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Rebuilding Lives: Pakistan's policy challenges in responding to the 2010 floods

One year on from the start of devastating floods in Pakistan, this brief outlines the policy challenges which continue to hamper rehabilitation efforts.  Key issues covered include the prioritisation

Tax, privatisation and the right to education

This report brings together participatory research carried out in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Pakistan as part of the Tax, Privatisation and Right to Education multi country project.

No Place To Go

This policy brief summarises the impact of the ASEAN's economic model on gender inequality, land rights, and the environment, and offers recommendations for ASEAN to eradicate poverty and inequality

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Cultivating rural women’s economic empowerment (Asia)

Rural women remain at the margins of development, particularly regarding access to productive resources, decent work and their disproportionate burden of Unpaid Care Work.ActionAid research found that

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In memory of Nirbhaya: one year on from the Delhi bus rape has anything changed?

The case of 23-year-old Jyoti Singh – known as “Nirbhaya” or “the fearless one”– who was brutally raped on a moving bus in Delhi on December 16, 2012 and died of her injuries 13 days later, provoked

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Nepal Covid crisis: ‘Our gravest fears are turning into reality’

As Nepal reports an alarming rise in Covid-19 cases and its highest daily total of new infections, ActionAid is calling for urgent support for the country’s overwhelmed health service.  

ActionAid condemns the escalating violence in oPt and calls for an immediate end to forced evictions

ActionAid Palestine is deeply concerned over escalating violence and the violation of Palestinian rights across the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt).

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Born into fire: Violence brings mental health struggles for new mothers in Gaza

ActionAid is providing counselling to help new mothers cope with the trauma of giving birth during and after the violence, as psychologists report a rise in postpartum depression .

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Invisible women: A gender analysis of climate-induced migration in South Asia

New research exposes how women and children are disproportionally affected by climate migration, which puts them at greater risk of gender-based violence, child labour and exploitation.