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Humanitarian Response in Congo Under Strain
Nov 14, 2008
ActionAid is preparing to ramp up its support to scores of people in the Congo fleeing ongoing violence. The number of displaced people continues to soar with 60,000 arriving at one camp alone last week. The influx has places a heavy burden on humanitarian aid, ActionAid International warns.
Malawi Journal: Community Adaptation to Climate Change
Sep 29, 2008
ActionAid USA's Ilana Solomon traveled to Malawi to learn more about how local people are responding to climate change. She met with women who are changing their communities and transforming their lives. She discusses how their efforts relate to our advocacy for new international funds for climate adaptation.
Picking up the Pieces in Haiti after Gustav, Hanna and Ike
Sep 10, 2008
Hurricanes Gustav and Hanna struck Haiti within a week of each other,and were quickly followed by Hurricane Ike, bringing floods and devastation to the already struggling country. ActionAid is there, providing food, water, shelter and emergency medical supplies while working to build the capacity of communities across Haiti to safeguard their well-being during future storms.
ActionAid in UN Dialogue on the Right to Food
Sep 6, 2008
The food crisis is not just the result of a lack of food production or even high food prices. It is about people's inability to access the food they need. On Friday August 29, ActionAid's Karen Hansen-Kuhn joined Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and other NGO partners to discuss a human rights approach to ending the food crisis.
ActionAid Emergency Response to Floods in Bihar, Inda
Sep 3, 2008
Millions of people have been displaced and an estimated 2,000 killed by shock flooding in Bihar in northern India. ActionAid is on the ground, providing immediate relief with fresh water, food, medical care and shelter.
Providing Comfort in Conflict: ActionAid Provides Food and Medicine in Kashmir
Sep 2, 2008
ActionAid is the only nongovernmental agency responding to the current humanitarian crisis in Kashmir. We are providing food and medicine in Srinagar.
Climate Change Makes Tough Choices for Kenyans
Aug 4, 2008
The Pokot community in Tangulbei, Kenya hopes for rain. It has not rained there for two years. Their crops wither and their livestock languish in the drought. ActionAid provides relief to the region by bringing in water and food and pushes for more access for the people of Pokot to the resources they need to adapt to their increasingly arid environment.
Elders join ActionAid’s HungerFREE campaign to demand urgent action on global food crisis
Jul 18, 2008
Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson and other Elders joined forces with ActionAid’s HungerFREE campaign July 16th to continue the fight against the global food crisis.
ActionAid and Naomi Klein
Jul 7, 2008
ActionAid supporter and author, Naomi Klein discussed her international best-selling book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism to a packed house with ActionAid Thursday, July 10th at Busboys and Poets.
ActionAid Makes Recommendations to UN Climate Adaptation Fund
Jun 16, 2008
Developing countries need substantial new resources for adaptation to enable them to cope with the current impacts of climate change. These resources, estimated at upwards of US $67 billion a year, must come from rich countries, which are largely responsible for creating climate change. A new fund for adaptation was created at the global climate change negotiations in Bali last December. ActionAid is working to ensure that this fund has the policies and structures in place to be just, equitable, and effective.
Climate Equity Campaign Speakers Tour
May 30, 2008
Climate change threatens countries across the globe with droughts, flooding, and famine. Bold and immediate US leadership could help reduce worst impacts. ActionAid invites you to meet civil-society leaders from Nigeria and Indonesia to learn why the next US president must take action on climate change.
China Earthquake Response Update: ActionAid continues relief to remote provinces
May 19, 2008
While all eyes were on the Olympics in Beijing, ActionAid continued our efforts months after the devastating earthquake that struck China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008. We want to share some of our ongoing efforts and offer you some inside perspective from the diary of an ActionAid relief worker in China.
Cyclone Nargis: Emergency in Myanmar
May 6, 2008
Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar on Saturday, May 3rd with wind speeds reaching 120mph bringing a sea surge that smashed through towns and villages. The official death toll now, May 24th, stands at 77,738 with 55,917 missing. It is now estimated that 2.4 million people are severely affected. ActionAid is currently working in the worst affected area of Irrawaddy, serving 432 villages providing food, shelter, medicine, cash for work and agricultural assistance along with our local partners KDN, PACT, Myanmar Egress and MDF, some of the largest national NGO's in Myanmar.
Rising Food Prices: Time to Fix a Broken Global Food System
May 2, 2008
According to the United Nations, rising food prices threaten to plunge 100 million more people into hunger. This global food crisis is the direct result of decades of misguided agricultural policies that force poor countries to import food instead of producing it themselves. Only a major overhaul of those policies can address the root causes of this problem. Join with ActionAid to demand action to cushion the immediate impact on hungry people and insist on policy reforms to avoid similar crises in the future.
Voices from the South Raise Decibel Levels on IMF Policy: Three African Women Visit Capitol Hill to Share Their Story
Mar 17, 2008
Jam-packed classrooms with 160 students and one teacher. Communities without a single doctor or clinic for hundred of miles. While it may be hard to imagine for some, or merely represent staggering statistics for others, this is the daily reality for persons in dozens of African nations. ActionAid is bringing these realities to the US Congress and calling for changes to International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies.
Adaptation Funding
Mar 17, 2008
Climate Change, without question, is one of the most critical global challenges of this century. If we don’t take action now, millions of people will be affected by food shortages and climate-related disasters. ActionAid’s rights-based approach and more than three decades of experience have positioned us to take a strong lead in responding to this challenge. We ask you to join us in this fight.
Healthcare for Women in Cambodia
Mar 17, 2008
Only five percent of Cambodia’s rural women have access to any type of medical care. The limited healthcare facilities available frequently run out of the critical medical supplies. ActionAid is providing basic access to healthcare for women.
Overview: International Policy
Mar 17, 2008
About half of the all money spent to end poverty, hunger and HIV & AIDS never reaches the people it was intended to benefit. ActionAid works with communities and movements in poor countries to hold their governments accountable for the impacts of their economic policies and brings the voices and concerns of our partners into the international policy debates.
