Costs of climate inaction: displacement and distress migration
More than 62 million South Asian people will be forced to migrate from their homes due to climate disasters by 2050, according to new research from ActionAid International and Climate Action Network
Principles for Just Transitions in Extractives and Agriculture: Shaping energy and food systems that work for women, communities and the climate
Efforts to address the climate emergency and limit global warming require fundamental and rapid change in our energy and food systems.
ActionAid issues urgent appeal for more ambitious climate plans ahead of UN deadline for Paris agreement submissions
ActionAid is calling for increased ambition to limit global warming to 1.5°C and to support vulnerable nations as the UN deadline for governments’ plans to tackle climate change is fast approaching on
‘I live in fear everyday of losing everything’
More than 2,400 villagers from the Garithe community in Kenya’s Marereni Salt Belt, are fighting for their right to continue living on 800 acres of their ancestral land which they have lived and
'I have hopes that we will have our land back'
More than 2,400 people are locked in a legal battle with a salt mining company. The Garithe community in Kenya’s Marereni Salt Belt are fighting for their right to continue living and working on
'They came like a thief, demolished and destroyed the place'
Villagers from Garithe In Kenya's Marereni Salt Belt are fighting for their right to continue living and working on nearly 800 acres of land they have farmed for generations. Dickson Kenga, a palm
‘Our village was filled with palm trees, but now they’re all dead’
Kahaso Charo, 60, is a farmer who has lived near Garithe in Kenya’s Salt Belt since 2015. Her once fertile farmland is now being polluted by the salt mining company, Kurawa Salt, which recently moved
ActionAid Zambia: Mining companies must not be allowed to pollute with impunity
Konkola Copper Mines – a subsidiary of the UK-based mining giant Vedanta – has been polluting the main water source of surrounding villages in Chingola, in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province, and leaving a
Public policies that advance or hinder rural women’s and young people’s livelihoods and climate justice for all
ActionAid seeks a major paradigm shift to tackle the global climate emergency and gender equality crisis. The discussion paper highlights the key policies that hinder and enable rural women and young
World Bank and IMF mark 75th anniversary amid rising global hunger, the climate crisis and corporate human rights abuses
ActionAid's international director of programmes and global engagement reflects on 75 years of the IMF and World Bank, ahead of their annual meetings, which coincide with the Committee on World Food
