What can we expect from the new European Parliament and EU leadership?
Newly elected MEPs will begin their legislative term for 2024-2029, with the far-right gaining influence but failing to form a majority, while the former pro-EU majority remains intact despite losses
European Finance Flows fuelling the climate crisis: The role of Article 2.1c under the UNFCCC
As the EU calls on COP28 climate negotiations to make progress on stopping climate-harming finance flows, its own financial industry continues to fund fossil fuels and other carbon intensive sectors
“I suffered a lot during pregnancy...due to [the] lack of food”: Gaza’s pregnant women go hungry amid severe food shortages as humanitarian crisis deepens
Pregnant women in Gaza are going hungry amid severe food shortages
Over 50 NGOs pen eleventh-hour open letter to EU on human rights risks in Migration Pact
An open letter to negotiators in the European Commission, the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and the European Parliament ahead of the final negotiations on the EU Pact on
Fair taxes can raise over US$2 trillion yearly for climate-vulnerable communities, says new ActionAid report amid Bonn finance talks
Implementing fair taxes can help the world raise more than US$2 trillion yearly
“What I saw in the streets is not a government that wants to listen, but to kill its people.” Young people recount horrific experiences of police brutality during Kenya tax protests
ActionAid shares testimonies from young people, who were brutalised in Kenya while protesting the Finance Bill
Beyond borders, beyond boundaries
In recent years, the European Union (EU) and its Member States have intensified their effort to prevent migrants and asylum seekers from reaching their borders. One strategy to reach this goal
Aid groups call on the international community as civilians continue to pay the price of inaction in eastern DR Congo
In the latest episode of a resurgence in conflict and violence in eastern DR Congo, hundreds of thousands of people have been forcibly displaced as civilians, civilian infrastructure and NGO staff and
Kenya's ill-advised tax increases illustrate IMF's failed policies, ActionAid says
The recent protests in Kenya against the Finance Bill (2024) show the shortcomings of the International Monetary Fund’s policy advice in Africa, ActionAid says.
Rise in injured patients arriving at Al-Awda Hospital following Gaza City attacks, as facility faces urgent need for medical supplies and fuel
Staff at Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza say they have received an influx of injured patients from Gaza City in recent days since the Israeli military ramped up its attacks on the area.