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‘He left home and then disappeared’: a Honduran migrant’s story
By Jose Alfredo Coto, Trócaire Honduras Carlos was 21 years old when he decided to try for a better life. He packe...
Read Article‘Vote with your head, not with your heart!’ Women in Myanmar and their right to vote.
By Sarah Mc Can, Development Programmes Manager, Trócaire Myanmar. November 8th 2015 will mark a historic day in M...
Read ArticleTrócaire welcomes Irish Government’s decision to receive 4,000 refugees into Ireland
by Éamonn Meehan, Executive Director of Trócaire Today’s announcement is welcome. The decision to welcome 4,000 refu...
Read ArticleRecall the Dáil to respond to the European refugee crisis
Trócaire call for the Dáil to be recalled early to “establish an immediate and effective response” from Ir...
Read ArticleEU needs to treat the unprecedented European migration crisis as a humanitarian emergency
Trócaire has called on the EU to treat the unprecedented European migration crisis as a humanitarian emergency and comm...
Read ArticleThey are not just migrants, they are real people
By Éamonn Meehan Another week, another appalling loss of life in the Mediterranean. Around 200 people a...
Read ArticleGaza: Not a single home has been rebuilt
One year ago, the Gaza strip was ravaged by an Israeli military operation (‘Protective Edge’) that lasted 50 da...
Read ArticleUpdate on Trócaire’s work in DRC
Sorcha Fennell reports on a recent visit to Trócaire-funded projects in Bunia in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (...
Read ArticleArchbishop Romero: A hero who died for the liberation of the poor
By Jose Adan Cuadra On the 24th of March 1980, Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, was shot and ...
Read ArticleMy friends in Susiya should not have their homes destroyed
By Emmet Sheerin, Trócaire Campaigns Officer If your home was set to be demolished and your village wiped-off the ...
Read ArticleArchbishop Oscar Romero – ‘This outspoken champion for the poor guides Trócaire today’
Since Trócaire’s foundation in 1973, human rights in Central America has been at the core of our work. Highlighting t...
Read ArticleEU must get on board to tackle refugee crisis
This article was originally published in The Irish Examiner on April 24th, 2015. EU leaders met last night to discuss th...
Read ArticleHonduras: Update on the Lent 2011 community
Four years ago at Lent, Trócaire highlighted the difficulties faced by the small farming community of La Confianza in t...
Read ArticleWorking for peace in Northern Kenya
Trócaire’s Michelle Hoctor writes about Father Patrick Devine, a Trócaire partner working on conflict issue...
Read ArticleBy Noelle Fitzpatrick, Trócaire’s Syria Response Officer The Arab Spring began four years ago, in December...
Read ArticleBy Garry Walsh, Programme Officer, Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel I was really happy to get acces...
Read ArticleLife for Syrian refugees in Lebanon
By Noelle Fitzpatrick, Trócaire’s Syria Response Officer, reports on her recent experiences meeting Syrian refugees i...
Read ArticleHow radio helps to build peace in South Sudan
By Faith Kasina Pass by any tea kiosk or shopping outlet strewn along the roadsides, or a fleet of commuter bikes common...
Read ArticleAlmost seven years on, where is the justice for Kenya’s victims of post-election violence?
By James Mwangi, Governance and Human Rights Officer in Kenya, and Julian Waagensen, Governance and Human Rights Policy ...
Read ArticleLand for 110 violently evicted Guatemalan families
As the sun rose on the Polochic valley 525 women, men and children belonging to various communities began a twelve hour ...
Read ArticleAll change? New faces at home and abroad on climate change
In her new role as UN Special Envoy for Climate Change, Mary Robinson’s task is nothing short of convincing ...
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