One in three women around the world have experienced either sexual or physical violence, an international conference on gender-based violence in Trinity College has heard today.

A coalition of aid agencies and rights organisations has said the Government must significantly increase the number of refugees it has indicated it will take in.

Hersh Tahir is speaking about the women who have been abducted and abused by IS but who have managed to escape.

Pleas to the Government to hold off ratifying a trade deal that could ruin some of the world’s most vulnerable farmers are being ignored.

Charities in hot water over their failure to disclose financial details should follow the example of Irish Aid when it comes to transparency, the minister in charge of the programme has said.

Ireland is sending €220,000 worth of supplies to Iraq.

The Department of Finance is launching a consultation process to examine the way the country’s corporate tax system affects developing countries.

Ireland is to provide aid worth €125,000 to help families affected by Typhoon Bopha, the Minister for Trade and Development Joe Costello confirmed today.

ON the dusty cracked streets of Kabul, small cars jostle for space with weapon-laden military convoys.

President Mary McAleese today told Haiti’s head of state Ireland was praying for his country after the devastating earthquake thought to have killed tens of thousands of people.

The Government today offered emergency aid and put teams of relief workers on standby to travel to earthquake-hit Haiti.

Irish NGOs working in the developing world are to launch a campaign against further cuts in government funding.

World leaders must put tackling poverty at the heart of future global policy making, Irish campaigners demanded today.

AS the World Bank meets in Dublin this week we, as Irish global justice organisations, would like to highlight our deep concerns about the often devastating impact of the bank’s practices on the lives of poor people throughout the world.

FUNDRAISERS yesterday embarked on a 14-day trek across Cork and Kerry to raise money for life-saving wells in Malawi.

Fundraisers today embarked on a 14-day trek across Cork and Kerry to raise money for life-saving wells in Malawi.

The Government today pledged €10m to support humanitarian work by relief agencies in Africa.

A deal to erase billions of dollars of debt for poor countries cleared an important hurdle, winning the endorsement of the International Monetary Fund’s steering committee.

The Nude cafe chain and Christian Aid Ireland have launched a new incentive to raise funds for Third World water projects.

TALKS designed to change the face of farming around the world collapsed last night amid differences between rich and poor nations, the second failure for the World Trade Organisation in four years.