Roche has provided advice and suggestions to the UN Needs Assessment Mission and has made several submissions on how NGOs could best be helped in their attempts to deliver humanitarian aid to the most affected areas in Belarus, Ukraine and western Russia. She was also invited by the UNDP to sit on their organising committee, and act as the keynote speaker at the International Chernobyl Conference which was held in Minsk in April to mark the 20th Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
In an unprecedented move, the Belarusian UN delegation provided her with their speaking time at the General Assembly discussion on Chernobyl in recognition of the international role Ireland and Chernobyl Children International has played in helping the victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe. On 8 December , as a direct result of her address, the United Nations ratified the "Persistent Legacy of Chernobyl disaster", a symbolic element of which is the implementation of the "International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day".
Roche was awarded the European Woman Laureate Award following the release of the documentary film 'Black Wind, White Land' which highlighted the Chernobyl children's suffering.
In the same year she received the title of the Republic's Person of the Year. In , Roche received Tipperary International Peace Award, described as "Ireland's outstanding award for humanitarian work.
In , Roche was awarded an honorary doctor of law degree by the University of Alberta, Canada. Since then, Chernobyl Children International has saved the lives of thousands of children born with congenital heart defects. In , Roche was named a World of Children Alumni Award Honoree, for the "incredible impact she continues to have in the lives of the children of the Chernobyl region".
Roche stood for the office of President of Ireland as a coalition candidate for the Labour Party, Democratic Left and the Green Party at the presidential election. Home People Adi Roche Biography. Adi Roche Biography. We update our database from time to time. Adi Roche was born in Clonmel on July 11, As of Adi Roche is 64 years old years old.
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Entitled Black Wind, White Land, the exhibition was a month-long, cross-cultural event featuring the works of artists depicting the suffering caused by the accident. In , Roche received Tipperary International Peace Award, described as "Ireland's outstanding award for humanitarian work. Roche stood for the office of President of Ireland as a coalition candidate for the Labour Party, Democratic Left and the Green Party at the presidential election.
The organisation is an international development, medical, and humanitarian one that works with children and families who continue to be affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of She has focused on the relief of suffering experienced by children in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Mental health and disability development: Since there has been a marked increase in children being born with mental and physical disabilities.
CCI has pioneered the Human Rights of people incarcerated in institutional care. This is at the very heart of the CCI mission. Adi Patricia Roche born 11 July is an Irish activist, anti-nuclear advocate, campaigner for peace, humanitarian aid and education.
Adi Roche was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary in After finishing secondary school she went to work for Aer Lingus.
She left in , to work full-time as a volunteer for the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. She devised a Peace Education Programme and delivered it in over fifty schools throughout Ireland.
In , she became the first Irish woman elected to the board of directors of the International Peace Bureau at the United Nations in Geneva.
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