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Violence Against Women in the Gaza Strip

Following the Israeli military Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014, this reports presents the findings of a study initiated by ActionAid and Alianza por la Solidaridad (Alianza) on violence

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Loss and Damage: Climate Reality in the 21st Century

With the current global average temperature now at around 1°C above pre-industrial levels, poor people in developing countries are already suffering devastation from climate change impacts.It is

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Young Urban Women: Exploring Interlinkages: Bodily Integrity, Economic Security and Equitable Distribution of Unpaid Care Work

ActionAid and its partners have, since 2013, been working to address the issues of bodily integrity and economic security among approximately 5800 young women in the age group of 15- 25 years in seven

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AidWatch Report: Looking to the future, don't forget the past - Aid beyond 2015

2015 has been marked by important international decision-making moments, including the Financing for Development Conference in Addis, the Sustainable Development Goals Summit in New York and the lead

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Mind the Adaptation Gap

If the COP21 Paris climate agreement is to help developing countries to cope with and adapt to the impacts of climate change, it must ensure that richer countries provide the necessary financial

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Beyond Smiling Faces: How engaging with youth can help transform societies and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Youth across the world are frustrated and are speaking up. Through the Arab Spring in 2011 and a series of youth-led protests (e.g. in Brazil in 2013, Bahrain in 2014 or Burkina Faso in May 2015)

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Patching up a broken tax system: Why BEPS is not the solution to poor countries’ tax problems

ActionAid believes that the OECD’s proposed reforms to the international tax system (BEPS) fail to tackle tax avoidance by multinationals, exclude developing nations and will fail to deliver for the

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Taxation rights slipping through the cracks: How developing countries can get a better deal on their tax treaties

Tax treaties prescribe how countries can tax cross-border activities between the treaty partners. In the overwhelming majority of cases, they are outdated and unfair. In the form that they commonly

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Putting ideas to work: youth design their own futures

 Youth unemployment is one of the biggest social injustices of our time. It affects young people from all walks of life – informal street sellers on the streets of Lagos to recent graduates in Europe

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Putting ideas to work future: youth design their own futures

[ibimage==30641==image_content_medium==none==self==ibimage_right==Agatha Akankunda presents employment ideas at the Social Design-a-Thon in Kampala, Uganda.]Youth unemployment is one of the biggest