Professor Ray Murphy, former UN Peacekeeper and Programme Director of our LLM in Peace Operations, Humanitarian Law and Conflict featured on Al Jazeera English last week regarding Ireland's reaction and stance to war on #Gaza. Watch the full clip at: youtu.be/X7zxFc2zGGE Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

Interesting article about the plight of IDPs in western Oromia.

Local Statement on #Ethiopia Humanitarian situation by 17 countries & organisations ahead of Geneva Humanitarian Conference next week. Partners remain committed to help suffering populations of Ethiopia, but need a real partnership with GoE facilitating aid.

At the 🇬🇧 co-hosted pledging event we call on partners to step up support to address the humanitarian crisis in 🇪🇹. 🇬🇧 continues to work with UNICEF Ethiopia WFP Ethiopia ICRC Ethiopian Red Cross Society and all partners to get life-saving assistance to those who need it most.

World Central Kitchen attack and the killing of aid workers mailchi.mp/ihsa/can-weste…

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I just returned from academic fieldwork in Seba-Care IDPs site. The IDPs live in a deplorable condition with meager humanitarian support.They are living for 3yrs in tents originally meant for few months. It is critical that they obtain solutions before z start of the rainy season

Antisemitism is a disgusting ideology that has resulted in the deaths of many millions. That does not negate the unprecedented actions of Netanyahu's right-wing & racist government. It is not antisemitic to demand an end to the humanitarian disaster in Gaza.

With great sadness, we confirm that two of our colleagues were killed by gunmen today in South Darfur, Sudan. Three other were injured. icrc.org/en/document/su…

When conflict ends, #IDPs often return to their street addresses and not to their homes, as the conflict has already destroyed their houses. They should've ample opportunity to engage in transitional justice and national dialogue mechanisms that Ethiopia has started to implement.

🇸🇪, through Hans Henric Lundquist, has signed a new agreement 🤝 with IGAD Secretariat to support solutions for forcibly displaced and refugees in the region. 🇸🇪 is a firm supporter of closer collaboration and coordination among IGAD member states.

#US Envoy to discuss implementation of peace deal, violence in #Amhara and #Oromia during Ethiopia visit The U.S. State Department announced that Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Mike Hammer will travel to #Ethiopia as part of a regional tour from May 8 to May 19. In

📢 #CallForAbstracts! 📢 Want to present at the The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre's 2024 conference ‘#HumanitarianStudies: Today & Tomorrow’? Send your title and a brief abstract before 15 June to [email protected] 📅 Friday, 13 Sep 2024 🔗Register to attend: lnkd.in/exSXXsAj

Press Statement on the Current Situation in the Horn of Africa

Egypt is joining the peacekeeping mission in Somalia because of its rivalry with Ethiopia, not because of a new-found desire to fight al-Shabaab. Such manipulation of a peacekeeping operation sets a bad precedent, and is surely not what the operation's international donors wish.

"𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲. To preventing conflict in the first place. To providing early warning signals when conflict is likely to erupt." - Volker Türk #HRC57 United Nations Human Rights Council | 📍#HRC57

#Ethiopia: National Committee announces ‘cessation of hostilities’ between #Afar, #Somali regions The National Committee, established to address the conflict between the Afar and Somali regions, announced a "cessation of hostilities" on 13 September, 2024. This declaration

#Ethiopia: New report forecasts #Addis_Abeba among key African urban hotspots by 2035 A new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit predicts that Addis Abeba will emerge as a key urban hotspot in Africa by 2035. Joining Addis Abeba on the list of predicted hotspots are

🔎 The Humanitarian Observatory in Ethiopia will be hosting a webinar on the 'Governance of Durable Solutions to #InternalDisplacement in #Ethiopia: The Invisible and Precariat Citizens'. 📍 Online [in English] 🔗 Zoom link details: edu.nl/hxeth #HumanitarianStudies

Fascinating discussions underway at the Maynooth IDP Law and Policy workshop. Thanks to ⁦MU Social Science Institute⁩ ⁦MU School of Law & Criminology⁩ ⁦Refugee Law Initiative⁩ for your support !