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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.

Uganda: The Wretched Women of the Aids Struggle
Aug 4, 2008 (The Monitor via AllAfrica)

Ms Ann Asokot, of Gogonyo village in Pallisa District thought that by revealing her HIV status to her husband, she would be supported. Little did she know that this was the beginning of a violent relationship and stigma. ActionAid supports members of the National Community of Women Living with HIV /Aids to empower victims of violence to claim and demand for their rights.

Indian Supreme Court reserves judgement on Vedanta mining
Jul 30, 2008 (Reuters)

Britain's Vedanta Resources Plc agreed on Friday to pay compensation to tribal people displaced by a planned bauxite mine in Orissa, as the Supreme Court concluded hearings and reserved judgement.

Politics of Prevention: A Global Crisis in AIDS and Education

Preventing HIV has become so political that young people are being denied their right to life saving education, according to the Politics of Prevention, a controversial new book to be launched at the 17th Global AIDS conference in Mexico, August 4th-8th 2008

New Book says Tens of Millions of Young People Face AIDS Risk Due to Lack of Sex Education
Jul 28, 2008 (Voice of America)

At the conference, the anti-poverty agency ActionAid is releasing a new book entitled: Politics of Prevention – A Global Crisis in AIDS and Education. It says tens of millions of young people are at risk due to a lack of comprehensive sex education.

Mandela's 'Elders' call for solutions to food crisis
Jul 17, 2008 (USA Today)

Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan and other members of Nelson Mandela's global crisis task force with ActionAid turned their attention to world hunger on Wednesday, focusing on soaring food prices.

Liberia: Government Response to HIV Unacceptable - ActionAid
Jul 11, 2008 (The News - Monrovia via All Africa)

The Liberian Government has been challenged to seek more acceptable means of responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the country. In a statement issued early this week at the start of a 10-day rights-based training on HIV/AIDS programming at Cuttington University, ActionAid Liberia Country Representative Ernest Gaie, said the HIV situation in the country has a 'woman face' and little is being done to address it.

G8 Promises Help for African Agriculture
Jul 8, 2008 (Voice of America)

Leaders from the world's largest industrial nations are promising more food aid and agricultural assistance for Africa to help ease the impact of rising food costs.

G8 Again Betraying Africa, ActionAid Says
Jul 7, 2008 (ActionAid)

As the G8 leaders meet African heads of state today (Monday), ActionAid voices fears that smallholder farmers who provide the backbone of African food production are being ignored once again.

G8 Accused of Backtracking on Promises to Africa
Jul 3, 2008 (Voice Of America)

The G8 summit opens next week in Hokkaido, Japan. The meeting brings together the leaders from the United States, Japan, Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Britain and Canada, and comes amid concerns over soaring food prices and shortages and global warming. One of the groups following the G8 developments is the humanitarian organization ActionAid.

ActionAid Rwanda Program Scoops Top UN Award
Jul 2, 2008 (The New Times - Rwanda via AllAfrica)

Ubudehe, a programme under the Ministry of Local Government (MINALOC) jointly funded by the Rwandan government and the European Union, last week received a United Nations trophy as the best managed and implemented development programme.

Doha talks look set to fail - and that's the good news
Jul 2, 2008 (The Guardian)

There will be intensive efforts at the World Trade Organisation this month to try to conclude the Doha round of trade talks that were launched in Qatar in November 2001. Pascal Lamy, the WTO director-general, wants about 35 trade ministers to meet next month to draft a deal. Chances seem virtually zero - but no tears should be shed.

IMF issues oil and food warning
Jul 1, 2008 (Al Jazeera and agencies)

The International Monetary Fund has warned that rocketing oil and food prices could worsen poverty. Many poor and developing countries will have to adjust their economic policies in response to soaring commodity prices, according to an IMF report issued on Tuesday.