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Culture Night: Celebrating Afghanistan and campaigning to #EndGenderApartheid
Our Culture Night was a warm, joyful and uplifting evening of Afghan culture, storytelling, art, food, fashion, conversation and dancing — but it was also an evening of solidarity and campaigning for the rights of Afghan women and girls. We were delighted to bring...
Where Do I Start: Thinking about international volunteering? Interested in solidarity and being active for change?
What does it mean to volunteer internationally in a way that supports global justice and solidarity? Comhlámh recently hosted a lunchtime webinar introducing ‘Where do I Start?’, our free, self-guided online course for anyone interested in volunteering and being...
Who Gets to Decide What Justice Looks Like?
“The money moves, but the decision-making doesn’t. The resources move, but the expertise is still assumed to sit somewhere else. The language changes, but the relationship doesn’t.” In her latest reflection, Bronwyn April asks us to look beyond the language of climate...
Reflections on the End Orphanage Volunteering campaign
"Like most people, I was under the impression that any volunteering is good volunteering, and that volunteering in an orphanage abroad is an obviously good thing to do. But it is not!!! The evidence says otherwise. More than 80% of children in orphanages worldwide...
Where Do I Start? Free online lunchtime workshop
Thinking about international volunteering? Interested in solidarity and being active for change? Join Comhlámh for a lunchtime webinar where we’ll introduce our free, self-guided online course, Where do I Start? This session is an opportunity to learn more about the...
Farewell and Thankyou to Elena Garcia
After more than 20 years with Comhlámh, we are saying a very fond farewell to Elena Garcia, our Finance Manager and a much-loved member of the Comhlámh community. For more than two decades, Elena has brought an extraordinary depth of knowledge, experience and...
Comhlámh Justice for Palestine Film Screening – “Women in Struggle”
On September 15, Comhlámh Justice for Palestine is hosting a public screening of Women in Struggle, followed by a discussion on Palestinian women’s experiences of imprisonment, resistance and life after release. Directed by Palestinian filmmaker Buthina Canaan Khoury,...
Join us at Culture Night 2026
Ireland Says Welcome Group and Comhlámh are delighted to invite you to our celebration of Culture Night 2026, from 6–9 pm on Friday, 18 September, at Comhlámh offices at 12 Parliament Street, Dublin 2. We invite you to experience a captivating and heart-warming...
Storytelling: Resistance, Healing and Identity
Comhlámh is delighted to invite you to an evening with Talha AlAli, Palestinian psychotherapist, human rights advocate, and founder of Decolonised Minds. Drawing on his recently published book, Decolonised Minds: When Radical Becomes Rational, Talha will explore the...
Making Space for Difficult Knowledge: Reflections on Solidarity Volunteering in Times of Crisis
"We all exist in contradiction. We are not outside the systems we critique. We are formed by them, funded through them, educated by them and often made legible through them. In the world of international volunteering, this contradiction is not abstract. It is present...
Holding the Work: Creating Reflective Spaces for People Working & Volunteering in Migration and Community, Social and International Development
In recent months, Comhlámh has begun to bring our global citizenship education thinking and methodologies to new groups across Ireland. This is responding to the emerging challenges and increasingly complex and demanding realities that people working and volunteering...
Job Vacancy: Finance Technician Administrator
Job Title: Finance Technician Administrator Location: 12 Parliament Street Reports to: CEO Type of Contract: Part-Time (2 days per week) Permanent Probation: 6 Months Salary (5-day basis): €28,988 - €41,930 full time equivalent plus 3 long service increments to a...
Call for Tender Request for Consultancy Services: Events and Public Engagement Support
Comhlámh is seeking to engage a consultant for an eight-month period to support the coordination, delivery and promotion of a programme of events, workshops and public engagement activities taking place between September 2026 and April 2027. Grounded in Comhlámh’s...
Comhlámh Annual Report 2025 – 50th Anniversary
Dear Members and Supporters of Comhlámh, As we reflect on 2025, I am deeply grateful to all of you, members, volunteers, staff, and partners, who have stood with us in solidarity and learning. This year marked our 50th anniversary, a milestone that gave us space to...
Reflecting on How We Measure Volunteering: Insights from the 2026 State of the World’s Volunteering Report
On 7 July, Comhlámh was delighted to co-host a hybrid policy dialogue on the 2026 State of the World’s Volunteering Report - https://www.unv.org/swvr - alongside the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, UCD Volunteers Overseas (UCDVO) and Northumbria University....
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