Place: Dún Laoghaire Co Dublin

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Torn apart by war and no one notices

CONGRATULATIONS to Stephen King (Opinion, August 23) for a very moving and informative account of his visit to Cambodia.

China and Darfur: let’s follow Spielberg’s lead

Government must press UN to act on Somalia

Columnist as a political cynic

Irish play key role in Sri Lanka tsunami relief

WHILE questions that dogged the tsunami recovery effort through 2006 coalesced in a crop of media stories and critical reports of the failure of the international community’s response to the December 2004 disaster, the Irish public should feel proud of their involvement.

Sat, 03 Mar, 2007

The rich don’t care and the poor keep dying

LIKE the gathering in Gleneagles, the world summit in New York last week elected neatly to sidestep the substantive issues which need to be tackled, if the lot of the poor in the developing world is to be significantly improved.

Fri, 23 Sep, 2005

Changing roles

UNTIL recently a typical family had one income and the parents cared for their own children.

Tue, 13 Sep, 2005

Save the portraits, but forget the people

IT is indicative of the mess that the UN is in that it should establish a rapid reaction force to save works of art from destruction in times of war or natural disaster when it hasn’t yet established such a force to save lives.

Sat, 20 Nov, 2004

Conviction politics

SINN FÉIN opposed the appointment of an EU commissioner because of his strongly-held Catholic convictions.

Sat, 06 Nov, 2004

UN resolution does nothing for Darfur

EOIN RYAN, MEP, has accurately outlined the current situation in Darfur in his recent letter (‘Sudan must guarantee aid workers’ safety, Irish Examiner, September 17).

Tue, 21 Sep, 2004