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
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:
Standing up for our Rights: Feminist Insights from the Ukraine Response
The response to Russia’s military assault to Ukraine is yet another example of how the international system fails to acknowledge and promote the incredible work of civil society organisations like
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
World Day Against Child Labour: How ActionAid is Fighting Back on Child Labour
In 2020, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimated that approximately 160 million children worldwide were trapped in child labour with 79 million of these performing hazardous forms of
What's #HerStory?
From an early age, Mehuba, from Ethiopia, was forced to work by her father. Today, she is a successful business owner and creates jobs for other women. Mehuba's story clearly illustrates the drivers
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
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
Fund our Future for a Just World
This World Environment Day, ActionAid organised mobilisations around the world to call for a feminist, just transition to a world free of fossil fuels and industrial agriculture.
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:
