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ActionAid calls on members of the UN Human Rights Council to back inquiry into rights abuses in Palestine
Ahead of a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (Friday, 9 July), ActionAid is calling on all 47 members of the council to back an independent investigation into violations of
ActionAid stands in solidarity with the people of Haiti
ActionAid International responds to the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse
ActionAid warns the green energy transition could fuel human rights abuses
As the growing popularity of electric vehicles sparks an increased demand for battery-related minerals, new research by ActionAid exposes the harmful impact of manganese mining on communities in South
G7 Summit: Global South needs more than empty rhetoric on climate finance
As G7 leaders today reaffirmed their previous commitment of $100 billion a year in climate finance, ActionAid is calling on the world's richest countries to make specific pledges of grants, not loans
G7: Climate finance must be about justice and reparations
As world leaders meet for the G7 Summit, ActionAid is calling on the world’s richest nations to meet their promise to deliver $100 billion a year* in climate finance through grants to help vulnerable
Leading Astronauts make a call to Earth ahead of the G7 summit - urging international cooperation for the sake of people and planet
Leading Astronauts from the USA, Japan and South Korea have joined forces in a new short film targeting G7 leaders, who meet this weekend in Cornwall, UK.
Their new film, titled “Call to Earth: G7”
G7: Pledges to education fund welcome, but must be matched with action on debt, tax and austerity
As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledges £430 million to improve education in the world’s poorest countries, ActionAid International welcomes new funding for the Global Partnership for Education
G7 support for pharma monopolies is putting millions of lives at risk
head of the G7 Leaders’ Summit, the People’s Vaccine Alliance warned that G7 promises to vaccinate the world by 2022 will be impossible to fulfil, if governments continue blocking proposals to waive
G7: New digital tax rules ‘woefully inadequate’ to fund Covid-19 recovery
As G7 finance ministers meet to discuss proposals for new digital tax rules, ActionAid raises concerns that the plans could trigger a race to the bottom on corporate tax rates.
UN climate negotiations must ensure COP26 does not widen loopholes on carbon markets
As governments meet for online UN climate negotiations ahead of COP26, ActionAid raises concerns that carbon markets could be used by polluters to continue ‘business as usual’ and fail to deliver the
