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Six Months After Typhoon Haiyan
Six months after the devastion of Typhoon Haiyan, we look at the emergency and reconstruction work that has been u...
Read ArticleRwanda genocide anniversary: are we ever going to make the words ‘never again’ mean something?
By Éamonn Meehan, Executive Director Twenty years ago I witnessed one of the fastest migrations in human history, as a ...
Read ArticleHave we learned any lessons from the Rwandan genocide?
By Eithne McNulty, Regional Manager, Trócaire Belfast Today (April 7th) marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genoc...
Read ArticleLent is not only a time to give something up. It is an opportunity to take up active citizenship, to kick start th...
Read ArticleVolunteer report: Trócaire’s vital water projects in Ethiopia
by Rebecca Smyth, Trócaire Volunteer In February 2014, Rebecca Smyth travelled to Ethiopia to visit Trócaire pr...
Read ArticleSuccess in the struggle for water in Zimbabwe: Thandiwe Ncube’s story
by Margaret Masanga and Nelly Maonde, Trócaire Zimbabwe Trócaire marks International Women’s Day (8 March) wi...
Read ArticleReclaiming historic memory and public space in Guatemala
by Aisling Walsh, Guatemala The 25th of February 2014 marked the 15th anniversary of the publication of ‘Memory...
Read ArticleFood Not Fuel: Evicted families in Guatemala still face an uncertain future
Manuel Laj Ical and his daughter Wilma at their house in 8 de agosto. Right: Juana Laj Ical finishing one of her handmad...
Read Article‘Up To Us’ Poetry Competition 2014
by Trish Groves, Campaigns Officer Trócaire and Poetry Ireland proudly launched our third joint poetry competition on M...
Read ArticleTrócaire makes submission to government on Ireland’s foreign policy
By Michael O’Brien, Policy Officer The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is conducting a review of Ir...
Read ArticleThere are lots of easy changes we can all make in our daily lives to make them more sustainable and play a part in comba...
Read ArticleThere are few striding with confidence up the path to Geneva II
There are few striding with confidence up the path to Geneva II, but at least with attendance there is hope, and that is...
Read ArticleBiofuel policy is feeding cars but starving people
by Éamonn Meehan, Executive Director If a policy was enacted that not only failed to achieve its intended result...
Read ArticleJanuary 2013 Trócaire marked the anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti on 12 January, meeting some of the ...
Read ArticleThank you for all your support in 2013
The Christmas and New Year period is a time to reflect on how the support of people all over Ireland has helped to chang...
Read ArticleEducating for sustainable development
by Claire O’Carroll, Development Education Officer Trócaire’s Development Education team is taking part in a...
Read ArticleSupport ‘invisible children’ this Human Rights Day
Today, 49% of children in the world’s poorest countries are denied formal birth registration. Caption...
Read ArticleThe changing shape of human rights in Myanmar
By Catriona Knapman, Governance and Human Rights Officer, Myanmar Myanmar was once world renowned as a country wi...
Read ArticleNelson Mandela’s passing reminds us that we must recommit ourselves to his values
By Éamonn Meehan, Trócaire Executive Director I met Nelson Mandela at an event in Dublin in the late 1990s. Dur...
Read ArticleTrócaire campaign highlights how women are disproportionately affected by HIV and calls on the Irish government to addr...
Read ArticleDriving through the city, I saw approximately 100 dead bodies
The damage begins100 kilometres from Tacloban, rising in intensity with each passing kilometre until the true horro...
Read Articleby Dr Lorna Gold, Head of Policy and Advocacy with Trócaire The tragedy of super-Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the P...
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