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Agents of change: The role of Palestine’s women-led organizations in crisis

ActionAid USA’s statement on Congress’s Resolution on Migration Stability

The industries fuelling the climate crisis are draining public funds in the Global South, new ActionAid report reveals

How the Finance Flows: Corporate capture of Public Finance

Rebuilding Communities after the Earthquake: Samira’s Story

Resilience in Crisis: Supporting Women to Rebuild Their Lives

Transforming Lives in Baringo and Makueni: Women’s Leadership in Climate Adaptation

Kenya’s ill-advised tax increases illustrate IMF’s failed policies, ActionAid says

Young people recount horrific experiences of police brutality during Kenya tax protests

ActionAid responds to the loss of life in Kenya protests

Tell Congress it is time to do its fair share of climate action!

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ActionAid hears from women as millions struggle to access menstrual products, sanitation facilities, and hygiene education

$2.1 billion pledges for Sudan crisis a step in the right direction, but immediate ceasefire still urgent, says ActionAid

Let’s Hold Banks Accountable!

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Compelled to Flee: Cycles of Israeli forced displacement of Palestinians

Rooted Resilience: Addressing the root causes of environmental destruction in the DRC

Rooted Resilience: Agroecology as a feminist tool for the climate crisis

ActionAid’s Five Climate Justice Benchmarks for COP28  

Historic UN tax vote for convention major win for public services

‘Our lives will never be the same,’ say Niger Delta communities devastated by Shell gas flares

From Aswan to Abu Dhabi: What Next for the Loss & Damage Fund?

Unraveling the Global Food Crisis: Profits, Vulnerability, and the Urgent Need for Change

No real action from IMF and World Bank. It’s business as usual – which means more debt and austerity – say ActionAid activists at annual meetings

What the Fourth Transitional Committee Meeting Must Deliver

Fifty Years of Failure: The IMF, Debt and Austerity in Africa

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank Annual meetings in Morocco are a chance to address harmful austerity and debt policies that have left millions in poverty on the African continent, says ActionAid 

Families in hard-to-reach areas receive dignity kits and safety information leaflets

Families in hard-to-reach Atlas Mountain communities receive urgent humanitarian assistance from ActionAid and partners

Families in hard-to-reach Atlas Mountain communities to receive urgent humanitarian assistance from ActionAid and partners

ActionAid reacts to earthquake in Morocco – calling for support to affected regions 

The Africa Climate Summit is a missed opportunity for Africa to turn the tables on the climate crisis, says ActionAid

All about our ‘Fund Our Future’ campaign

Tell Citi to stop funding climate chaos NOW!

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Defunding industrial agriculture in favor of sustainable alternatives like agroecology is key in the fight against the climate crisis and food insecurity

Banks providing twice as much financing to the second biggest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions than Global North governments have provided to fight climate change, ActionAid reveals

How the Finance Flows: the banks fueling the climate crisis

Le Coût Humain de la Crise Alimentaire: La hausse des prix fait des ravages dans le monde entierLe Coût Humain dela Crise Alimentaire

Los Costos Humanos de la Crisis Alimentaria: Cómo los Picos de Precios Están Causando Estragos en todo El Mundo

ActionAid report: Food and fuel prices skyrocket up to tenfold in the world’s most marginalized communities since the war in Ukraine

The Human Costs of the Food Crisis: How Price Spikes are Wreaking Havoc Across the Globe

Beyond affordability: a dual crisis for young women in Nigeria

Resilience in farming: Ngozi’s story on navigating the price spikes

From floods and price spikes to agroecology: Martha’s story

ActionAid International comments on negotiations at Bonn Climate Conference 2023

Fund Our Future

The Vicious Cycle: Connections Between the Debt Crisis and Climate Crisis

Why Decolonising the Financing of Education is Key to Solving the Education Crisis

Horn of Africa Pledging Conference: “Disappointing results with a devastating impact on women and girls.”

Over 36 million face hunger every day in East Africa: ActionAid calls for urgent funding

Nurses fight to provide care despite funding cuts in Malawi

Building resilience in a drought: Suleekha’s Story

Bravery in the face of loss: Asiya’s story

93% of countries most vulnerable to climate disasters are either in or at significant risk of debt distress, new research by ActionAid International shows

Drought in East Africa: How Communities in Somaliland are Adapting

Cyclone Freddy leaves a trail of destruction in Malawi: “Everything is gone”

ActionAid’s response to the first meeting of the Transitional Committee to design new Loss & Damage fund

ActionAid strengthens resilience as Cyclone Freddy death toll rises in Malawi

On the launch of the Santiago Declaration for Public Services, ActionAid joins hundreds of organizations to demand ‘Our Future is Public’

Rosemary’s story: living through climate change-induced drought in Kenya

16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence against women: ActionAid urges governments to end all forms of femicide.

Draft COP27 cover note is a ‘letdown which urgently needs saving’, says ActionAid International

G77 loss and damage funding proposal is ‘clear and sensible’, and developed countries need to stop delaying, says ActionAid

Women disproportionately impacted by climate change must have their voices heard at COP27, says ActionAid

COP27 Youth and Future Generations Day: Youth activists demand a seat at the table

ActionAid calls out US claims that carbon markets will fulfill climate goals

ActionAid responds to Net Zero recommendations at COP27

ActionAid responds to the decision to include loss and damage funding on agenda at COP27

The Long Shadow of the Climate Crisis: Why a new funding facility must address loss and damage

Nearly 150 Organizations Call on U.S. Government to Support a Loss and Damage Finance Facility at COP27

EU Parliament increases pressure on COP27 ‘to take responsibility and act with compassion in the face of the climate crisis.’

Climate crisis to blame for high rates of cholera, says ActionAid

Global food, fuel, and fertilizer price rises are devastating local communities

The Care Contradiction: The IMF, Gender, and Austerity

Famine announcement will be too little too late in East Africa

This is the worst drought Somaliland has faced. Here’s why…

Women-led response to the East Africa drought

Tackling hunger through School Feeding Programs

East Africa Food Crisis: Stories from Somaliland

Demand U.S. officials protect reproductive health rights!

European heatwaves – a glimpse into the Global South’s reality

East Africa food crisis: No-one knows what tomorrow holds

East Africa Food Crisis: Xidhinta

East Africa Food Crisis: Ceel-Hume

East Africa Food Crisis: Giro-Sumo IDP Camp

East Africa Food Crisis: Ceel-Dheere

East Africa Food Crisis: Ceel-Giniseed

East Africa Food Crisis: “Now the world is ending”

Climate crisis fuels drought and severe hunger across the Horn of Africa

ActionAid responds to humanitarian and hunger crisis in Southern Tigray

On the frontlines with refugees around the world

Stopping the spread of Covid-19: stories of change from the frontlines of Africa

Each other’s keepers: a case for Ugandan-U.S. solidarity

Democracy is about people’s power

U.S.-Kenya FTA and the rights to land and food

Global Coronavirus Relief

Women farmers restoring balance to the Earth

The Food and Agriculture Sector Development Project in The Gambia

Le GAFSP permet-il de toucher les petits producteurs de denrées alimentaires au Sénégal?

Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, visits ActionAid South Africa to learn more about work on women’s rights

Climate Justice in the Food System

What I learned from farmers in The Gambia about resisting climate change

Farmers Building Resilience to Climate Change in The Gambia

Ebola in DRC: ActionAid’s response

World Refugee Day 2019 Spotlight

The Expanding Rice Production Project in Tanzania

Is GAFSP Reaching Small-Scale Food Producers in The Gambia?

Le GAFSP atteint-il les petits producteurs de denrées alimentaires en Tanzanie?

Is GAFSP Reaching Small-Scale Food Producers in Tanzania?

Take A Look Back At Three Blogs We Published in 2018

Support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Rural People to Realize the Right to Food

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Women in Agriculture, Ethiopia’s First Female President, and Tax Free Sanitary Products

Climate Change and the Right to Food

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: World Warming Half A Degree, Women Blazing Trails, and Brazilian Elections

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Nobel Peace Prize, Sexual Harassment Legislation, and Helping Students Study Space

Right to Food: What It Is and Why We Support It

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Activism Through Cinema, Indigenous Languages in Alaska, and Fighting Stigma Against Albinism

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Sami People Fight for Rights, FGM Crackdown, Gazans Resist Blockade

Can the World Accept That Global Hunger Is Rising Again?

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Apps to Curb Hunger, Girl Donates Piggy Banks to Flood Relief, and Heat Waves Getting Hotter

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Single Women Face Housing Discrimination, Women’s Month in South Africa, and Baby Changing Spaces in Men’s Restrooms

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Africa Leads Fight Against Plastic, Kenyan Women Claim Their Rights, and Nigerian Woman Upcycles Tires

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe Election, Global Wildfires, and Youth Voter Registration on the Rise

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Cicig, House Farm Bill Fails, Mushroom Revolution

Improving Food Security for Farmers in Senegal

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Palestinians Plan Bigger Protests, New Climate Doc, Feminist Favela

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: More Women in Gaza Protests, Puerto Rico Blackout, South Sudan’s Farmers Innovate

Is GAFSP reaching small-scale food producers in Senegal?

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Thai New Year & Women’s Rights, Indian Village Fights Femicide with Trees

Le GAFSP permet-il de toucher les petits producteurs de denrées alimentaires au Sénégal?

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Extra Pads for Female Inmates, African Continental Free Trade Agreement, “Dancing Queer”

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Marielle Franco, Indian Women Farmers March for Land Rights, South African Teen Invents Fire-Resistant Shack

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Quilombo Claims Land Rights, SOS from Indonesia Palm Plantation, Rwanda Leads in Female Political Representation

The Collapse of the New Alliance and the Continued Threat of Agribusiness to Food Security

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Somaliland Fatwa Bans FGM, Spain’s First Black Female MP, 25% of Sri Lankan Local Election Candidates Are Female

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Somalia Drought, Busting Menstruation Myths in India, Female Afro-Brazilian Drummers Break Gender Barrier

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Cape Town Water Crisis, Rohingya Repatriation, Honduran Women March

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zambia’s Cholera Crisis, Immigration Crackdown Increases Money Transfers from US to Mexico, Public Wi-Fi in Zimbabwe

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: African Refugees Champion Girls’ Education, Indian Women Farmers Claim Land Rights, Indigenous Women Occupy Washington State Capitol

African Farmers Conduct Audits to Track How Government Money Is Spent

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Wildfires Affect Farmworkers, South Sudanese Women Want Peace, Syrian Teen Wins Peace Prize

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: “Frontier Midwives”, Blackouts in Malawi, Mekong Review

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Haiti Struggles to Rebuild, US Military in Africa, Making Solar Roofs from Trash

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Political Crisis, Plastic Pollution in the Philippines, #StopLine3

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Vietnam Recovers from Typhoon Damrey, LGBTQ Rights in Guatemala, South Africa’s Black Beekeepers

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Resisting Bayou Bridge Pipeline, Ending Child Marriage in Ghana, Pushing Women’s Rights in Kyrgyzstan

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Somalia “9/11”, Mexico Quake Survivors, Requiem for Cambodia

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Ugandan Students Fight Early Marriage, No Fireworks in New Delhi, Refugees and New Yorkers Dine Together

Ugandan Authorities Shut Down ActionAid’s Work, Freeze Bank Accounts

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Famine Averted, Saudi Women Drive, Monitor Deforestation with an App

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Schools in Sierra Leone Re-open, Trudeau Addresses Colonization at UN, Philippines’ LGBTQ Rights Bill

ActionAid Continues to Demand Justice and Accountability in Uganda

Standing Up for Civic Engagement, from the US to Uganda

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Biometric Voter Registration, Beekeeping Amidst Kenyan Drought, Mayan Weavers Fight Exclusion

“Sierra Leoneans are very strong people, but it’s not easy. Some of them who were affected [by mudslides] were just barely picking up after the Ebola crisis.”
Zynab Kamara, Emergency Response Manager, ActionAid Sierra Leone

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Rohingyas Flee, Sierra Leone Mudslide Survivors, Liberia’s Women’s Rights Movement

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Pakistan Floods, Ghanaian Farmers Demand Land Rights, Atlanta’s Pianos for Peace

Sierra Leone Mudslide Disaster – Every Day, Every Hour, I Think About The Women And Children

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Niger’s “Husband Schools”, Climate Gentrification in Little Haiti, Chile Relaxes Abortion Ban

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Sierra Leone Mudslides, Brazil Court Favors Indigenous Land Rights, Comedic Relief for Refugee Children in Europe

ActionAid Response to Mudslides, Flooding in Sierra Leone

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Kenya Election, Nepal Bans Menstrual Exile, CO2 & Fish Food

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Jordan’s ‘Marry the Rapist’ Law, Farmer Suicides in India and a Saudi Women’s Music Video

New Draft USAID Mission Statement Prioritizes American Interests over People Living in Poverty

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Karate Cops in India, Young Farmers in the U.S., Pedal Power in Africa

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Climate, Sugarcane, & Hantavirus in Brazil, African Women Fight Fistula, Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Urban Farms, Delhi’s New Toilet App, Honduras’s Child Marriage Ban

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: G20 Protests, Countries Set Up Climate Funds, and Lebanese Café Brings Enemies Together

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: “Nasty Women” Edition

East Africa Is Facing Drought, While the White House Wants to Flex Military Muscle

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Deadly Heatwaves, Niger’s Water Crisis, and Raising Menstruation Awareness in Nepal

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Gaza Electricity Crisis, Zimbabwe’s Youth Vote, Indonesian City Revokes Permits for Palm Oil

Campaigning for LGBTQI Rights in South Africa

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Cyclone Hits Bangladesh, South Africans Protest Violence Against Women, and Mexico’s First Indigenous Woman to Run for President

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Ebola in DRC, Nepal’s Local Elections, South Africa’s “Super Grannies”

Trump’s Attacks on Women’s Rights Extend Far Beyond Access to Safe Abortions

Donor governments must respect African ownership of renewable energy initiatives.
Brandon Wu, Director of Policy & Campaigns, ActionAid USA

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: 82 Chibok Girls Freed, Zika Emergency Is Over, & Renewables in the Philippines

Developing Sustainable Solutions to Food Crisis in East Africa

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Fighting Sexual Harassment in Uganda, East Africa Food Crisis, Vietnam’s Feminist Rappers

3 Things You May Have Missed: Vietnamese Villagers Fight for Land Rights, Aspiring Female Carmaker in Sudan, Going to School on the US-Mexico Border

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Chibok Girls Still Missing, Closed Cable Cars, Malala Yousafazi

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: South Africa Protests, Women in Pakistan Reclaim Public Spaces, and Marches Continue in Venezuela

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Doctors Test Ebola Vaccine, KXL Is Approved, Baseball in Gaza

Battle for Survival: Brave Women, Dry Rivers and Safety

From Local Communities to the United Nations, Women Farmers Make Their Voices Heard

3 Things You May Have Missed: IWD Protests, Pruitt & Climate, and Somalia Declares National Disaster

ActionAid USA Statement on International Women’s Strike

ActionAid Statement on Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa

3 Things You May Have Missed: Pakistan’s Female Comedians, Ghana Independence Day, and Australia Must Protect Indigenous Women

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Horn of Africa Drought, #NODAPL Camp Evacuation, Syrian Women Call for Release of Detainees

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Alternative Rite of Passage in Kenya, Haiti’s New President, and Pakistan’s First Female Bomb Squad Member

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Refugees in Limbo, Thai Grandmas Fight Mining, Indian Scientists’ Cheaper Carbon Capture Method

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: The Gambia’s President Returns, India’s #IWillGoOut March, and Women in Egypt Take the Wheel

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: The Gambia State of Emergency, Obama Administration Sends $500m to Climate Fund, Indian Anti-Trafficking Activists Win Award