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Safety with Dignity

ActionAid has been pioneering and evolving community-based protection efforts in times of crisis since 2005. The Women-Led Community-Based Protection (WLCBP) approach is our default strategy for

A member of the ActionAid Women First Responders Network assisting a survivor during the initial assessment stage of ActionAid's response to the August 2021 earthquake.

ActionAid calls for a feminist response to corporate abuse as new report exposes persecution and mistreatment of women in four communities

• A new report from ActionAid reveals shocking corporate abuse of women from communities in Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Guatemala.
• The report, released ahead of the 8th session of negotiations of

Photographer: Patrick Onen (A woman at a sugarcane plantation in Kiryandongo, Uganda)

Why ActionAid is working to tackle modern slavery     

Attention must be dedicated to upholding human rights in the world of work.  

Modern slavery

Climate crisis to blame for high rates of cholera, says ActionAid

After years of declining cholera cases, ActionAid has become increasingly concerned about the ‘worrying upsurge’ of deadly outbreaks which have emerged across the world over the past year – including

Cholera Kit Distribution - Foyer Monfort, Mariani.
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Humanitarian action: Women responding, but outside the system 

ActionAid attended Women, Peace and Security Week (WPS) in New York from October 17-21st with partners and women’s rights organisations for their work supporting women’s resilience and leadership in

Panel at WPS

“The climate crisis is growing, and here in Bangladesh we feel its ferocity”

ActionAid is highly concerned about cyclone Sitrang, which is very likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm as it gathers pace over the Bay of Bengal.

The storm is now approaching land and it

How action on climate justice can be delivered at COP27

Ahead of the COP27 climate talks, ActionAid is setting out five climate justice benchmarks to build trust and deliver the action needed to address the Loss and Damage and Climate Justice.   

Climate justice march

Lack of loss and damage funding for climate disasters will damage women and girls’ rights for years to come, new report by ActionAid reveals

A new report by human rights charity ActionAid has revealed the long-term extent of climate disasters on women and girls as vulnerable countries with no access to loss and damage funding are pushed

men and boys at an IDP camp Somaliland,
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The Long Shadow of the Climate Crisis

In 2022 climate disasters have taken on a new scale and horror. Four seasons without rainfall have left a “biblical” drought and unprecedented hunger across Eastern Africa. Devastating floods in