In memory of Nirbhaya: one year on from the Delhi bus rape has anything changed?
The case of 23-year-old Jyoti Singh – known as “Nirbhaya” or “the fearless one”– who was brutally raped on a moving bus in Delhi on December 16, 2012 and died of her injuries 13 days later, provoked
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Invisible women: A gender analysis of climate-induced migration in South Asia
New research exposes how women and children are disproportionally affected by climate migration, which puts them at greater risk of gender-based violence, child labour and exploitation.
Free Palestine?
This Briefing Paper catalogues some of the main violations of international law committed against the occupied Palestinian population, with a focus on the duties of Israel in its role of Occupying

Building resilient communities
This brief report looks at how ActionAid helped communities affected by Cyclone Nargis (May 2008) to build their resilience to future crises, by engaging in Disaster Risk Reduction activities.

Milking the Poor - How EU subsidies hurt dairy producers in Bangladesh
For decades, European dairy farmers have been given massive subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU). This has enabled them to export cheap milk powder, among

Milking the poor - How EU subsidies hurt dairy producers in Bangladesh
Massive subsidies in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy are putting local farmers in poor countries out of business, reveals a new report by ActionAid. Milking the poor shows how subsidised EU milk

A just peace? The legacy of war for the women of Afghanistan
October 7 2011 marks 10 years since British and American forces intervened in Afghanistan, responding to the threat to global security following the attacks of September 11 2001. At the time
Letter by 163 NGOs and trade unions to President von der Leyen on EU trade with Israel's illegal settlements
ActionAid joins over 160 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), trade unions, and civil society organizations (CSOs) in calling upon the European Union to ban trade and business with illegal Israeli

Who Owes Who?
As we enter 2025, 54 countries are in debt crisis, forced to cut their spending on basic public services and climate action in order to pay external debts. Last year, lower income countries between
