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ActionAid statement on New Global Financial Pact Summit

Climate finance is not only about making climate action fair, it’s about making climate action possible. The financial system needs to be totally transformed to help countries drowning in climate

Teresa Anderson, COP27 protest  CAPTION, FULL DESCRIPTION AND QUOTES ActionAid staff and activist protest at COP27 campaigning for a loss and damage funding facility.
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Ministerial-level Pledging Event to Support the Humanitarian Response in Sudan and the Region

“We are deeply disappointed by today’s results at the pledging event. These results have failed to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of the people of Sudan at the intersect of growing hostilities

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Indonesia Earthquake aftermath, scenes of hope, despair - and grief

A trail of death and destruction was left by this earthquake, which had a magnitude of 5.6, which was much weaker than many others that had hit Indonesia recently. Why does this one differ so much

ActionAid responds to the magnitude 5.7 earthquake which struck on 3rd December
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From floods to financial strain: Liza’s journey through the climate crisis and price rises

ActionAid’s new and more detailed research has found that families are spending up to nine times what they paid almost 18 months ago for food, fuel, and fertilizer. While global prices have dropped by

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The ripple effects of rising prices and the climate crisis: Shazida’s story

ActionAid’s new and more detailed research has found that families are spending up to nine times what they paid almost 18 months ago for food, fuel, and fertilizer. While global prices have dropped by

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From floods and price spikes to agroecology: Martha’s story

ActionAid’s new and more detailed research has found that families are spending up to nine times what they paid almost 18 months ago for food, fuel, and fertilizer. While global prices have dropped by

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Statement on the armed attack on Kasese School 

On the night of Friday 16th June 2023, Lhubiriha Secondary School, in Southwestern border town of Mpondwe, Kasese district was attacked

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Big business’ windfall profits rocket to “obscene” $1 trillion a year amid cost-of-living crisis; Oxfam and ActionAid renew call for windfall taxes    

722 of the world’s biggest corporations together raked in over $1 trillion in windfall profits each year for the past two years amid soaring prices and interest rates, while billions of people are

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ActionAid report: Food and fuel prices skyrocket up to tenfold in the world’s most marginalized communities since the war in Ukraine

The cost of food, fuel, and fertilizer in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities is continuing to escalate to crisis levels since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with families spending up to

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Fighting for justice in the workplace

On the fourth anniversary of the ILO Violence and Harassment Convention (ILO C190), we are spotlighting ActionAid's incredible campaigning and fight for a world free from violence and harassment in