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S. Asia cyclone contaminates water sources
May 29, 2009 (Reuters)
Tens of thousands of cyclone survivors in India and Bangladesh desperately need clean water after the storm contaminated drinking sources with sea water, according to ActionAid.
Disease fears mount after cyclone Aila
May 29, 2009 (Reuters)
Hundreds of thousands of people are stranded with no food, water and shelter four days after cyclone Aila washed away roads and submerged villages in Bangladesh and India. ActionAid is on the ground helping with relief efforts.
Uganda: Abolish Bride Price - Activists
May 26, 2009 (The New Vision via allAfrica.com)
Women's rights activists, including ActionAid, are demanding that the bride price be outlawed in Uganda becuase the practice is a leading cause of violence against women.
Uganda: Kapchorwa Gets Health Center
May 24, 2009 (The New Vision via allAfrica.com)
The lives of over 10,000 locals, mainly Sabiny, will change for the better, following the construction of a health center n Grik village, Ngenge sub-county, Kapchorwa district that was funded by ActionAid Uganda.
Tesco 'breaking promise' to South African fruit pickers
May 15, 2009 (The Guardian)
Anti-poverty organizations, including ActionAid, have accused Tesco of breaking a pledge to improve the pay and working conditions of South African fruit pickers.
New language service for central provinces
May 13, 2009 (Voice of America)
The telephone information gate on administrative procedures has just opened a new service in the ethnic Ede language as part of a pilot project being conducted by ActionAid Vietnam to give local people more involvement in public administrative reforms.
Pakistan fighting means international aid is vital, say NGOs
May 13, 2009 (Ekklesia)
Pakistan could face one of the world’s worst conflict-driven people displacement crises and needs even more international help, warn development agencies, including ActionAid.
ActionAid urges women to fight for their rights
May 12, 2009 (Ghanaian Chronicle )
ActionAid Ghana has challenged girls in the various schools, to rise against gender disparity and violence against women, rather than allowing only government and other non-governmental organisations to carry such responsibilities.
Gambia: Govt Resolved to Strengthen Agricultural Organizations
May 6, 2009 (The Daily Observer via allAfrica.com)
The Gambia's coordinator of Agribusiness at the Department of State for Agriculture has expressed resolve to strengthen the agricultural organizations in the country. ActionAid is working in the country to empower farmers.
Lives better off with awareness about rights
May 6, 2009 (The Daily Star)
Women in Bangladesh praise ActionAid's women's rights approach.
'Hungry children do not make good learners'
Apr 28, 2009 (The Guardian)
Are loans from the IMF preventing the poorest countries from spending on children's education? ActionAid says 'yes.'
IMF and World Bank to Discuss Financing Aid for Developing Countries
Apr 20, 2009 (Voice of America)
In the lead up to the Wold Bank spring meeting, ActionAid says bigger industrialized economies, which have a larger percentage of votes on the IMF's executive board, would receive more SDRs than poorer countries.
Lesson for Africa from global economic crisis
Apr 20, 2009 (CNN)
ActionAid forecasts that Africa's income will drop by $49 billion dollars between 2007 and the end of this year.
South Africa's paradox for gays: progressive laws, persistent hate
Apr 19, 2009 (McClatchy Newspapers via the Star-Telegram)
There's a devastating paradox about homosexuality in South Africa: A country that boasts some of the most advanced gay-rights laws in the world has a population that's profoundly homophobic. ActionAid found that 66 percent of women who endured anti-gay hate crimes in the Western Cape didn't report their attacks to the police because they thought they wouldn't be taken seriously.
India digs for votes with job plan: Will it work?
Apr 13, 2009 (Reuters via the Boston Globe )
India's Congress hopes its flagship national scheme, which aims to give employment for a hundred days a year to every rural Indian without a job, will be a vote-winner. ActionAid has praised the legislation.
EU says will speed aid to poor countries
Apr 8, 2009 (Reuters)
The European Commission has unveiled plans to accelerate aid to developing countries hit hard by the economic crisis. Though some of the measures were welcomed, ActionAid said it falls short of what is needed, and does little to solve the problems poor countries.
Aid agencies issue Afghan warning
Apr 3, 2009 (BBC)
Several NGOs, including ActionAid, are warning that an increase in military deployments in Afghanistan could lead to a rise in civilian casualties.
Bangladesh plans jail threat to deter beggars
Apr 3, 2009 (The Guardian )
Bangladesh's government plans to eradicate begging from the streets of Dhaka and five regional cities during the next five years. ActionAid is calling for a formal plan to be released and will welcome it if the plan is to move people out of poverty.
Mother of five adopted kids: 'I admire Madonna'
Apr 3, 2009 (CNN )
ActionAid urges global community to use Madonna's recent adoption quagmire to examine why there are so many children living in poverty in Malawi.
London Protest Draws More Than 12,000 Before G-20
Mar 28, 2009 (Bloomberg)
More than 12,000 people marched through central London to protest the handling of the world economy as the leaders of the Group of 20 nations prepare to meet in the U.K. capital. ActionAid, along with other NGOs, are leading the charge.
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