She had never imagined herself campaigning against violence towards women. And yet she is one of the most active champions of women’s rights in the province of South Kivu. Solange Kasiba Ngobobo, a...
Five years ago, 35 year old Amie Jallow, a mother of six, found out she had HIV. Since then she has learned to live positively with the support of ActionAid supported project in Gambia.
Zenia Reuben is a farmer from Mwanza, Malawi who grows maize, pumpkins, sorghum, pigeon peas and beans. In Mwanza, land is owned by women - men do not own land as they leave their own villages...
Sakina is a a field labourer in a small settlement called Basti Ahmad Dab in Punjab, Pakistan - after separating from her husband many years ago, she raised their only daughter Irfana, now 16, as a...
Today I joined Lawrence from our Marafa office to see the women’s rights awareness-raising work he and his team are doing with the local communities in this part of Kenya’s coast region.The meetings...
Driving into the port city of Hai Phong, Vietnam’s third most populous city, I was struck by how organised everything seemed. From the wide, clean, not-particularly-crowded roads, the industrial...
Last year’s Gender Action Plan consultation was a joke. The only EU consultation on gender that civil society was allowed to attend represented everything that consultations shouldn’t be – a group of...
In Liberia, women face an unprecedented amount of discrimination. Korto Williams, country director for ActionAid Liberia, describes the daily challenges and how we are working to meet them.Liberia’...
