Featured Work
Together We Must!
UNIFEM and ActionAid are proud to release a new report that profiles innovative approaches to addressing Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) and HIV&AIDS. Together We Must! End Violence Against Women and Girls and HIV&AIDS reviews ten organizations that are working on new strategies to address these related pandemics.
Senegal Water Project Alleviates Burden on Women
Securing clean drinking water remains a daily challenge for Senegalese women working to provide for their families. ActionAid is on the ground working with villages to build reservoirs.
Culture Remains a Hurdle Between Afghanistan’s Women and Empowerment
Afghanistan’s empowerment of women is at the lowest levels of anywhere in the world. ActionAid is working throughout the country to empower women through education, the provision of basic rights and by increasing their access to information.
Women's Rights and Climate Change Collide
Malawian Mazoe Gondwe and ActionAid work to showcase women's rights and climate change hurdles.
Amplifying Women's Voices through a Livelihood
ActionAid's approach to ending poverty is to strengthen women in their own struggles and help them to unleash their own potential to change the world. In Ghana’s Ulkpong-Bakonoyiri Community, the entire village has benefited from this practice because women purchased a machine to grind shea nuts, and built an area to mill cereal and house a piggery.
Publications
Media Gallery
Women and War, a book and exhibition by Jenny Matthews, is a visual diary. It is “the story of remarkable women – ordinary people surviving as best they can during and after conflict. Some women chose to take up arms but, for most, war is about coping with the disruption of normal life. Women are the caretakers, the sustainers, the mediators.
