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Women lead ActionAid’s response to Cyclone Amphan

This piece outlines ActionAid's humanitarian response to Cyclone Amphan which is likely to make landfall in Bangladesh in May 2020

An aerial view of Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh

Our future is in respect for natural ecosystems

This ActionAid opinion piece examines how agroecology may help to prevent further pandemics

Facilitators and Farmers outside an ActionAid agroecology school in Bangladesh

Believe in Better working paper

This is an independent working paper developed in partnership between ActionAid and the Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, supported by the Major Group for Children and Youth, and

Young people in Sudan talking about their experience in practicing democracy and their role in the political transition at the Youth Open Dialogue

ActionAid provides food support to Cyclone Amphan survivors

ActionAid’s emergency teams are supporting communities as they face the devastation caused by Cyclone Amphan, amid the rising threat of Covid-19. Women leaders and young volunteers, trained by

Devastation caused by cyclone Amphan, a flooded house and fallen trees
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ActionAid responds to COP26 delay

Harjeet Singh, global lead on climate for ActionAid, comments on the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) being delayed until 1st- 12th November 2021.

Devastation caused by cyclone Amphan

"Garment workers don’t care about catching Covid-19, their main worry is that they will starve"

Phyo leads ActionAid Myanmar’s work supporting garment workers affected by the coronavirus crisis. Here she explains why the pandemic is leaving informal workers without any means to support their

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Trump administration must stop exporting Covid-19 to Central America

As the United States resumes deportation flights to Guatemala, ActionAid is calling for an end to the Trump administration’s inhumane and disastrous policy of mass detention and expulsion of migrants

High border wall separating the US and Mexico.
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'Women and girls are living in a pressure cage'

Sharmin Akter, 21, is a case management worker for ActionAid. She supports women and girls living in the Rohingya refugee camps at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Here Sharmin explains why COVID-19 reaching

Sharmin Akhter Rina works as a Psycho Social Support Officer in a women friendly space run by ActionAid Bangladesh

Covid-19: A women-led response

ActionAid research shows how lockdowns and coronavirus restrictions have unleashed a shocking surge in gender-based violence globally.

But while violence is rising, women’s shelters are being shut

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Covid-19 crisis: IMF told countries facing critical health worker shortages to cut public sector wages

New analysis by ActionAid and Public Services International (PSI), released to mark UN Public Services Day, reveals how International Monetary Fund (IMF) austerity policies restricted critical public

A nurse in Uganda is giving a woman an injection