12 March 2024 // Save The Children RAMALLAH, 12 MARCH 2024 – Five months of violence, displacement, starvation and disease on top of nearly 17 years of a blockade have caused relentless mental harm to children in Gaza, Save the Children said today. Parents and caregivers told the child rights organisation that children’s capacity to even imagine a […]
23 February 2024 // UNFPA RAFAH, The Gaza Strip – “It was exhausting – we handled 78 cases in one night.” There are only five beds for deliveries at the Al-Helal Al-Emirati maternity hospital in Rafah, where midwife Samira Hosny Qeshta works. This is one of southern Gaza’s few remaining functioning hospitals. UNFPA, the United Nations sexual
Impossible choices in Gaza: “Women are giving birth prematurely because of terror” Read More »
Since 7 October 2023, more than 24,620 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, 70 per cent of whom were women or children.1&2 More than 1.9 million people — 85 per cent of the total population of Gaza — have been displaced,3 including what UN Women estimates to be nearly 1 million women and
Gender Alert: The Gendered Impact of the Crisis in Gaza Read More »
Allegations against 12 employees led major donors to suspend funding to UN Palestinian agency despite hunger crisis in Gaza
Israel yet to provide evidence to back UNRWA 7 October attack claims – UN Read More »
The Gaza war has set off a number of acrimonious and polarized debates. One of the most consequential ones for policymaking in the Middle East and internationally has focused on the fate and governance of Gaza and its population.
What defines conflict? What defines peace? On Friday, February 23, our young colleagues from Civil Peace Corps UPP engaged in a meaningful conversation with young individuals from Cluj. Under the umbrella of the “Youth Solidarity” project, they conducted the “Peacebuilding in Action” training, delving into fundamental concepts of #conflicts and #peacebuilding. They connected these concepts
Peacebuilding in Action. Real-Life Experiences Read More »
Honoring unity and resilience today, Ukrainians in Cluj-Napoca came together today to mark 2 years since the beginning of the full-scale inversion in Ukraine. Led by the heartfelt voices of Anna Shevchenko and Robert Konoplya, they stood in solidarity, remembering and honoring their homeland. Nadiya Tryfonova, a volunteer from Mykolaiv, and Tetiana Bryzitska, a psychologist
War in Ukraine Memorial Meeting Read More »
The Israeli stand-up comic Noam Shuster-Eliassi, who’s known in the Arab world too, asks people to stop ignoring the grieving on the other side
‘Even a candle is a big light in the darkness’ Read More »
The Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) was founded in 2001 as a non-governmental, non-profit, politically independent organization in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The institute has as basic principles non-violence, conflict transformation, the promotion of human rights through information and awareness raising by solutions oriented, social, political and economic analysis
