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

Colonial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have no place in the 21st century and unless they are overhauled

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Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to launch Middle East Humanitarian Appeal

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is launching a Middle East Humanitarian Appeal to raise urgent funds for people whose lives are being devastated by conflict. 

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The Palestinian youth network shielding Gaza from unexploded ordnances - “People who do not lose their lives or body parts [in the war], might lose their lives or body parts while playing near them.”

More than a year into the conflict, the Israeli military’s intense and extensive bombing campaign has left Gaza littered with an estimated 37 million tonnes of debris.

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ActionAid statement on Gaza strip IPC acute food insecurity and malnutrition report

ActionAid is deeply alarmed by the findings of the latest IPC report, which warns that the Gaza Strip is on the brink of famine.

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Solidarity Statement by ActionAid General Assembly and Country Directors

We, leaders of ActionAid International, attending a Joint Session under the theme, Building Global Solidarity for Unity, Justice, and Peace in Palestine, 

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LEBANON: Women in shelters forced to manage their periods with black bags 

Women displaced by attacks by Israeli forces in Lebanon are being forced to use scraps of cloth and plastic bags in place of period products, an ActionAid partner has said. 

The time is up for coy talk from developed countries - we need trillions of dollars for climate finance, says ActionAid

Today government ministers met in Baku, Azerbaijan, for a high-level ministerial dialogue to try to make progress towards the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance, to be agreed at COP29

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Urgent Statement from ActionAid on the Forced Evacuation of Hospitals in Northern Gaza

We are gravely alarmed by the latest directive from the Israeli Army, which, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, orders the full evacuation of Awda, Indonesian, and Kamal Adwan hospitals in

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"I just wish that the war would end now”: Women in Gaza on the devastating toll of 12 months of crisis

Women in Gaza have told ActionAid of the devastating impact 12 months of war has taken on their lives.

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“We are alive but have lost everything we depended on to survive.” Communities fighting to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of Nepal’s devastating floods

As Nepal comes to terms with the devastating impacts of the flooding that swept across the country last week – ActionAid has heard from families struggling to recover from the destruction and