Karol Balfe
@karolbalfe.bsky.social
Women's rights / Human Rights/ Climate and economic justice. CEO ActionAid Ireland, all views my own
For thousands of women, big sporting events can bring fear and intimidation, rather than celebration. Read @karolbalfe.bsky.social powerful article in the Journal.ie www.thejournal.ie/readme/world...
The World Cup and domestic violence: When the final whistle of a match brings fear
Major football tournaments unite millions in celebration, but they can also coincide with a rise in violence against women behind closed doors, writes Karol Balfe.
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The fuel price crisis has exposed something many of us already feel: our energy system is fragile, unequal, and overly dependent on fossil fuels. Read @karolbalfe.bsky.social opinion piece in today's @thejournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/readme/fuel-... #FossilFuel #SantaMarta
Fail to prepare: Recent fuel protests have exposed Ireland’s lack of future climate planning
In the wake of protests that gripped the country, a global summit offers a chance to break free from oil and gas dependency, if Ireland is willing to act.
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The Iranian Red Crescent has said the death toll from a strike on a school in southern Iran has risen to 108, following a wave of attacks launched by the United States and Israel against the Islamic republic jrnl.ie/6970999
Death toll from US-Israeli strike that hit girls' school rises to 108, Iran Red Crescent says
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said “this barbaric act is another black page in the record of countless crimes committed by the aggressors”.
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Brilliant article @karolbalfe.bsky.social 'If Ireland truly believes in a multilateral world governed by law rather than force, then it must demand more not only from Israel, but from our allies and from itself.' www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Karol Balfe: A multilateral world is worth fighting for, it must start with justice for Palestine
Ceasefires that don’t provide safety and a mechanism to rebuild a shattered land are not steps toward peace
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Multilateralism is worth fighting for but it must start with justice for Palestine. My opinion piece @actionaidie.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Karol Balfe: A multilateral world is worth fighting for, it must start with justice for Palestine
Ceasefires that don’t provide safety and a mechanism to rebuild a shattered land are not steps toward peace
irishexaminer.com
Fantastic piece by @jenniestephens.bsky.social on the need to re examine corporate capture in Ireland www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Time to challenge corporate power in Ireland
Greta Thunberg and Bohemian Football Club together stress need to put communities before companies
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Ireland and the EU should be actively shouting about US breaches of international law right now - failure to do so contributes to normalisation of a new era of colonial gangsterism.
Inside the West Bank: Life under Israeli occupation is cruel and violent. My op ed today jrnl.ie/6911841
Inside the West Bank: Life under Israeli occupation is cruel and violent
Karol Balfe shares the stories of two women living in the West Bank and writes that Ireland needs to honour its commitment to pass the Occupied Territories Bill.
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Winter in Gaza is extremely tough. My colleague Alaa shares his experience from Deir-el-Balah with @rteradio1.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Winter in Gaza
Alla Abu Samura, Action Aid's Emergency Response Manager for Gaza, on the current situation in Gaza as families face winter weather.
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‘Catch remaining targets’: Leaked Teneo files pull back curtain on corporate lobbying...with no real pushback from Ireland www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
‘Catch remaining targets’: Leaked Teneo files pull back curtain on corporate lobbying
Internal Teneo documents reveal exactly how oil firms and other big multinationals pushed to dilute EU supply chain rules
irishtimes.com
COP30 is over, as the dust settles, we need to ensure that justice is at the heart of our approach @actionaidie.bsky.social My op ed today
Fossil fuels grabbed the spotlight at #COP30, while the conditions to phase them out – rich countries moving first and backing others – were sidelined. That’s how climate ambition is turned against those who did least to cause the crisis, and the Paris Agreement is weakened.
Thanks to @karolbalfe.bsky.social for this excellent overview of the 'good, bad & the ugly' of week 2 at COP30 via @thejournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/readme/cop30...
Analysis: We're halfway through COP30. Here's the good, the bad and the ugly so far
Negotiators should put the needs of people who are most affected by the climate crisis at the centre of their decisions, writes Karol Balfe.
thejournal.ie
Killed, while starving and desperate for aid...a new low in Israel's genocidal campaign on Gaza www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Aid is being utterly weaponised, and the result is chaos
Israel has sunk to a new low in Gaza, writes Karol Balfe, CEO of ActionAid Ireland
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Complete and open disregard for international law. No sanctions.
Irish Examiner@irishexaminer.bsky.social · last yr.
“Imagine trying to move with four children or an elderly parent in the middle of the night, with no transport and nowhere to go. People are so exhausted, many would rather face death than flee again.” - Jim Clarken, Oxfam Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41... @oxfamireland.bsky.social
Displacement orders are 'entirely erasing Gaza', Oxfam warns
Since the breaking of the ceasefire, Israel has issued 30 forced displacement orders and are pushing people into isolated areas
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Today @trocaire.bsky.social is launching a new climate justice campaign with a powerful report: ‘Fuelling Injustice: Ireland’s fossil fuel problem’ exposes how we’re enabling climate harm & calls on @micheal-martin.bsky.social’s Gov to do its fair share to drive a fast, funded, fossil-fuel phase out
Just another Friday in the West Bank as the West utters mild criticism but keeps the weapons and money flowing.
Counter-terrorism legislation, a most flexible friend of a state that fails miserably to counter or even acknowledge impunity on the part of another state whose genocide and war crimes it has enabled:
Seán Moncrieff@seanmoncrieff.bsky.social · last yr.'Terrorism' www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...
🔴Listen back to our CEO @karolbalfe.bsky.social speaking on @todayfm.bsky.social about the devastating reality the people of #Gaza are enduring. 📻https://link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGXggjtG0Hzh
"Dystopia is the living reality in #Gaza today. For its beleaguered #population, it feels like the world is ending, over and over again." In the @independent.ie, our CEO @karolbalfe.bsky.social, sheds light on the ongoing struggle faced by Gaza’s population. www.independent.ie/opinion/karo...
I have never seen a situation so dismal that Tony Blair couldn't make it worse.
If you wonder why men *obsessed* with the United States having more children are kidnapping children and sending them to other countries, those children were the incorrect color.
Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminism. Wrote about the Gender Brexiteers.
Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminism
Where LGBTQ+ rights are bolstered, so too are women’s rights, and where they collapse, so too does authentic feminism
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Kneecap Manager asks the question no one ever answers: “At what point do we stop amplifying messages that are inaccurate?”
Kneecap@kneecapceol.bsky.social · 2y ago
