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Pakistan floods - tens of millions affected in the blink of an eye

Floods in Pakistan continue to devastate communities, with over 30 million people affected, including almost 1000 dead.

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ActionAid USA's response to Trump's statement on cutting WHO funding

Brandon Wu, Director of Policy & Campaigns at ActionAid USA responds to Donald Trump, president United States, stating he would halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Six years of talks fail to address funding needed to support survivors of climate disasters

Despite six years of negotiating, the UN process has failed to face the fact that a new funding mechanism is desperately needed to support people to recover from climate disasters.  

Community members sort through the rubble and damage left by Cyclone Idai in Ngangu township, Chimanimani, Zimbabwe.

Lack of loss and damage funding for climate disasters will damage women and girls’ rights for years to come, new report by ActionAid reveals

A new report by human rights charity ActionAid has revealed the long-term extent of climate disasters on women and girls as vulnerable countries with no access to loss and damage funding are pushed

How action on climate justice can be delivered at COP27

Ahead of the COP27 climate talks, ActionAid is setting out five climate justice benchmarks to build trust and deliver the action needed to address the Loss and Damage and Climate Justice.   

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Smallholder farmers must benefit from Covid-19 bailouts

As the UN's SOFI report on global food insecurity finds 680 million people are suffering from hunger, ActionAid warns that farmers must be recognised and supported as frontline workers to ensure

A woman farmer surveys her field, recently flooded after months of drought

COP26: Governments need to get on with making change not noise

On Nature Day at COP26, ActionAid responds as 45 countries including the UK pledge to protect biodiversity and cut emissions from agriculture. Read the response here.

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Why civil society organisations will boycott the UN’s Food Systems Summit unless there is a radical redirection away from corporate interests

Global food systems need a major overhaul. The UN Food Systems Summit is being billed as the answer – a forum to launch ‘bold new actions to transform the way the world produces and consumes food’

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Cyclone Freddy: record-breaking destruction

What’s being investigated by some as a record breaking weather event, has to others caused horror and devastation. #Cyclone Freddy has affected over 1.5 million people in Mozambique, Malawi, and

Homes destroyed by Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Phalombe southern Malawi
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COP26: It’s crunch time for governments to respond to the climate crisis

COP26: It’s crunch time for governments to respond to the climate crisis

A woman and her daughter walk through a drought-hit landscape in search of water