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Why focus on one conflict above all others?

IN his column (May 13), Steven King highlighted how the world, and in particular the media, tends to focus on the more “fashionable” Israeli-Palestine conflict over the numerous others ongoing and desperate conflicts elsewhere.

Why focus on one conflict above all others?

Firms asked to supply a volunteer to charity

Forget Mugabe — help his people

Obama can be the new Mandela in fight against world poverty

Millions facing famine in Burma and Ethiopia

Darfur needs a force that can do the job

THE UN’s peacekeeping chief’s recent warning that the planned mission for Darfur may not deploy does not come as a surprise.

Mon, 17 Dec, 2007

Government must act in Ethiopian crisis

THE Government must use its influence with the Ethiopian authorities to allow food aid to flow to the people of the Ogaden.

Thu, 18 Oct, 2007

China would listen to boycott

JOHN FITZGERALD’S letter (October 8) calling for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics should be given serious consideration. It has become plain that the Chinese view the staging of the Olympics as the most important event to ever take place on Chinese soil.

Fri, 12 Oct, 2007

Volunteers who can make vital difference

GOAL is keen to hear from doctors, nurses and nutritionists interested in transferring their technical and employment skills and personality to an arena where the difference can mean life and death.

Mon, 07 May, 2007

400,000 murdered and 2.5 million at risk, but there’s still no trace of the UN peacekeepers

Statistics, as we know, can be infuriatingly boring. However, in the case of the Darfur tragedy they can be helpful to understand the seriousness of the situation.

Tue, 07 Nov, 2006

Darfur: it’s time to break the China connection

A TRUE measure of the Irish Government’s commitment to conflict resolution in our aid programme is their effort in Darfur, as pointed out in your editorial headlined ‘Government must act on Darfur crisis’ (Irish Examiner, September 19).

Mon, 25 Sep, 2006

Ethiopia must withdraw from Somalia

WHILE the focus of the international community continues to be riveted on events in the Lebanon, another invasion recently occurred — this time on the African continent — with little public awareness.

Fri, 28 Jul, 2006

Bertie should initiate UN action on Burma

YOUR report headlined ‘World protests at continued arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi’ (Irish Examiner, June 20) brings into focus the fact that the plight of Burma’s democratically elected leader remains the same now as it has been since 1996.

Tue, 27 Jun, 2006

Irish state aid going to some of most corrupt countries in the world

THE European Commission’s refusal this week to give Bulgaria and Romania its blessing to join the EU over corruption concerns once again highlights the growing consensus that no economy can prosper unless the cancer of corruption is first eliminated.

Sat, 27 May, 2006

Government should act after ruling on Uganda

HOW satisfying to read the International Court of Justice finding that Uganda should pay repatriation (possibly as much as $10bn) to the Democratic Republic of Congo for its role in looting during the 1998-2003 war (Examiner, December 21).

Wed, 04 Jan, 2006

We support countries that honoured tyrant

TYRANNICAL former Ugandan Prime Minister Milton Obote was given a full state funeral last week - despite being accused of killing 500,000 of his own people.

Thu, 27 Oct, 2005

GOAL chief offers an apology to the army

ON Tuesday last, in the course of a Morning Ireland discussion on the Government sending troops to New Orleans, I inadvertently used the term “boy scouts to the Somme” while attempting to make an analogy.

Thu, 08 Sep, 2005

West’s priorities an indictment of us all

THE excellent article by Caroline O’Doherty headlined ‘Should claiming space cost the earth?’ hits the nail on the head (Irish Examiner, August 11).

Mon, 22 Aug, 2005

Ireland urged to shun Uganda’s rotten regime

LAST May, Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern announced that he was withholding €2m in aid from the Ugandan Government, from a total budget to the country of €33m.

Fri, 22 Jul, 2005

Enduring legacy of Irish missionaries

FERGUS FINLAY’S column (Irish Examiner, May 31), dealing with his late brother Derek’s and other missionaries’ egalitarian motives, touched a chord.

Thu, 09 Jun, 2005

We are underwriting corruption in Uganda

IRISH taxpayers are entitled to an explanation from the Government following the decision to slash €2 million from the aid budget to the Ugandan government.

Mon, 23 May, 2005

Your donations are making a difference

I WISH to express my profound thanks to readers for their extraordinary generosity to GOAL’s south-east Asia appeal.

Tue, 01 Feb, 2005

Congo on the brink of another holocaust

THESE are dangerous days for people in the east of The Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Wed, 15 Dec, 2004

Famine and folly haunt Ethiopia

there no end to the suffering that the people of Ethiopia must endure?

Fri, 01 Oct, 2004