People’s Hearing to highlight outrageous injustices faced by Palestinians
As members of the UN Human Rights Council meet in Geneva on 14 September, ActionAid and Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq are hosting a virtual people’s hearing to highlight Israel’s
Pharmaceutical companies reaping immoral profits from Covid vaccines yet paying low tax rates
Moderna, BioNTech and Pfizer cashing in thanks to taxpayer investments, monopolies, and low taxes while leaving millions unprotected.
Leaked Pandora Papers expose urgent need to stamp out tax avoidance by wealthy and political elite
As the Pandora Papers reveal yet again the extensive use of tax havens and tax secrecy by the economic and political elite, ActionAid International calls on governments to step up their efforts to
IMF imposed austerity slashes three million frontline workers from world’s most fragile health systems
New research by ActionAid, Public Services International and Education International warns that the IMF’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermines progress on health and education.
ActionAid launches citizens’ campaign for a ban on fossil fuel advertising in Europe
ActionAid is joining more than twenty organisations in the first ever Europe-wide campaign calling for a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorships in the European Union.
Climate finance delivery plan ‘bare minimum’ needed to build trust in COP26
ActionAid responds to the launch of the UK COP Presidency’s plans to ensure countries deliver on their pledge, made in 2009, to provide $100billion a year in climate finance from 2020 to 2025.
ActionAid condemns Israel’s decision to label six Palestinian human rights groups ‘terrorist organisations’
On October 19, 2021, the Israeli Defense Ministry issued a military order declaring six Palestinian civil society organisations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory(oPt) to be labelled as “terrorist
Over 300 civil society organisations demand COP26 delivers finance for climate damages
More than 300 civil society organisations - including Climate Action Network, ActionAid International, Amnesty International, Greenpeace (global), WWF, 350.org, ITUC and PACJA - have sent an open
Five climate justice benchmarks for a successful COP26
ActionAid has identified five key climate justice benchmarks that must be met if the COP 26 climate summit is to be successful. Read more about them here.
COP26 week 1: All glitzy announcements and no real action
ActionAid International has summed up the first week of COP 26 as being all style and no substance. Read their our week one summary here.
