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New research: Blended finance for climate action - Good value for money?

During COP28 the issue of ‘blended finance’ for climate action was a major focus - particularly at the inaugural Business and Philanthropy Climate Forum. This event saw global funds – the Green

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"We are peaceful...we provide a purely medical service”: ActionAid condemns attacks after partner hospital in northern Gaza is hit by bombing 

We are horrified to learn that Al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza, run by ActionAid’s partner Al-Awda, has been hit by bombing at least three times in the last three days.

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Rebuilding from the rubble: The women holding communities together a year after the Turkey-Syria earthquake

One year on from the devastating earthquakes that hit southern Turkey and northwest Syria, killing over 55,000 people, women who have survived over 12 years of conflict and hardship, are holding

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UNRWA funding suspension: Joint letter by aid organisations

"As aid organisations, we are deeply concerned and outraged that some of the largest donors have united to suspend funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main aid provider

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UNRWA Funding Cuts: A Death Sentence for Palestinians in Gaza and Region

ActionAid, as an organisation currently providing relief and support in Gaza and the wider region, is deeply alarmed and concerned by the decision of some of the world's wealthiest nations to suspend

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As hunger reaches catastrophic levels in Gaza, people desperate for food resort to using animal feed as flour 

With every single one of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants now facing crisis or worse levels of hunger, some are so desperate for food that they are grinding up animal feed to use as flour. Famine is

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ActionAid's Response to ICJ's Ruling

ActionAid welcomes the Court's ruling affirming prima facie jurisdiction and indicating provisional measures, including the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to

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Essential aid including food and medical supplies prevented from entering Gaza, as 2.3 million people face starvation and disease 

Confusing and arbitrary rules about the type of aid permitted to enter Gaza is resulting in thousands of essential items being stopped at border crossings and prevented from reaching those who

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Women in Gaza resort to using scraps of tent in place of period products and go weeks without showering amid dire humanitarian conditions 

Women and girls in Gaza are resorting to unsafe ways of managing their periods amid a severe shortage of period products and catastrophic humanitarian conditions. ActionAid has heard that some

A woman resident of Gaza City searches the rubble for belongings in the aftermath of bombing by the Israeli army.
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After 100 days and more than 10,000 children killed, the people of Gaza ask 'Where is the world?’

This weekend marked a bleak milestone as the crisis in Gaza passed its 100th day. The level of death and destruction wrought in the territory over the last 14 weeks is unprecedented, with more than 24