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COP29 is a test of wealthy countries’ commitment to securing a liveable planet

ActionAid lays out key asks for COP29

Having a climate denier in the White House poses new barriers to climate action, says ActionAid

“A damp squib” – IMF and World Bank annual meetings end on a low as growing debt crisis and burden of austerity remain unresolved – ActionAid 

“It is outrageous that the IMF is once again calling for cuts to government wage bills” – ActionAid reacts to the Fiscal Monitor presented by the IMF

The IMF’s World Economic Outlook is a colonial relic that needs to be overhauled, says ActionAid 

ActionAid calls for the abolition of the IMF and World Bank if there’s no overhaul ahead of the institutions’ annual meetings

ActionAid’s statement on Hurricane Milton

“T-I-A-A fix your mess! We expect nothing less!”

Loss and Damage at Home: Reckoning with Hurricane Helene’s Devastation

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

The Indigenous Guard: protecting Colombia’s páramo

ActionAid USA’s Statement on Citi’s Attempt to Criminalize Peaceful Climate Protests

Step into a Farmers’ Life: ActionAid USA’s new agriculture stories put readers and supporters in the boots of farmers in today’s Rural America

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

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ActionAid USA’s response to Biden’s Executive Order shutting down asylum requests

Global Day of Action on May 2 will Call on States to #StopSendingArms to Israel

Your funding of climate-wrecking projects is robbing us of livelihoods and homes, communities tell global banks as AGM season kicks off

ActionAid USA’s statement of solidarity with U.S. student activism for Palestinian rights

Time is up – IMF and World Bank must end colonial rule, says ActionAid

ActionAid joins 96 organizations in calling on the World Bank and IMF to support universal social security

ActionAid USA’s response to the introduction of the Green Climate Fund Authorization Act

Let’s Hold Banks Accountable!

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Climate Justice Mobilisations on Finance

Compelled to Flee: Cycles of Israeli forced displacement of Palestinians

Haiti’s triple crisis and its impact on women and girls

Communities living in fear and on the brink of starvation as violence surges in Haiti

ActionAid calls for reforms to the IMF’s voting share structure, as the EU supports the Managing Director’s second-term bid

Demand A Ceasefire NOW in Gaza and Israel

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ActionAid USA endorses the Artists4Ceasefire Letter

70 civil society groups urge U.S. to change course at Loss & Damage negotiations

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

What the Fourth Transitional Committee Meeting Must Deliver

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

Global Lessons from the Struggle to Secure Community Land Rights in the Brazilian Cerrado

Statement from ActionAid USA on the GCF-2 Pledging Conference

What’s up with the Global Stocktake?

It’s dangerous to pin our climate hopes on CCS, says ActionAid expert as IEA launches report

Climate Ambition Summit: Shutting down the space for greenwashing is a necessary start, says ActionAid climate expert

Climate march makes it clear: It’s time to phase out fossil fuels

Climate Ambition Summit an opportunity to take bold climate crisis decisions, say ActionAid climate experts

Exposing TIAA’s role in land grabbing and ecocide: resources and publications to help you understand why we fight

Land Grabbing and Ecocide: How Bunge, TIAA, and Harvard Fuel the Destruction of the Destruction of the Brazilian Cerrado

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

A crucial moment for the new Loss & Damage Fund

Tell your Senator: Co-Sponsor the Farmland for Farmers Act

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Tackling corporate agriculture: resources and publications to help you understand why we fight

The Financialization of Farmland: A Threat to Family Farming, Rural Economies, and Climate Action

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

Our Future is Burning, They’re Still Not Learning

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

ActionAid International comments on negotiations at Bonn Climate Conference 2023

The Biden Administration is putting geopolitics over global food security

Fund Our Future

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

ActionAid calls World Bank appointment ‘concerning’ as it urges new President to recognize the scale of the global debt crisis

ActionAid’s response to Biden Administration’s $1 billion contribution to the Green Climate Fund

Net-Zero Toolkit: Resources to Spot Greenwashing in the Dangerous Net-Zero Framing

Could bi-partisan action on land-grabbing happen soon?

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

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

Biden’s commitments ‘far from what’s needed’ for the climate crisis now, says ActionAid

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

Millions of dollars set to be invested in developing an anti-racist public education system in Brazil

Part 1: For a livable planet, we need to stop TIAA’s land grabbing and greenwashing

ActionAid USA response to Senate passage of the Inflation Reduction Act

On Choice: Stories from the fight for reproductive freedom

Resources for reproductive justice

ActionAid USA Statement on the President’s FY 23 Budget Request

Fossil Fuels in the COP Decision Text: Why the U.S., not India, is the problem

ActionAid responds to U.S.-China Joint Glasgow Declaration on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s

“Food Connects Us All” Grassroots Voices from North America

ActionAid USA reacts to revised U.S. climate finance pledge

TIAA’s “Net Zero by 2050” plan is pure greenwash. Demand real action.

University of Iowa employees to TIAA: “Stop harming communities and climate through land grabs”

ActionAid responds as Haiti struck by 7.2 magnitude earthquake

The U.S. has a tendency to tout leadership, but from our perspective, the U.S. has not really been a leader on climate if you look at what they’re actually putting on the table
Niranjali Amerasinghe, Executive Director of ActionAid USA, on the U.S. climate fair share and putting real money forward

ActionAid stands in solidarity with the people of Haiti

ActionAid USA is concerned about Cindy McCain nomination for UN food agencies

Staff Picks: resources for racial justice

ActionAid USA reacts to the FY 2022 President’s budget

What should Bill and Melinda Gates do with all that farmland?

How President Biden can claim real climate leadership

Biden’s new emissions target ‘deeply insufficient’ to tackle the climate crisis

Biden’s climate commitment falls far short of U.S. “fair share”

Environmental, environmental justice, development, faith, and youth groups urge Biden administration to commit to a “fair share” climate target at Earth Day Climate Leaders’ Summit

ActionAid USA reacts to the Biden Administration’s initial FY22 budget proposal

Civil society groups release “Fair Shares NDC” model for revised U.S. climate action pledge under the Paris Agreement

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

As the biggest long-term contributor to climate-heating emissions, the United States had a moral and legal responsibility to help vulnerable communities
Brandon Wu, Director of Policy & Campaigns of ActionAid USA, on why we need to do more than simply re-joining the Paris Agreement

Right to food: Why the U.S. needs to step up

Over 50,000 people & 195 global groups demand Biden commit the U.S. to do its “fair share” on climate

Leading environment, development & faith groups call on the Biden administration to commit $8 billion for the Green Climate Fund

Disparity to Parity: demanding living wages for all food producers

Two things Biden can do now for environmental justice

Five global justice priorities for the Biden administration

ActionAid USA condemns attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol

Brazilian Government Finds that TIAA and Harvard Violated Law in Acquiring Half a Million Acres of Farmland

Diverse Coalition Calls for Systemic Policy Changes to Ensure Equity Across Our Food System

Our vision for a new social contract

Vilsack is the wrong choice for Secretary of Agriculture

Old dog, new tricks? John Kerry needs to lead a total reform of U.S. climate diplomacy

Ferguson, up for Treasury Secretary, leaves a legacy of misleading claims to social responsibility

If TIAA’s Roger Ferguson wants to be Treasury Secretary, he should fix his farmland problem

ActionAid USA reacts to the election of Joe Biden as 46th President of the United States of America

Street protest might be what saves our democracy

Get ready to show up for democracy

We’re not alone: Lessons on democracy and authoritarianism from the rest of world

A pivotal moment for the United States: my reflections from growing up during a civil war

Making a case for the postal service in the name of democracy

Trump’s climate denialism is an intentional blow to effective governance

Show Up, Fight Back: connecting the struggle for land rights to the struggle for racial justice

How much do we need to pay TIAA to stop grabbing farmland?

Take action for Juneteenth 2020

Staff Picks: resources for racial justice

The U.S. is exporting coronavirus to its southern neighbors

ActionAid USA supports demands to defund police

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

Why protecting meatpackers and farmers is good for our collective health

ActionAid USA Responds to Trump’s announcement to halt funding to the World Health Organization

Coronavirus and the food system: a shock in logistics, not supply

Global Coronavirus Relief

ActionAid USA Executive Director testifies before congressional committee calling for increased climate finance

Anthropologists join the call to hold TIAA accountable for farmland investments

The Armed Lifeboat

Climate Justice in the Food System

The Climate Crisis is Now: Who Needs to Do What?

When Pensions Buy Plantations: TIAA and other Wall Street Firms are Amassing Farmland in Mississippi

Sanders’ Green New Deal Plan A Good Step Towards International Climate Justice

Investing in a better future: how TIAA has it all wrong

Part 2: TIAA’s farms up close

Part 1: TIAA’s “sustainability reports” can’t paper over the impacts of land grabbing

BECCS: A Dangerous Distraction

The DNC got it wrong on a climate debate

ILO adopts historic law to end violence and harassment in the workplace

World Refugee Day 2019 Spotlight

It’s time that Wall Street paid its fair share!

Stepping Up for International Climate Justice

Two Years of Arbitrary Detention: The Case of Abelino Chub Caal and Why Indigenous Land Must be Returned

Earth Day Spotlight: Freedom for Indigenous Rights Defender Abelino Chub Caal

One Minute with Jim Goodman, Board President of the National Family Farm Coalition

ActionAid USA Announces a Transition of Executive Leadership

ActionAid USA Response to Climate Action Now Act

Green New Deal: What it Is and What it Isn’t

Land for Communities: Fulfilling Human Rights and Protecting the Planet

“I Want You to Panic”: Why Today’s Protests Matter

Supporter Spotlight: Baker Elementary Fundraises For Disaster Response

Trump’s New Women’s Empowerment Initiative: Simply Incoherent or Downright Disingenuous

ActionAid USA Response to Green New Deal Resolution

Palm Oil Roundtable Should Suspend Membership of Groups Undermining Human Rights

Haitian Farmers Win Concessions to Land Rights Demands

U.S. Policies at the Border and Beyond Killed Jakelin Caal

ActionAid Responds to U.S. Coal Side Event at COP24

Take A Look Back At Three Blogs We Published in 2018

This Photo from California Fires Shows Why We Need to Transform the Industrial Food and Farming System Now

ActionAid USA Responds to the EPA’s Release of the Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs)

Here Are Three Things We Achieved Together in 2018

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Rohingya Refugees Sent Back to Myanmar, Fishermen Suing Fossil Fuel Companies, and LGBTQ Rights in Costa Rica

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Poor Diets, Venezuelan Refugees, and More Women in Congress

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: Venice Floods, North Carolina Joins Paris Agreement, and Oceans Absorb Heat

Connecting Land Rights, Migration and Human Rights on Capitol Hill

Climate Change and the Right to Food

International Community Development Means Fighting Colonialism and Supporting Grassroots Initiatives

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

Joining Farmworkers, Farmers and Food Justice Activists to Stand for the Right to Food

Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, and Food Security in Guatemala: It’s Time For Governments to be Accountable

Trump Weaponizes Childhood Food Assistance in Violation of the Human Right to Food

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

Can the World Accept That Global Hunger Is Rising Again?

The Number of Refugees Allowed into U.S. Hits Lowest Ceiling in Four Decades

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Heat Days, World Hunger Spike, and Hurricane Florence

As Global Hunger, Land Grabbing, and Climate Change Continue, Time to Look at Root Causes in our Agriculture Policies

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Palestinian Roof Gardens, Swedish Election, and Venezuelans Fleeing Shortages

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Scotland Offers Free Sanitary Products, Women in Tech, and Decriminalizing Abortion

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

Farming, Food Safety, and Environmental Organizations Call on DOJ to Block Bayer-Monsanto Toxic Mega Merger

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Pacific Trash Vortex Cleanup, Women’s Test Scores Lowered, and First Muslim Woman in Congress

Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Land Is a Basic Human Right

Trump Nominates Monsanto Seed Producer and Biofuels Baron as UN Ambassador for Food Security and Agriculture

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: Syrian Women Bake Bread, Activism Through Cake, and American Arrested in Vietnam

Haitian Development Starts with Haiti

Rising Up Against Violence: #BringTheNoise Protest Has My Vote

Trump Is Turning His Back on People Experiencing Poverty and Hunger

ActionAid Stands Against State-Sponsored Kidnapping – and All Forms of Unjust Immigration Enforcement

Bioenergy Is a False Solution for Communities and the Climate, and We Need Real Solutions for Rural Economies and Ecologies

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Costa Rica Fossil-Free Goal, Antarctica’s First Pride Party, Baltimore’s Arabbers Keep Tradition Alive

Trump’s Racist Immigration Policies Ignore the Real Causes of Migration from Central America

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

UN Rapporteur for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Visits Jailed Land Rights Defender in Guatemala

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

Trump Announces Changes to Biofuels Policy, but only Big Companies Benefit

ActionAid Reacts to White House Announcement on Renewable Fuel Standard

For Indigenous Leaders in Guatemala, Defending Their Land Can Mean Jail Time

“Get Big or Get Out”: How Biofuels Programs Prop Up Industrial Agribusiness in the United States

Industrial Agriculture is Destroying Rural Iowa and This is What It Looks Like

Agribusiness Is Devastating to Family Farmers, Rural Communities, and the Environment

Biofuels Mandates Prop Up the “Get Big or Get Out” Model of Agribusiness in Iowa

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Lesbian Visibility Day, Nicaragua Uprising, Gaza Friday of Rebellious Youth

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

5 Reasons Pompeo is Unfit to Be Secretary of State

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Palestinians, Cambodians Claim Land Rights

Documents Forged with Cricket Poop Used to Legalize Land Claims in Brazil as World Bank Project Opens Doors to Land Grabbers

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Linda Brown Dies and Leaves Powerful Legacy, Brazilian Sports Reporters Fight Sexual Harassment, La Borinqueña to the Rescue

Immigrant Youth Shouldn’t Be Detained: Patricia Zermeño

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

World Bank Program Forcing Local Communities Off Their Land

The World Bank’s Land Program in the State of Piauí, Brazil, Is a License for Land Grabbing

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

Corn v. Oil: Missing the Big Picture on Biofuels

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

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

Palm Oil Pays for Human Rights Abuses, Land Grabbing, and Corruption

Still Looking Forward on Climate

State of the Union: Why I Won’t Be Watching

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

New Investigation into U.S. Renewable Fuels Policies Finds “Green” Biodiesel Producers Driving Massive Deforestation

Burned – Deception, Deforestation and America’s Biodiesel Policy

Agribusiness Giant Cargill Suspends Contract with Controversial Guatemalan Palm Oil Producer Over Environmental and Human Rights Violations

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

Making Sense of the Many Faces of the United States at the UN Climate Talks

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

UN Climate Negotiations Kick Off: What to Look For

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Manus Island Refugee Protest, Banksy’s Tea Party in Palestine, Brazil’s Indigenous Rappers on Land Rights

ActionAid USA Reacts to Sam Clovis’ Withdrawal from USDA Nomination

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

Clean Power Plan Repeal Ignores Billions Impacted by Climate Change

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: UN Ends Controversial Haiti Mission, Rohingya Families Reunite, New Global Pledge to Stop Cholera

One Year After Hurricane Matthew

Land Rights, Palm Oil and Conflict in Guatemala

Soybean Plantations: A Threat to Communities in the Cerrado Amazon Transition Zone

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

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

Human Rights Experts Uncover Alarming Human and Environmental Costs of Agribusiness

International Mission to Measure Human Rights Impact of Land Grabbing Kicks Off

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

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

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

ActionAid Reaction to EPA Announcement on Renewable Volume Obligations for 2018

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: Sustainable Farming in Indonesia, Haitian Students Learn Better in Creole, and the Tear Down This Wall! Music Festival

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: Indigenous Radio Show on Women’s Rights, Protest Camp in West Bank, Amman to Work with Youth & Refugees to Boost Economy

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

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

Indigenous and Community Land Rights Under Attack in Area Where Pensions Giant TIAA Is Amassing Land

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

#WhyWeMarch – Climate Justice Demands and the People’s Climate March

Trump’s First 100 Days – Crisis, Resistance and Opportunity

Indigenous Communities Protect Forests From Onslaught of Palm Oil Industry in Guatemala

104,481 and Counting: Calling on TIAA to Stop Investing in Land Grabs

Activists and clients tell TIAA to stop investments linked to deforestation and displacement of local farmers

Pension Funds Are Trying to Control Our Food Supply – with Our Money

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: Trump’s Climate Attacks, Tackling Sexual Harassment in Mexico City, A School for Grandmas

Shutting Down US Climate Action Is About Much More Than Just Climate Denial

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

Trump Agriculture Nominee Perdue Avoided Taxes by Speculating in Swampland

ActionAid Statement on Sonny Perdue’s Confirmation Hearing as Agriculture Secretary

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Nepal Displaces Quake Victims, Protests for Guatemalan Girls, and New Zealand River Becomes a Person

Reaction to the Trump administration’s budget blueprint and proposal to end payments to global climate programs

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

Why I’m Decolonizing My Life and Following Our Native Leaders

ActionAid USA Statement on International Women’s Strike

“Muslim Ban 2.0” Underlines Politics of Division

ActionAid USA Reaction to Address to Joint Session of Congress

Selling Off Their Own Land: Brazil and US Turn Land Grabbing Into National Policy

Trump’s Budget Proposal: No Surprise, but Resistance Is a Must

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

Dirty Energy Companies Get Their Man at the EPA

ActionAid Reaction to Confirmation of Scott Pruitt as E.P.A. Administrator

Trump Is Expanding What Is Considered “Criminal” to Include the Entire Undocumented Immigrant Community

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

Even Your Own House Is at Risk From Climate Change, Mr. Trump

No, Trump, It Doesn’t Work

ActionAid Reaction to Executive Order Calling for Rollback of Wall Street Reform

Trump’s Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination Must be Stopped

Protests Set to Restart as Army Gives Dakota Access Pipeline Go Ahead

Food and Farm Groups Oppose Andrew Puzder for Labor Secretary

Keep Fossil Fuels Out of Trump’s #SwampCabinet

Why We Support Women Around the World to Claim Their Full Range of Sexual and Reproductive Rights – Including Abortions

5 Reasons Rex Tillerson Shouldn’t Be the Next Secretary of State

Trump’s Immigration and Border Policies: Trapping People in a Pressure Cooker

ActionAid Reaction to President Trump’s Executive Orders on Immigration and Border Security

Trump Bows to Big Oil and Gas, Green Lights Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines

If you eat food or drink water, you should be worried about Sonny Perdue as Ag Secretary

#WhyIMarch: Why I Joined the Women’s March on Washington

ActionAid USA Reaction to Inauguration of President Donald Trump

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

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Haiti Quake Anniversary, Tillerson Hearing, Cambodia’s Black Monday Campaign

Why We #RejectRex Trump’s Choice for Secretary of State

7 Years After Devastating Earthquake, Local Women Leading Hurricane Matthew Response

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Eucalyptus Land Grabs in Brazil, Pakistan’s Women’s Safety App, Syrian Artists Preserve History

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Aleppo Evacuation, US Secretary of State, Afghanistan’s First Female Rapper

Why We Oppose Big Oil Boss Tillerson as Secretary of State

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: #NoDAPL Victory, Indonesia Earthquake, Circus Therapy for Refugees

Staring Down the “Black Snake” at Standing Rock

Safe Cities for Women and Girls

ActionAid USA Signs Letter to President Obama: Support Standing Rock Sioux

Improving Healthcare for Indigenous Women in Guatemala

There Is an Alternative to Ethanol and Agribusiness in Rural America

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Standing Rock Doc, Rohingya Refugee Crisis, Kenya Weapon Burning

I’m Alarmed at How TIAA Is Investing My Retirement Funds

ActionAid USA Reaction to U.S. Elections

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Italy Earthquakes, WikiLeaks, India’s Air

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: #NoDAPL, Karate Grannies, Myanmar

Hurricane Matthew Rebuild Must Be Haitian-led

Responding to Hurricane Matthew in Haiti

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: South Africa, Guatemalan Refugees & Malala Yousafzai

Land Grabs and the Extractive Energy Model: What We Can Learn from Standing Rock

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Haiti Cholera Prevention, Damascus Rally & Boko Haram

It’s heartbreaking. We are overwhelmed by the level of disaster because they have nothing. There is no food, there is nothing
Yolette Etienne, ActionAid Haiti

We’re seeing an unparalleled momentum to tackle climate change
Harjeet Singh, ActionAid International

While international support is again slowly arriving in Haiti, it’s vital that the same mistakes aren’t repeated, when billions of dollars of aid were squandered
Chris Coxon, ActionAid USA