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Dilemma of the Ghanaian rice farmer
Nov 3, 2008 (The Statesman via Modern Ghana)

A documentary which seeks to portray the economic suffering and occupational hardships that Ghanaian rice farmers go through in cultivation, harvesting and marketing of their produce, has been developed and launched by the General Agricultural Workers Union, Action Aid and other civil society organizations.

Call for greater protection of DRC civilians
Nov 2, 2008 (Reuters Alternet)

As thousands of refugees in eastern Congo go without food and shelter for yet another day, international development agency ActionAid urges the UN Security Council to strengthen its mandate to enforce peace in the region.

ActionAid suspends operations in Goma
Oct 30, 2008 (ActionAid)

ActionAid has been forced to suspend operations in Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo because of the surge in violence in recent days

Malawi Women Push for Parliamentary Positions With Help of 50:50 Program
Oct 29, 2008 (Voice of America)

As Malawi prepares for presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for next year, women have embarked on a campaign for equal access to parliamentary seats.

NGOs Call for Radical Reforms as IMF Offers New Loans
Oct 29, 2008 (IPS)

Two weeks before U.S. President George W. Bush hosts an economic summit to address the six-week-old financial crisis that has wreaked havoc on the world's capital and stock markets, a coalition of nearly 600 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from 88 countries is calling for a "fundamental and far-reaching transformation on the international financial and economic system."

Uganda: No Land for Women; the Attitude Behind Hunger
Oct 29, 2008 (The Monitor - Kampala via All Africa)

Women feed the nation, but due to cultural and conservative laws, they are denied land ownership, which is at the heart of food production.

Rural women across globe ask for land to end hunger
Oct 15, 2008 (One World)

Rural women across the globe joined today to demand agricultural land as the most tangible means to addressing poverty and hunger to mark the World Rural Women's Day today, ahead of the World Food Day as a part of ActionAid's HungerFREE campaign.

Graca Machel lauds Mozambican demonstrators
Oct 15, 2008 (International Herald Tribune)

Rural Mozambican women marching to demand land, education and jobs have received support from one of the country's most prominent citizens.

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.