Conflict and food insecurity
The Iran war could potentially drive another 45m people into acute food insecurity, writes the chief executive of Concern Worldwide
Concern
Manager who says he was taken down by ‘woke alliance’ fails in challenge to dismissal
Lee Caluan went to WRC after losing call-centre manager job with Concern Worldwide
NGOs to receive funds worth €100 million from Irish Aid
Government grants will deliver development, humanitarian and climate projects in 45 countries
We thought situation in Sudan could not get much worse, yet it has
Without a ceasefire and a massive scaling-up of aid, millions more could face starvation
Wars and aid cuts fuelling surge in world hunger, report warns
Global Hunger Index says possibility of achieving the UN goal of zero hunger by 2030 is ‘slipping away’
Neale Richmond to warn of ‘unnecessary suffering’ as international donors cut overseas aid
Government to say Ireland spending record amounts as it launches annual report of Irish Aid
Concern Worldwide faces shutdown in some countries amid budget cuts, lost US funding
Irish international humanitarian agency says more jobs at risk
‘Not viable’ for Government to provide funds to replace US aid programme cuts, says Minister
Richmond says there will be no reduction in Ireland’s expenditure on overseas aid
Concern Worldwide lays off almost 400 staff citing ‘aid funding cuts’
Positions at risk in organisation’s Dublin head office but numbers unclear due to ‘fluidity of the situation’
Irish aid agency Goal hit by Trump spending freeze
Organisation’s annual report for 2023 describes USAid as ‘largest donor’ at €103m
Death announced of East Timor peace campaigner Tom Hyland (72)
Tributes to former Ballyfermot bus driver led by President Michael D Higgins
Global hunger levels ‘to stay high for another 136 years’, assessment finds
42 countries have ‘serious’ or ‘alarming’ hunger levels as conflict takes toll
Michael Darragh Macauley: ‘I find it enjoyable to give back. I don’t do it for Instagram likes. I do it because it makes me happy.’
The former Dublin footballer may have left the GAA pitch behind, but he is playing to win in new territory: as CEO of Sanctuary Runners, making a difference to the lives of asylum seekers and migrants
One of Ireland’s most experienced aid workers: ‘The secrecy of HIV and Aids is worse now, it went underground during Covid’
Breda Gahan's work as a nurse and midwife brought her from the frontlines of the 1980s Aids epidemic in Dublin to conflicts and humanitarian crises across the globe and she has no intention of stopping
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