Manganese Matters
ActionAid and Dutch NGO Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)’s new report, Manganese Matters, finds that the increased demand for manganese for batteries is posing a serious threat
Surviving climate change – Hilda’s story
This is the story of Hilda. Hilda lives in rural Zimbabwe and her community was devastated by Cyclone Idai. Read about how Hilda worked to rebuild her community and watch her short video.
Doubly Devastating: Local communities disproportionately affected by food, fuel, and fertiliser price rises
The fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is being felt globally as disruption to supply from two of the world’s major exporters of wheat, maize, fuel and fertiliser is causing prices to soar.
As rains fail, families in rural Kenya face perilous levels of hunger and thirst
Rains have failed for the third consecutive season in vast areas of arid and semi-arid lands in Kenya. ActionAid Kenya’s communications manager Fridah Bwari on how drought is devastating family
Your funding of climate-wrecking projects is robbing us of livelihoods and homes, communities tell global banks as AGM season kicks off
As major global banks Barclays, HSBC, and Citibank hold their Annual General Meetings (AGMs)
ActionAid hails loss and damage fund outcome at COP27 as victory for people living on the front lines of climate disasters
A decision at COP27 to establish a loss and damage fund for communities living on the front lines of climate disasters has been hailed a victory by climate justice organisation ActionAid.
Women disproportionately impacted by climate change must have their voices heard at COP27, says ActionAid International
On ‘Gender Day’ at COP27, ActionAid is calling on world leaders to put the voices of women and girls from the Global South living through the reality of the climate crisis at the heart of COP27
Respecting, protecting, fulfilling the right to food in times of Covid-19
This post by Ruchi Tripathi, head of resilient livelihoods and climate justice, ActionAid International, looks at the systemic failures of the international economic system in relation to food
Stop Funding Destruction and Begin to #FundOurFuture
ActionAid today launched the Fund Our Future campaign during the People's Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya and published a report naming and shaming the biggest banks investing in fossil fuels and
US and EU owe more than half the cost of repairing future damage caused by climate disasters
New analysis sets out how much responsibility the wealthy countries behind the climate crisis must take for the devastating impact that rising global temperatures are already having on developing
