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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.
Recession rallies G20 protesters
Mar 25, 2009 (BBC News)
ActionAid, in collaboration with other NGOs, is organizing a protest during the G-20 meeting to urge richer country leaders take advantage of the recession by tackling poverty and climate change issues.
Africa 'loses out on mining cash'
Mar 25, 2009 (BBC News )
A new ActionAid report finds that mineral-rich African states have been deprived of huge sums of royalties and taxes by mining firms.
EU 'jeopardising' fight against climate change
Mar 20, 2009 (The Guardian )
ActionAid says EU leaders are jeopardising the global fight against climate change by refusing to commit funds to the least developed countries.
Afghan confidence in Nato forces low, poll shows
Mar 19, 2009 (The Guardian)
The Afghan population is showing signs of despair as its sense of security evaporates, according to aid agencies including ActionAid.
G-20 Leaders to Debate Economic Measures in London
Mar 19, 2009 (Voice of America)
The recession is adding to hardships developing nations are facing because of a rise in food and fuel prices and climate change, ActionAid says.
Ghana: Women Lose Their Farms to Biofuel Production
Mar 16, 2009 (allAfrica.com)
Ghanaian small scale farmers, particularly women, are facing displacement from their farm lands. ActionAid Ghana, in collaboration with FoodSPAN, is implementing a two year project on biofuel production in Ghana.
Raped and killed for being a lesbian: South Africa ignores 'corrective' attacks
Mar 12, 2009 (The Guardian UK)
ActionAid condemns the culture of impunity around the tide of violence against lesbian women in South Africa, which it says is going unrecognised by the state and unpunished by the legal system.
NGOs call for renewed commitment to change traditional roles
Mar 11, 2009 (Ghana Business News)
ActionAid Ghana and Women in Law and Development in Africa are calling for a renewed commitment to change traditional roles assigned to men and women.
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