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# Humanitarian Aid

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May 2023
# Sudan
Blasts rock Khartoum as warring sides meet to prevent 'humanitarian catastrophe'
More than 750 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced since fighting erupted on 15 April.
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# Humanitarian Aid
Aid bodies suspend Afghanistan operations after ban on women aid workers
The UN also said that some of its time-critical programmes have had to stop temporarily due to lack of female staff.
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Dec 29th 2022, 11:33 AM
# Explainer
'An economic implosion': Afghanistan's hunger crisis explained
Some 55% of the Afghan population is now suffering from hunger, according to the United Nations.
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Feb 5th 2022, 9:45 AM
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# sean binder
Widely criticised trial of Irishman in Greece adjourned, moved to appeals court
Greek authorities have been accused of attempting to discourage humanitarian work by criminalising volunteers.
Human rights organisations have accused Greece of attempting to criminalise aid work for migrants, Michelle Hennessy reports.
A protest in Brussels this week called for authorities to drop the charges.
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Nov 18th 2021, 2:16 PM
# Bab al-Hawa
Rare cooperation between Russia and US sees cross-border aid to Syria continue
The approved text is an amalgam of two drafts – one proposed by Ireland and Norway, and another by Russia.
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Jul 9th 2021, 9:24 PM
Voices
Opinion: In makeshift refugee camps a lost generation of Syrian children cling to hope
The Syrian crisis may be entering its ninth year but a return home still feels a long way off for half a million children stranded in Lebanon, writes Aine Costigan
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Mar 25th 2019, 7:00 AM
# Humanitarian Aid
Coveney announces further €2 million of government funding for Palestinian people
Ireland’s total funding to Palestinian people this year amounted to €15.38 million.
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Dec 22nd 2018, 10:33 AM
Voices
Simon Coveney in Jordan: '80,000 live in Zaatari refugee camp. That's the same population as Galway City'
‘Children are growing up in Zaatari refugee camp having never known any other home,’ writes Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney.
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Jun 9th 2018, 3:00 PM
# Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg apologises for use of VR video to highlight Puerto Rico aid message
Yesterday, Zuckerberg used Facebook’s app Spaces to roam through a VR-produced 360 video of Puerto Rico.
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Oct 11th 2017, 9:50 PM
# good news
Two leading charities, Oxfam Ireland and GOAL, enter into merger negotiations
If the merger goes ahead the new global development agency named Oxfam Goal will be based in Ireland
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Feb 14th 2017, 7:04 PM
# hurricane matthew
Ireland to provide humanitarian aid after storm kills 300 in Haiti
The US is now bracing itself for Hurricane Matthew, with states of emergencies declared in a number of places.
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Oct 7th 2016, 2:40 PM
# Humanitarian Aid
Ireland is giving €7.5 million to help Syrian people
“Ireland remains committed to the delivery of humanitarian assistance.”
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Oct 6th 2016, 2:10 PM
# humanitarians
Irish Naval Service crew to be given medals for assistance with migrant crisis
The Irish Naval Service has rescued over 11,500 migrants to date.
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Sep 4th 2016, 6:31 PM
# Kremlin
Russian military helicopter shot down over Syria
The five people on board are believed to have died.
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Aug 1st 2016, 12:51 PM
# Civil War
Aid will finally reach 500,000 besieged Syrians today but peace is a long way off
Almost half a million people in Syria are in areas under siege.
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Feb 17th 2016, 7:15 AM
# refugee crisis
Ireland is giving more money to help people suffering in Syria
A total of €13 million in humanitarian support has now been committed to victims of the Syrian conflict by the Irish government this year.
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Dec 14th 2015, 8:00 AM
Voices
Column: Syria is the humanitarian tragedy of our generation, yet most people just shrug their shoulders
Massacres, hostage-taking, torture and sexual violence. These are the war crimes happening in Syria, yet why don’t we care, asks GOAL CEO Barry Andrews.
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Sep 12th 2014, 1:00 PM
# Charity
28 million people in the Middle East need humanitarian aid
Today is World Humanitarian Day and Oxfam Ireland are calling for help.
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Aug 19th 2014, 7:30 AM
# Careful Now
Ukraine isn't going to let Russia's 'humanitarian convoy' across its border
Russia insisted its military would not be involved in the convoy, but Kiev said Moscow could only play a role as part of a broader Red Cross mission.
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Aug 12th 2014, 12:06 PM
# Civil War
Nearly 11 million Syrians are in urgent need of humanitarian aid
In his monthly report to the UN Security Council, Ban Ki-moon said that nearly half of the country is in need of immediate help.
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Jun 21st 2014, 8:58 AM
# 3rd anniversary
This video of a fictional civil war in the West is the daily reality for children in Syria
The striking clip brings home the effect the conflict is having on children.
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Mar 6th 2014, 2:50 PM
# Aid
Latest round of Irish humanitarian funding for Syrian crisis announced
€5.3 million has been approved, out of a total of €12 million this year.
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Feb 16th 2014, 3:34 PM
# Syria
Ireland is providing another €12 million in Syrian aid
This brings the total contribution by Ireland since 2011 to over €26 million.
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Jan 15th 2014, 1:04 PM
# typhoon yolande
Plane filled with aid from "generous" Irish leaves for Philippines
The aid is being sent by GOAL on a special Aer Lingus flight to the stricken country.
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Nov 24th 2013, 12:36 PM
Voices
Column: “Being caught with patients is like being caught with a weapon”
The Syrian people are now presented with the absurd situation of weapons inspectors freely driving through areas of desperate need – while the ambulances, food and drug supplies organised by humanitarian organisations are blocked.
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Nov 2nd 2013, 12:00 PM
Voices
Column: Are you in or out? Welcome to the great digital divide
The facts are clear: if we want to continue to help the most vulnerable people in this digital age, we must provide the nuts and bolts for the bridge to cross the digital divide, writes John Roche.
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Oct 17th 2013, 1:00 PM
# Aid
Ireland to give an additional €3m in humanitarian aid to Syria
Ireland’s total contribution to the international humanitarian response in Syria is almost €14 million.
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Oct 7th 2013, 7:28 AM
Voices
Column: There has never been a more dangerous time to be an aid worker
On World Humanitarian Day, Dominic MacSorely hails the men and women who have dedicated their lives, and sometimes lost them, in an attempt to reduce suffering across the world.
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Aug 19th 2013, 1:00 PM
# medecins sans frontieres
Médecins Sans Frontières closes centres in Somalia after attacks on staff
After 22 years of work, MSF blames civilians leaders’ tolerance of these abuses.
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Aug 14th 2013, 1:21 PM
# Humanitarian Aid
Ireland announces €3.8m in funding for UN agencies and NGOs in Congo
Seven million people have died as a result of war in DR Congo since 1998 – making it the one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II, said the Minister for Trade and Development.
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Mar 8th 2013, 7:45 PM
# Poverty
Oxfam Ireland fears EU budget cuts will leave millions in poverty
The charity said that the €6.1 billion which is set to be cut could instead help lift 4.6 million people out of extreme poverty.
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Feb 7th 2013, 6:30 AM
# Syria
Over 12,000 Syrians flee to Jordan in six days
The UN has predicted that the number of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries will double to 1.1 million by June if the civil war in Syria does not end.
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Jan 22nd 2013, 2:15 PM
# Syria
Assad warns against armed intervention
Meanwhile the UN has said that the need for humanitarian aid in Syria could rise sharply early next year.
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Nov 9th 2012, 8:14 AM
# Syria
Costello to announce increase in humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees
The junior foreign minister will visit a refugee camp in Jordan this week where it’s expected he will announce a significant increase in humanitarian aid for people displaced by the civil war.
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Aug 25th 2012, 11:32 AM
# Red Crescent
Aid team gains entry to struggling region of Homs in Syria
The food and emergency aid convoy has spent the past six days trying to secure entry to Baba Amr.
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Mar 7th 2012, 3:02 PM
# Haiti
Govt to commit outstanding €1.5m of Haiti aid 'in coming months'
Minister of State Joe Costello says Ireland has paid €11.5 million of the €13 million pledged at the 2010 donor conference.
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Feb 23rd 2012, 10:35 PM
# Syria
Red Cross seeks to broker Syrian ceasefire
The ICRC says it is engaging with government and opposition groups to work out a deal to end fighting in the most affected areas.
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Feb 20th 2012, 5:09 PM
# Crises
Political and media interests direct international response to disaster: Oxfam
The humanitarian organisation says government responses to crises remains ‘too little, too late’.
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Feb 7th 2012, 7:41 AM
# Haiti
Haiti two years on: finding jobs is now the priority
Oxfam’s Caroline Gluck reports from the island nation still struggling to recover from the devastating impact of the 2010 earthquake.
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Jan 2nd 2012, 8:00 AM
# Earthquake
Turkish quake: Japanese aid worker among the dead
A Japanese aid worker has become the latest of at least a dozen people to fall victim to Turkey’s treacherous fault lines, following a magnitude-5.7 quake in Van on Wednesday.
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