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14 May 2013
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Children left to wait while government cooks its aid numbers
The Gillard Government tonight handed down the much anticipated 2013/14 Federal Budget. For many Australians this represented a tax increase, reduced funding for services, or tightening the household budget. Hopefully it’s not a life or death situation!
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1 May 2013
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Reframing the youth bulge: from problem to solution
Leading experts in child rights will convene at a special conference in Canberra this week, to discuss one of the greatest issues facing the developing world – the dramatic increase in the youth population, or the “youth bulge”.
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| 13 March 2013 |
Plan calls on donors to re-prioritise emergency funding for young children
Plan is calling on donor governments and the humanitarian community to re-prioritise their emergency funding to support the youngest victims of emergencies.
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| 07 February 2013 |
Stop the raid on aid
Plan International in Australia's CEO, Ian Wishart, slams plans in the Federal coalition's discussion paper to divert $800m of foreign aid to the development of the top end of Australia.
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| 22 January 2013 |
Thousands of children unreachable by emergency aid in Mali
Mali is on the verge of a major humanitarian crisis, the CEO of Plan International in Australia has warned.
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| 22 January 2013 |
Girls and women 'bearing the brunt' of global recession
Girls and women are being hardest hit by the global economic recession, according to research released today.
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| 17 January 2013 |
Emergency response for children fleeing Mali conflict
The global child rights organisation Plan International is setting up an emergency response operation in central Mali to help people displaced by the conflict there.
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| 18 December 2012 |
Government blatantly redirects overseas aid to home causes
International aid agency Plan International Australia is appalled at the blatant disregard the government has shown to helping children overseas, by redirecting $375m of the aid budget to service it's asylum seeker policy.
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| 6 December 2012 |
Plan swings into action as parents go in search of missing children
Plan, who has been working in the Philippines for more than 50 years, has quickly moved into action.
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| 3 December 2012 |
Plan ready to respond to Philippines typhoon
As Typhoon Bopha, known locally as Pablo, approaches the Philippines, children's charity Plan International is preparing to respond to the needs of affected locals.
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| 17 September 2012 |
Forced marriage laws will protect Australian girls, says Plan
Hundreds of Australian girls at risk of forced marriage would be protected if proposals to make forced marriage illegal are passed into law, says global child rights agency Plan International Australia.
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| 13 June 2012 |
Manu heads to West Africa to help Stop the Hunger
Manu Feildel has boarded a plane to Niger, West Africa, to learn firsthand about the urgent food and nutrition crisis affecting the area known as the Sahel.
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| 10 April 2012 |
Millions of children at risk in West Africa food crisis
Urgent help is needed for millions of children and their families at risk of acute malnutrition and severe hunger as a food crisis spreads across West Africa.
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| 05 April 2012 |
West Africa food crisis: donate now
Plan is working to avert a humanitarian disaster in the Sahel region of West Africa, where some 13 million people are at risk from a food crisis.
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| 05 April 2012 |
Gillard must keep promise to world's poorest
Despite being one of the wealthiest countries in the world, Australia was last night ranked 13th in aid by the OECD, highlighting the need for Julia Gillard to keep her promise to increase the amount of Australian aid given to poor people around the world.
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| 02 March 2012 |
South Sudan: Plan aid workers report 'scenes of devastation'
"Scenes of devastation" have been reported in Jonglei – as villages are burned to the ground and 170,000 people are left homeless in the conflict-hit region of South Sudan.
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| 08 February 2012 |
Classic Jaguars from Around the World to Invade Australia
Classic car buffs are about to experience a once-in-a-lifetime treat, with 20 iconic Jaguars from the 1950s and 1960s embarking on a unique tour of Australia's south-east.
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| 08 February 2012 |
Plan ambassador Jamie Durie awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia
Plan in Australia congratulates Jamie Durie – one of our longest-standing ambassadors - who was honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division by the Governor General on Australia Day 2012.
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| 23 January 2012 |
South Sudan: Plan increases aid to children affected by violence
Plan is scaling up its relief food distribution in South Sudan as tribal violence continues to rage in the strife-torn Pibor County region.
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| 24 January 2012 |
Teachers to get boost from free global education resource
Australian educators have a powerful new tool in their teaching kit thanks to a free new resource from child rights organisation Plan International Australia.
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| 20 January 2012 |
Child abduction increasing in South Sudan border conflict
Plan is warning that young people are being snatched as part of ethnic clashes in Jonglei state that have displaced tens of thousands of people.
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| 11 January 2012 |
Haiti earthquake 2 years on: vulnerable should not be forgotten
Two years since the devastating earthquake, commitments made to help Haiti must be honoured.
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| 06 January 2012 |
Philippines flood: Plan is helping thousands of children
Plan is supporting the basic needs of thousands of people affected by Typhoon Washi (also known as Sendong) in the Mindanao Island of the Philippines.
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| 20 December 2011 |
UN declares International Day of the Girl
Plan is delighted at the United Nations' decision to recognise October 11 as the 'International Day of the Girl Child'.
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| 19 December 2011 |
Philippines typhoon: Plan supports thousands of children
Plan is assisting thousands of families affected by severe flooding after Typhoon Washi (also known as Sendong) caused widespread devastation in the Mindanao Island of the Philippines last Friday.
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| 02 November 2011 |
Kevin Rudd launches 2011 Because I am a Girl report
Girls around the world are fighting a losing battle for gender equality unless boys join the cause, says a major global report from Plan, launched in Australia today by the Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd.
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| 31 January 2011 |
Commonwealth leaders take historic first step to end child marriage
Child rights campaigners have welcomed a commitment by the 54 leaders of the Commonwealth to focus on efforts to end the early and forced marriage of millions of girls around the Commonwealth.
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