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At least 2 in 5 people globally (that's 3.3-3.6 billion people) are living in contexts that are highly vulnerable to the climate crisis.

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Arthur Larok

Arthur Larok is the Secretary General, ActionAid International

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Opinion

Why Decolonising the Financing of Education is Key to Solving the Education Crisis

This week over 10 million people will mobilise to call for the decolonisation of education financing.

Arthur Larok

The Gambia: Agroecology

Climate disasters are destroying the lives and livelihoods of millions of people worldwide. Fossil fuels and industrial agriculture are fuelling the destruction of our planet, driving up carbon

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Palestinian Refugee Youth to Commemorate 75th Anniversary of Nakba by showing Solidarity with Residents of Masafer Yatta

Hebron-West Bank –Palestinian refugee youth commemorated the 75th anniversary of Nakba by visiting Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank which is at risk of forced evictions and forcible

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Over 36 million face hunger every day in the Horn of Africa: ActionAid calls for urgent funding

The international humanitarian organisation ActionAid is calling on the governments of Italy, Qatar, the United Kingdom, and the United States to immediately support the humanitarian response in the

Horn of Africa Pledging Conference: “Disappointing results with a devastating impact on women and girls.” 

In response to the funds pledged at the High-Level Horn of Africa event in New York on Wednesday, Tinebeb Berhane, Country Director at ActionAid Ethiopia, said: 

Halimo Ahmed Yusuf, a pregnant mother from Ceel-Dheere, Somaliland
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Standing up for our Rights: Feminist Insights from the Ukraine Response

The response to Russia’s military assault to Ukraine is yet another example of how the international system fails to acknowledge and promote the incredible work of civil society organisations like

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Employment is only fair when the work is decent  

Domestic work is the backbone of many societies. Cleaning, housekeeping, looking after the sick and elderly, cooking and childminding are a few of the many personal roles domestic workers perform

Zinet, Mulu, and Shibash (left to right) Combatting modern slavery project

World Day Against Child Labour: How ActionAid is Fighting Back on Child Labour

In 2020, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimated that approximately 160 million children worldwide were trapped in child labour with 79 million of these performing hazardous forms of

Mehuba is a return migrant worker from the Middle East and child labour survivor