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Aid groups stop operations in Afghanistan as Taliban ban women NGO staff

Several aid groups are suspending operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban imposed a new ban on women working in non-governmental organizations, potentially disrupting humanitarian assistance to millions during the harsh winter months.

Tribune News Service · Dec 26, 2022

Climate change will fuel humanitarian crises in 2023 -study

Climate change will accelerate humanitarian crises around the world in 2023, adding to the issues created by armed conflict and economic downturns, according to a study by the NGO International Rescue Committee (IRC).

Reuters · Dec 14, 2022

Crisis-hit Somalia, Ethiopia top aid group's Watchlist for 2023

Somalia and Ethiopia, both Horn of Africa nations ravaged by drought and conflict, will be the countries of highest concern in 2023, according to an annual Watchlist issued by the International Rescue Committee aid group on Wednesday.

Reuters · Dec 14, 2022

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Father-and-son crew Andrew and Harry Miller eye Sydney to Hobart glory

Experienced Sydney to Hobart sailor Andrew Miller was already keen to partner his son, Harry, in his first attempt at the race. Now, after changes to include two-handed crews in the race for the Tattersall Cup overall handicap prize, the Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club duo are eyeing a special debut…

Newcastle Herald · Dec 12, 2022

NI Protocol needs resolved to stop loyalist paramilitaries “finding momentum”, MPs told

Independent Reporting Commission updates Northern Ireland Affairs Committee members

Belfast Live · Dec 12, 2022

Agreement on NI Protocol needed to halt ‘momentum’ for paramilitaries, MPs told

The comment came as the Independent Reporting Commission addressed the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at Westminster.

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2022

New initiative takes aim at mental health crisis among refugees

ATLANTA — U.S. troops’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan is something Hogai Nassery has been confronted by long after August 2021, when the last plane took off from Kabul, marking the end of the U.S.’ longest war. Starting last year, Nassery has supported Afghan evacuees who have resettled in metro Atlanta…

Tribune News Service · Dec 8, 2022

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Formal engagement process with paramilitaries recommended by commission

The body published its fifth report on Wednesday on progress towards ending paramilitarism in Northern Ireland.

The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2022

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre requires 'urgent improvement' in safety procedures

Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) holds a number of extremely vulnerable women but inspection of the centre found the need for 'urgent improvement' in areas of safety

Chronicle Live · Dec 6, 2022

WA nurses union avoids deregistration, says no plans for further strikes in bitter pay dispute

The Australian Nursing Federation says a threat to deregister the union in WA will not be carried out after it met with the state's Industrial Relations Commission, adding it has no plans for further strikes.

ABC News · Dec 1, 2022

Australian Medical Association slams Industrial Relations Commission over nurses union threat

The head of the peak medical organisation representing doctors in WA describes a threat to deregister the Australian Nursing Federation as "Thatcher-like".

ABC News · Nov 29, 2022

As nurses strike, WA's Industrial Relation Commission faces its biggest challenge in years

WA's Industrial Relations Commission resolves disputes in the workplace, but it now runs the risk of being a toothless tiger as WA's nurses flatly ignored its orders and started a strike.

ABC News · Nov 25, 2022

Western Australian nurses and midwives strike after rejecting pay and conditions offer

Nurses and midwives have walked off the job, after their union rejected the government's latest pay and conditions offer.

ABC News · Nov 25, 2022

WA nurses ordered to call off strike after fresh Industrial Relations Commission hearing

Western Australia's Industrial Relations Commission orders the state's nurses to call off planned industrial action – an instruction that will almost certainly be ignored.

ABC News · Nov 23, 2022

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Reuters · Nov 15, 2022

Donors must act now to save East Africa from famine, IRC says

Donors need to provide cash now to save lives and not wait for famine to be declared in parts of East Africa where tens of millions of people are going hungry, the head of the International Rescue Committee said on Tuesday.

ABC News · Nov 11, 2022

NSW teachers union says new pay deal of 6 per cent over two years won't help shortage crisis

Following protracted negotiations and major industrial action, the state's industrial relations commission gives teachers a 6 per cent pay increase over two years which the union says amounts to a real wage cut.

Al Jazeera · Nov 5, 2022

Malnutrition woes overwhelm children in northeast Nigeria

Over 1.3 million children under 5 are likely suffering acute malnourishment in northeast Nigeria, according to the UN.

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2022

‘More dignity’: aid organisations switch to cash in drought-hit Ethiopia

Giving people money is said to be more efficient and empowering than in-kind aid such as sacks of grain

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Daily Mirror · Oct 17, 2022

Cholera spreading rapidly through Syria with 13,000 cases and 60 deaths

There is now 40 percent less drinking water than before the conflict began over a decade ago, according to the IRC and only 65 percent of hospitals and 56 percent of public health care centres are fully functional

Reuters · Oct 15, 2022

Aid worker killed in air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray region, IRC says

An aid worker was among three people killed during an air strike on the town of Shire in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, the International Rescue Committee said on Saturday.

Newcastle Herald · Oct 12, 2022

Hunter teachers wear red as Industrial Relations Commission decision looms

"We are burning out."

The Hindu · Sep 22, 2022

‘Easy to install’ speed breakers make ride uneasy for motorists

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Ballotpedia · Sep 20, 2022

New York judge dismisses petition to compel the state’s redistricting commission to submit new congressional, legislative maps for use in 2024

Albany County Supreme Court justice Peter Lynch dismissed on Sept. 12 a petition seeking to compel the New York State Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) to submit a second set of redistricting plans for the legislature to consider as part of redistricting after the 2020 census. Several New York state residents…

Tribune News Service · Sep 20, 2022

Many refugees dealing with trauma face obstacles to mental health care

As a young boy living in what was then Zaire, Bertine Bahige remembers watching refugees flee from the Rwandan genocide in 1994 by crossing a river that forms the two Central African nations’ border.

Radio France Internationale · Sep 12, 2022

Paris Perspective #33: Global crises and the International Rescue Committee - David Miliband

In this edition of Paris Perspective, RFI's David Coffey meets former UK foreign secretary and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, David Miliband, to discuss the crises the world is facing in 2022 and what his NGO is doing to help millions of refugees and internally displaced.

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