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ActionAid Helps Open Nigerian Budgetary Process to Public Scrutiny
Oct 14, 2008 (VOA)

Development experts say corruption has kept Nigerians poor even though the country has abundant mineral and human resources. But ActionAid says it is working to curb the problem. One way is by improving public support for measures to fight corruption, like a recent protest in the capital, Abuja.

Poor Sidelined in Rush to Contain Financial Crisis
Oct 14, 2008 (Inter Press Service)

The worst market crisis since the 1930s has dominated financial leaders' talks here, stoking misgivings that the world's poor are being overlooked.

Sierra Leone: ActionAid holds Hunger Free Women Charter
Oct 13, 2008 (Concord Times: Freetown via All Africa)

ActionAid Sierra Leone has conducted a two-day HungerFREE women charter orientation meeting at the young women Christian association hall in Freetown.

Why does IMF want to ratchet up pressure on poor?
Oct 11, 2008 (Financial Times)

ActionAid Senior Policy Analyst Rick Rowden letter published in The Financial Times regarding unnecessarily restrictive IMF policy on low-income countries

Bail Out the Hungry, demands ActionAid at World Bank

As developed economies scramble to stabilize their financial markets through more vigorous regulation, the international anti-poverty agency ActionAid is urging leaders at a World Bank summit in Washington on Oct. 11-13 to take action to save the lives of people who are dying because of the world food crisis, which has catapulted another 100 million people into the ranks of the hungry. Nearly one billion people – a sixth of the world’s population - now face devastating hunger.

Shedding indignity in India
Oct 6, 2008 (MeriNews)

A marriage at 16 ended her schooling. By 18 she was carrying human excreta, collected from dry toilets; detesting it each day, yet doing it, as women in her community had done for generations. Fortunately, those days are behind her now.

Return to Kabul, in a cordon of fear
Sep 25, 2008 (Reuters)

Northern India Faces More Rain as Monsoon Toll Reaches 2,400
Sep 23, 2008 (Bloomberg News)

India's northern states, where more than 10 million people have been affected by flooding, will be hit by more downpours as the national death toll since the onset of monsoon rains in June rose to more than 2,400.

EU aid study finds goals to halve global poverty have to be changed
Sep 19, 2008 (Los Angeles Times)

A food crisis and economic turmoil are threatening to scuttle U.N. goals to halve extreme poverty around the world by 2015, according to an EU report released Friday.

Rwanda: African Gender Activists Applaud Female Dominated Parliament
Sep 18, 2008 (The New Times Kigali via All Africa)

The just ended parliamentary elections held in Rwanda have dealt patriarchy a heavy blow. Rwandan women now dominate the legislative assembly with a historic figure of 56.25 percent.

Aid workers warn Haiti floods could trigger unrest
Sep 17, 2008 (Reuters AlterNet)

Up to 3 million people risk starvation in Haiti following back-to-back storms that have wiped out large swathes of agriculture, an aid agency has warned.

ActionAid Nigeria calls for Government to Invest in Adult Literacy
Sep 16, 2008 (This Day Lagos via All Africa)

The Federal Government and other levels of government in the country, have been called upon to invest in adult literacy, as a boon to skills acquisition and rapid development. The call was made by ActionAid Nigeria, an international non governmental anti-poverty agency, which noted with dismay the total neglect of adult literacy programmes by different levels of government in Nigeria.

ActionAid donates sewing machines to graduates at Breman Asikuma
Sep 15, 2008 (Modern Ghana via All Africa)

ActionAid International, a non-governmental organization (NGO) has presented sewing machine each to seven graduates of Christian Vocational Center, at Breman Asikuma in the Central Region.

Haiti city hit by storms needs clean water, food
Sep 12, 2008 (Reuters)

Floods that devastated a Haitian city and killed hundreds threaten to trigger a health crisis and fresh outbreaks of food riots in the impoverished Caribbean country, government officials and aid workers say. "In the next two months, the situation will become more and more acute," ActionAid country director Raphael Yves Pierre said. "The risk of food riots is very imminent."

Indian Floodwaters Recede; Threat of Disease Remains
Sep 9, 2008 (Bloomberg News)

ActionAid continues relief efforts to some of the most rural areas affected by flooding.

RIGHTS: Fighting the 'War on Terror'
Sep 8, 2008 (IPS)

Aid Talks Fail to Deliver for the World's Poor
Sep 5, 2008 (All Africa)

Three million displaced by south India floods
Sep 1, 2008 (Irish Times)

Pakistan: Home-based women workers to launch union
Aug 19, 2008 (The International News: Pakistan)

To claim and advocate for their rights more effectively, home-based women workers plan to launch a registered union at the national level on August 22. Under the name of ‘Home-based Aurat Workers Union Pakistan (HBAWUP)’, the union will be the first of its kind in the country. The announcement in this regard was made at a press conference organised at the ActionAid Pakistan office.