All International Policy Features
Fighting Human Trafficking in Vietnam
Aug 11, 2008
An estimated 60 percent of the 45,000 prostitutes in Cambodia’s capital city, Phnom Penh, are Vietnamese. These women come on the promise of a factory job with dreams of supporting their families back home. Once they arrive in Phnom Pen, alone and with little money, the “factory recruiters” force them into the sex trade. ActionAid fights to end human trafficking by educating women about how to protect themselves from scam artists and by helping them identify and pursue livelihoods in their own communities.
ActionAid and Naomi Klein
Jul 7, 2008
ActionAid supporter and author, Naomi Klein discussed her international best-selling book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism to a packed house with ActionAid Thursday, July 10th at Busboys and Poets.
ActionAid Challenges G8 on Response to Food Crisis
Jul 2, 2008
Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations meet in Hokaido, Japan, from July 7-9. The failure of G8 policies on food, biofuels, and climate change places up to 1.7 billion people – 25% of the world’s population – at risk of hunger. ActionAid makes recommendations to G8 leaders in our new report, “Cereal Offenders: How the G8 has Contributed to the Global Food Crisis and What They Can Do to Stop It.”
After 28 months in prison, Daniel and Netsanet are free
Mar 28, 2008 (ActionAid Press Release)
After 28 months in prison, Daniel and Netsanet are free. Anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie released from prison in Ethiopia
The Vicious Cycle of IMF Conditions in Sierra Leone and Malawi
Mar 17, 2008
Donors link their aid disbursements to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) rating of the recipient government. Many economists and several studies have asserted that the IMF’s rating system creates undue restrictions that are not necessary for long-term economic stability. ActionAid is working to educate parliamentarians and civil society leaders in Malawi, Sierra Leone and Kenya about the impact of the IMF’s conditionalities.
Vulture Funds
Mar 17, 2008
Even modest debt relief measures that have been achieved for indebted developing countries are threatened by the emergence of Vulture Funds, a dimension of hedge fund operations which prey upon these countries. ActionAid calls on the United States and other governments to regulate the Vulture Funds, financed by private investors and to allow poor countries to pursue negotiated, sustainable paths out of debt.
