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Deborah Underdown

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Darren Vaughan

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Hannah Myerson

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Gabriele Ruberto

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Lucy Bloxham

Senior Digital Communications Officer

Direct line: 0207801 1888

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Sally McCormack

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Latest press releases

Concern teams are distributing COVID19 leaflets in Bangladesh. Photo: Md. Mohidul Hasan/ Concern Worldwide

Press release6 April 2020

Global response rapidly needed to assist world’s poorest countries to battle COVID-19

Humanitarian aid organisation Concern Worldwide today called on the international community to urgently assist the world’s poorest countries as they tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.

Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at his global town hall meeting with United Nations staff members. Photo: UN Media

Press release

24 March 2020

Concern welcomes UN Secretary General's Appeal for Global Ceasefire

Concern welcomes the urgent appeal by the UN Secretary General for an immediate global ceasefire by all warring parties to enable the world tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

Concern is preparing to respond to the spread of COVID-19. Photo: Concern Worldwide/KieranMcConville

Press release

20 March 2020

Concern Worldwide teams ready to respond to spread of COVID-19 in world’s most fragile countries

Concern Worldwide teams are preparing to assist communities in some of the world’s poorest countries to battle COVID-19, amid growing fears of the substantial human impact the arrival of the virus could have as it continues to spread in Africa and Asia.

Press release

12 March 2020

Normalising the extreme: why what happens in Syria still matters

Nine years on and the war still rages.

Are we numb to the tragedy that is Syria? As the intensity of fighting and human suffering worsens again in Idlib, Concern CEO Dominic MacSorley reflects on a deafening international silence.

A farmer's son raises his arms as he is surrounded by desert locusts while trying to chase them away from his crops, in Katitika village, Kitui county, Kenya. Credit: Ben Curtis/AP/Shutterstock

Press release

25 February 2020

Concern teams to assist communities impacted by locust swarms

Concern's teams on the ground in east Africa are gearing up to assist communities whose crops have been destroyed and whose pasturelands have been lost as a result of massive swarms of locusts.

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Global response rapidly needed to assist world’s poorest countries to battle COVID-19

Concern welcomes UN Secretary General's Appeal for Global Ceasefire

Concern Worldwide teams ready to respond to spread of COVID-19 in world’s most fragile countries

Normalising the extreme: why what happens in Syria still matters

Concern teams to assist communities impacted by locust swarms

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