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Comments on the Prime Minister’s Pacific ‘Step-Up’ Announcements
08 Nov, 2018
*Marc Purcell, CEO of the Australian Council for International Development:* “The frank admission by the Prime Minister that ‘too often’ we have taken our Pacific neighbours...
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“Sickened by the political games”, Aid NGOs Resolve to get #KidsOffNauru
30 Oct, 2018
Over 120 Australian aid and development NGOs have united behind a new resolution at their annual conference to up-the-ante in campaigning to get #KidsOffNauru in the face of political stagnation....
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Aid NGO-Sector Puts Spotlight on Safeguarding at Annual Conference
30 Oct, 2018
Members of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) – the peak-body for Australian international development NGOs – have adopted a series of sector-wide safeguarding...
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ACFID welcomes Labor’s Pacific focus
29 Oct, 2018
Responding to excerpts from a speech by Opposition Leader, Bill Shorten, at the Lowy Institute on Monday afternoon, CEO of the Australian Council for International Development, Marc Purcell said...
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Behrouz Boochani Receives Sir Ronald Wilson Human Rights Award
29 Oct, 2018
The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) has awarded the Sir Ronald Wilson Human Rights Award to journalist and Iranian refugee, Behrouz Boochani, who is detained on Manus...
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Welcome Sanctions on Myanmar's Abusive Military Officers
23 Oct, 2018
The decision from Australia’s Foreign Minister, Marise Payne, to impose targeted financial sanctions and travel bans against five Myanmar military officers responsible for human rights violations...
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New clear-cut commitment on safeguarding of people vulnerable to sexual exploitation for Australian Aid NGOs
17 Oct, 2018
In the first of two reviews commissioned by the peak-body of Australia’s aid and international NGOs, an external review of the peak-body’s Code of Conduct – initiated following UK reports of...
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Australian NGOs Respond to Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami
03 Oct, 2018
As the scale of the earthquake and tsunami disaster becomes clearer in Sulawesi, 18 Australian NGO-members of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), together with their...
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No Reduction in Aid Budget Under Her Watch, Says Assistant Minister
26 Sep, 2018
The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) – Australia’s peak-body for aid NGOs – has welcomed comments by the Assistant Minister for International Development and the Pacific,...
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"If genocide isn’t cause for decisive action, what is?” – Australian Government urged to act on Myanmar atrocities at UN
19 Sep, 2018
The Australian Government should immediately end its engagement with Myanmar’s military and impose sanctions on abusive military generals, the Human Rights Law Centre and the Australian Council...