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Statement on the armed attack on Kasese School
On the night of Friday 16th June 2023, Lhubiriha Secondary School, in Southwestern border town of Mpondwe, Kasese district was attacked
Ministerial-level Pledging Event to Support the Humanitarian Response in Sudan and the Region
“We are deeply disappointed by today’s results at the pledging event. These results have failed to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of the people of Sudan at the intersect of growing hostilities
Branding loans as climate finance risks making vulnerable countries’ problems even worse, warns ActionAid on the eve of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris
On the eve of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris, Teresa Anderson, Global Lead on Climate Justice at ActionAid International, said:
Employment is only fair when the work is decent
Domestic work is the backbone of many societies. Cleaning, housekeeping, looking after the sick and elderly, cooking and childminding are a few of the many personal roles domestic workers perform
Dozens of people are dead and hundreds are missing a few miles from the town of Pylos, in southwestern Greece
Javier Garcia, ActionAid International’s Head of Country Engagement and Transformation for Europe and Americas, said on migrant deaths off the coast of Pylos, Greece on 14 June 2023
Communities in Western India brace themselves as over 74,000 people evacuated ahead of Cyclone Biparjoy’s landfall in India and Pakistan
Rising sea temperatures are leading to the exacerbation of tropical cyclones, resulting in long-lasting and slow-moving intense cyclones in the Arabian sea, like Cyclone Biparjoy. Loss and damage
UN climate talks this week expose a 'gaping hole' in the funding needed to pay for climate action
As SB58 UN climate talks in Bonn wrap up, Teresa Anderson, ActionAid International’s Global Lead on Climate Justice says:
Fund Our Future
At least 2 in 5 people globally (that's 3.3-3.6 billion people) are living in contexts that are highly vulnerable to the climate crisis.
Horn of Africa Pledging Conference: “Disappointing results with a devastating impact on women and girls.”
In response to the funds pledged at the High-Level Horn of Africa event in New York on Wednesday, Tinebeb Berhane, Country Director at ActionAid Ethiopia, said:
Over 36 million face hunger every day in the Horn of Africa: ActionAid calls for urgent funding
The international humanitarian organisation ActionAid is calling on the governments of Italy, Qatar, the United Kingdom, and the United States to immediately support the humanitarian response in the
