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G7: Climate finance must be about justice and reparations

As world leaders meet for the G7 Summit, ActionAid is calling on the world’s richest nations to meet their promise to deliver $100 billion a year* in climate finance through grants to help vulnerable

The climate crisis is pushing the women farmers of Buzi to the brink.
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G7: Pledges to education fund welcome, but must be matched with action on debt, tax and austerity

As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledges £430 million to improve education in the world’s poorest countries, ActionAid International welcomes new funding for the Global Partnership for Education

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G7 Summit: Global South needs more than empty rhetoric on climate finance

As G7 leaders today reaffirmed their previous commitment of $100 billion a year in climate finance, ActionAid is calling on the world's richest countries to make specific pledges of grants, not loans

Women farmers wade through flooded rice fields in Mozambique

ActionAid warns the green energy transition could fuel human rights abuses

As the growing popularity of electric vehicles sparks an increased demand for battery-related minerals, new research by ActionAid exposes the harmful impact of manganese mining on communities in South

Tuduetso Sebake is a community activist for ActionAid partner Women Affected by Mining United in Action (WAMUA)
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ActionAid stands in solidarity with the people of Haiti

ActionAid International responds to the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse

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ActionAid calls on members of the UN Human Rights Council to back inquiry into rights abuses in Palestine

Ahead of a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (Friday, 9 July), ActionAid is calling on all 47 members of the council to back an independent investigation into violations of

Samah Kassab, senior programme officer at ActionAid Palestine, stands among the devastation caused by Israeli airstrikes in the most recent escalation of violence.
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Game of two halves – football finals offer ray of hope in Europe while Uganda turns stadium into Covid-19 hospital

Number of Ugandans fully vaccinated equivalent to less than 5% of Wembley stadium capacity.

The Mandela National Stadium, on the outskirts of Kampala, is being kitted out with enough beds to treat over a thousand COVID patients.
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ActionAid responds to humanitarian and hunger crisis in Southern Tigray

Women are leading ActionAid’s emergency response in Ethiopia’s Tigray region where communities are facing severe food shortages, conflict and widespread violence against women and girls.

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ActionAid responds to new UN numbers showing rising global hunger

As UN agencies today release new figures showing how the Covid-19 pandemic is driving rising levels of hunger globally, ActionAid is calling for small-scale food producers to be central to developing

Women from Tungan Nasara community carry their relief packages that they received as part of ActionAid Nigeria's Covid-19 response..
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Women and children most at risk as climate change and conflict drive migration in Afghanistan

As rising insecurity and conflict engulf Afghanistan in the wake of the US and NATO troops withdrawal, new ActionAid research highlights the hidden crisis facing women and children forced to flee the

A girl stands in Shaiday refugee camp near Herat, which is home to 42,000 families.