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International Policy

  • Jan 9, 2010 The Agony of Female Circumcision
    Hanna Abera is seven. Her mother and grandmother wanted to slice off part of her genitals. But she was saved by an extraordinarily brave intervention from her aunt after ActionAid launched a program of education on the consequences of female circumcision.
  • Jan 7, 2010 SOUTH ASIA: Harness Untapped Renewable Energy Sources -- Experts
    With its vast renewable energy potential, South Asia can lead the world in achieving energy security. But sources within the region said it needs technological and financial support from the developed countries before it can tap its rich energy resources
  • Dec 17, 2009 Africans Welcome US Pledge to Help with Environment Fund
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States is prepared to work with other countries to fund $100 billion a year by 2020 to address climate change needs of developing countries. African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture Rhoda Tumusiime said Clinton's comments are a positive step.
  • Dec 11, 2009 New climate draft has gaping holes at UN talks
    Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them — or at least cut them in half — by 2050 under a draft text circulated Friday at the U.N. climate talks.
  • Dec 9, 2009 Rich vs. poor clash at Copenhagen over money
    Negotiators on Wednesday worked to bridge the chasm between rich and poor countries over how to share the burden of fighting climate change, and a top U.S. envoy was to highlight the Obama administration's efforts to curb greenhouse emissions.

Food Rights

  • Dec 17, 2009 Africans Welcome US Pledge to Help with Environment Fund
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States is prepared to work with other countries to fund $100 billion a year by 2020 to address climate change needs of developing countries. African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture Rhoda Tumusiime said Clinton's comments are a positive step.
  • Dec 11, 2009 New climate draft has gaping holes at UN talks
    Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them — or at least cut them in half — by 2050 under a draft text circulated Friday at the U.N. climate talks.
  • Dec 9, 2009 Rich vs. poor clash at Copenhagen over money
    Negotiators on Wednesday worked to bridge the chasm between rich and poor countries over how to share the burden of fighting climate change, and a top U.S. envoy was to highlight the Obama administration's efforts to curb greenhouse emissions.
  • Dec 8, 2009 ActionAid Warns Against a Weak Deal at the Climate Change Conference
    Climate experts say data for the first decade of the 21st century will likely show it to be the warmest on record, with 2009 its hottest year.
  • Nov 12, 2009 Food summit to make little headway in war on hunger
    A U.N. world food summit next week is not likely to make more than token headway in the fight against hunger, with leaders merely pledging to boost aid to poor countries but setting no targets or deadlines for action.

Women's Rights

IMF Project

  • Dec 10, 2009 Soros Proposes Fund to Unlock Climate Talks
    U.N. talks in the Danish capital meant to agree the outline of a new climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol are stuck on splitting the bill to cut carbon emissions and prepare for more droughts, floods and rising seas.
  • Apr 28, 2009 'Hungry children do not make good learners'
    Are loans from the IMF preventing the poorest countries from spending on children's education? ActionAid says 'yes.'
  • Apr 20, 2009 IMF and World Bank to Discuss Financing Aid for Developing Countries
    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.
  • Oct 29, 2008 NGOs Call for Radical Reforms as IMF Offers New Loans
    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."
  • Oct 11, 2008 Why does IMF want to ratchet up pressure on poor?
    ActionAid Senior Policy Analyst Rick Rowden letter published in The Financial Times regarding unnecessarily restrictive IMF policy on low-income countries

Education

  • Sep 13, 2009 Ghanaians urged to support decentralisation policy
    ActionAid organizes workshop for Ghanaians to brainstorm about the challenges facing the District Educational Oversight Committee and explore ways to improve the standard of education in their communities.
  • Jun 4, 2009 Nigeria: ActionAid Boss Restates Importance of Women Education
    Country Director of the ActionAid Nigeria, Abdul Hussaini, says that education of women will enhance the development of the nation.
  • Mar 10, 2009 Education in Tanzania: A series of near-misses
    ActionAid in working in northern Tanzania to convince parents to send their children to school and while also trying to make schools "girl-friendly."
  • Feb 5, 2009 Unemployment, stress: Kashmir youth switch to intoxication
    ActionAid study finds that nearly half of the unemployed youth in Kashmir is seeking solace in toxic substances in a bid toovercome stress and anxiety caused by not being able to earn a livelihood.
  • Sep 16, 2008 ActionAid Nigeria calls for Government to Invest in Adult Literacy
    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.

Emergencies

  • Feb 16, 2010 Contributions to UU Haiti fund near $1 million
    Unitarian Universalists have contributed almost $1 million to a relief fund created by the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee and the Unitarian Universalist Association to help victims of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.
  • Jan 19, 2010 Haiti quake: Aid workers' diaries, Monday 18 January
    Nearly a week after the Haiti earthquake struck, tens of thousands of victims are still waiting for aid, despite huge international efforts.
  • Jan 18, 2010 Disaster Capitalism Headed to Haiti
    In her book, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism," Naomi Klein explores the myth of free market democracy, explaining how neoliberalism dominates the world with America its main exponent exploiting security threats, terror attacks, economic meltdowns, competing ideologies, tectonic political or economic shifts, and natural disasters to impose its will everywhere.
  • Jan 15, 2010 Haiti's Earthquake Survivors Face Massive Risk of Disease as Bodies Litter the Streets, Says ActionAid
    Survivors of the Haiti earthquake will be at risk of disease unless the tens of thousands of victims' bodies are cleaned up, international aid agency ActionAid warned today.
  • Jan 14, 2010 Agencies scramble to respond as scale of Haiti calamity becomes clear
    Specialist search-and-rescue teams from the US, Britain, Canada, France, Venezuela and Iceland were today scrambled to join the international relief effort in Haiti as charities launched urgent appeals ­following the devastating earthquake.

HIV/AIDS

  • Sep 9, 2009 India patent rejections welcomed by HIV/AIDS groups
    India's rejection of patent applications on two life-saving HIV/AIDS drugs last week has been welcomed by health officials, who say it will ensure wider access to the medicines.
  • Jul 14, 2009 South Africa: Lesbians and HIV - low risk is not no risk
    Women who sleep with women are not at risk of HIV transmission – or are they? AIDS advocates warn that it is time for a wake-up call about who is and is not at risk.
  • Jan 6, 2009 Social stigma, ignorance still plague HIV-positive people
    ActionAid and other NGOs push for open HIV and AIDS dialogue to generate greater awareness, as well as for additional financial assistance to combat the disease.
  • Jan 5, 2009 Manicaland HIV/AIDS Patients Fail to Access Drugs
    ActionAid has found that people living with HIV in Nyanga and Rusape have gone for more than three years on cotrimoxazole tablets only because they can not access Antiretroviral medication.
  • Aug 4, 2008 Uganda: The Wretched Women of the Aids Struggle
    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.