, ActionAid Ireland CEO, said: “We are pleased to see the

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New report highlights continuing aid challenges in Gaza and the West Bank amid growing safety risks

The latest Humanitarian Snapshot Report from NGOs operating in Gaza, including ActionAid, has revealed the safety risks and huge challenges in delivering aid faced by humanitarian workers in Gaza over the last two weeks as the Polio vaccination campaign gets

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ActionAid Ireland says this week should be back to school for Gaza’s school children, but a brutal war has deprived them of education for nearly a year

Today should mark the beginning of a new school year in Gaza, but instead of attending classes, Gaza’s children are living through another day of a brutal war that has deprived them of an education for almost an entire year

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