Women disproportionately impacted by climate change must have their voices heard at COP27, says ActionAid International
On ‘Gender Day’ at COP27, ActionAid is calling on world leaders to put the voices of women and girls from the Global South living through the reality of the climate crisis at the heart of COP27
ActionAid hails loss and damage fund outcome at COP27 as victory for people living on the front lines of climate disasters
A decision at COP27 to establish a loss and damage fund for communities living on the front lines of climate disasters has been hailed a victory by climate justice organisation ActionAid.
Dozens of people are dead and hundreds are missing a few miles from the town of Pylos, in southwestern Greece
Javier Garcia, ActionAid International’s Head of Country Engagement and Transformation for Europe and Americas, said on migrant deaths off the coast of Pylos, Greece on 14 June 2023
ActionAid calls for reforms to the IMF’s voting share structure, as the EU supports the Managing Director’s second-term bid
The announcement by European governments supporting a second term for the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, is a slap in the face of efforts to make the
50 Million People Trapped in Modern Slavery
A recent UN report ‘Global Estimates of Modern Slavery’ which shows that the number of people trapped in forced labour and forced marriage have increased significantly in the last five years to an
Stop Funding Destruction and Begin to #FundOurFuture
ActionAid today launched the Fund Our Future campaign during the People's Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya and published a report naming and shaming the biggest banks investing in fossil fuels and
‘Zambia’s bondholders must demonstrate a measure of humanity’
Reacting to news that bondholders today have rejected Zambia's last-ditch effort to avoid plunging into default, ActionAid is calling for urgent debt cancellation to prevent the suffering of millions
ActionAid reaction to relocation of COP25 climate negotiations to Madrid, Spain
"The shifting of COP25 from Chile to Madrid with only four weeks’ notice presents real barriers to participation for countries from the global South and civil society."
Ministerial-level Pledging Event to Support the Humanitarian Response in Sudan and the Region
“We are deeply disappointed by today’s results at the pledging event. These results have failed to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of the people of Sudan at the intersect of growing hostilities
Statement on killing of Sub-Saharan migrants at the Spanish border
On the occasion of their 2022 annual meeting held in Madrid from 29-30 June, representatives to ActionAid’s General Assembly endorsed the following statement about the killing of migrants and asylum
