ActionAid’s Five Climate Justice Benchmarks for COP28
ActionAid’s expert spokespeople and youth activists from the Global South are available for interviews,
briefings, and commentary throughout COP28.
As hunger reaches catastrophic levels in Gaza, people desperate for food resort to using animal feed as flour
With every single one of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants now facing crisis or worse levels of hunger, some are so desperate for food that they are grinding up animal feed to use as flour. Famine is
Women in Gaza resort to using scraps of tent in place of period products and go weeks without showering amid dire humanitarian conditions
Women and girls in Gaza are resorting to unsafe ways of managing their periods amid a severe shortage of period products and catastrophic humanitarian conditions. ActionAid has heard that some
Essential aid including food and medical supplies prevented from entering Gaza, as 2.3 million people face starvation and disease
Confusing and arbitrary rules about the type of aid permitted to enter Gaza is resulting in thousands of essential items being stopped at border crossings and prevented from reaching those who
After 100 days and more than 10,000 children killed, the people of Gaza ask 'Where is the world?’
This weekend marked a bleak milestone as the crisis in Gaza passed its 100th day. The level of death and destruction wrought in the territory over the last 14 weeks is unprecedented, with more than 24
Taxing windfall profits of fossil fuels and financial companies can boost climate finance
As millionaires and billionaires fly into Davos this week to discuss the state of the world, efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change are desperately underfunded. Long-term solutions to ensure
UNRWA Funding Cuts: A Death Sentence for Palestinians in Gaza and Region
ActionAid, as an organisation currently providing relief and support in Gaza and the wider region, is deeply alarmed and concerned by the decision of some of the world's wealthiest nations to suspend
ActionAid's Response to ICJ's Ruling
ActionAid welcomes the Court's ruling affirming prima facie jurisdiction and indicating provisional measures, including the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to
Rebuilding from the rubble: The women holding communities together a year after the Turkey-Syria earthquake
One year on from the devastating earthquakes that hit southern Turkey and northwest Syria, killing over 55,000 people, women who have survived over 12 years of conflict and hardship, are holding
Intensifying attacks in Rafah would have disastrous consequences, ActionAid warns, as people resort to eating grass amid desperate conditions in overcrowded shelters
Amid fears of a coming ground invasion in Rafah, ActionAid is warning that any intensification in attacks on the governate – which is now home to more than half the entire population of Gaza – would
