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G77 loss and damage funding proposal is ‘clear and sensible’, and developed countries need to stop delaying, says ActionAid
Women disproportionately impacted by climate change must have their voices heard at COP27, says ActionAid
COP27 Youth and Future Generations Day: Youth activists demand a seat at the table
EU Parliament increases pressure on COP27 ‘to take responsibility and act with compassion in the face of the climate crisis.’
Climate crisis to blame for high rates of cholera, says ActionAid
New report exposes the extent of IMF’s ‘pink washing’
Millions of dollars set to be invested in developing an anti-racist public education system in Brazil
Part 1: For a livable planet, we need to stop TIAA’s land grabbing and greenwashing
ActionAid: We must come together to ensure a safe return for Rohingya refugees
“Increasingly difficult to bridge the divide”: ActionAid reflects on six months into the humanitarian response to the Ukraine crisis
One year on: Afghans deserve better
Human rights must be top priority for the new U.S. Ambassador to the UN agencies in Rome
ActionAid USA reacts to the election of Joe Biden as 46th President of the United States of America
Each other’s keepers: a case for Ugandan-U.S. solidarity
Vote, if only for someone who can’t
Inclusive democracy and electoral accountability: perspectives from women and young people
Democracy is about people’s power
Street protest might be what saves our democracy
Show Up, Fight Back: unpacking dispossession, displacement, and duo economic and climate crises
The U.S. is exporting coronavirus to its southern neighbors
Coronavirus and the food system: a shock in logistics, not supply
Global Coronavirus Relief
Seven ways to #BeBold this Giving Tuesday
The Next Decade Could Determine if Family Farms Survive
Palestinian Rights are Human Rights: Commemorating Nakba Day
Trump’s New Women’s Empowerment Initiative: Simply Incoherent or Downright Disingenuous
Why David Malpass as World Bank Chief Would Reinforce Global Inequalities
U.S. Policies at the Border and Beyond Killed Jakelin Caal
This Photo from California Fires Shows Why We Need to Transform the Industrial Food and Farming System Now
Here Are Three Things We Achieved Together in 2018
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Rohingya Refugees Sent Back to Myanmar, Fishermen Suing Fossil Fuel Companies, and LGBTQ Rights in Costa Rica
Support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Rural People to Realize the Right to Food
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Women in Agriculture, Ethiopia’s First Female President, and Tax Free Sanitary Products
Connecting Land Rights, Migration and Human Rights on Capitol Hill
International Community Development Means Fighting Colonialism and Supporting Grassroots Initiatives
Joining Farmworkers, Farmers and Food Justice Activists to Stand for the Right to Food
Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, and Food Security in Guatemala: It’s Time For Governments to be Accountable
Trump Weaponizes Childhood Food Assistance in Violation of the Human Right to Food
Right to Food: What It Is and Why We Support It
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Sami People Fight for Rights, FGM Crackdown, Gazans Resist Blockade
The Number of Refugees Allowed into U.S. Hits Lowest Ceiling in Four Decades
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Palestinian Roof Gardens, Swedish Election, and Venezuelans Fleeing Shortages
Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Land Is a Basic Human Right
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe Election, Global Wildfires, and Youth Voter Registration on the Rise
Rising Up Against Violence: #BringTheNoise Protest Has My Vote
Trump Is Turning His Back on People Experiencing Poverty and Hunger
ActionAid Stands Against State-Sponsored Kidnapping – and All Forms of Unjust Immigration Enforcement
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Cicig, House Farm Bill Fails, Mushroom Revolution
“Never Again” Means Never Again, Period
A Day of Catastrophe for the Palestinian People
ActionAid Response to Opening of U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem
Embassy Opening in Jerusalem Shows U.S. Turning Blind Eye to Plight of Palestinians
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Palestinians Plan Bigger Protests, New Climate Doc, Feminist Favela
For Indigenous Leaders in Guatemala, Defending Their Land Can Mean Jail Time
Global Governments Aren’t Embracing Agroecology – Here’s Why They Should
Malaysian Palm Oil Lobbyists Ecstatic at Misguided Guardian Article
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: More Women in Gaza Protests, Puerto Rico Blackout, South Sudan’s Farmers Innovate
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Palestinians, Cambodians Claim Land Rights
Immigrant Youth Shouldn’t Be Detained: Patricia Zermeño
World Bank Program Forcing Local Communities Off Their Land
What Does the World Do with One Million Stateless Rohingya People?
Palm Oil Pays for Human Rights Abuses, Land Grabbing, and Corruption
Still Looking Forward on Climate
State of the Union: Why I Won’t Be Watching
Agribusiness Giant Cargill Suspends Contract with Controversial Guatemalan Palm Oil Producer Over Environmental and Human Rights Violations
Finding Safety in a Little Wooden Shack
Human Rights Work in Pakistan Under Threat
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Manus Island Refugee Protest, Banksy’s Tea Party in Palestine, Brazil’s Indigenous Rappers on Land Rights
This ­World Food Day, Stand Up for the Right to Food
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Schools in Sierra Leone Re-open, Trudeau Addresses Colonization at UN, Philippines’ LGBTQ Rights Bill
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Jordan’s ‘Marry the Rapist’ Law, Farmer Suicides in India and a Saudi Women’s Music Video
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: The Gambia’s President Returns, India’s #IWillGoOut March, and Women in Egypt Take the Wheel
Why We Support Women Around the World to Claim Their Full Range of Sexual and Reproductive Rights – Including Abortions
5 Reasons Rex Tillerson Shouldn’t Be the Next Secretary of State
ActionAid USA Reaction to Inauguration of President Donald Trump
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Haiti Quake Anniversary, Tillerson Hearing, Cambodia’s Black Monday Campaign
Why We Oppose Big Oil Boss Tillerson as Secretary of State
Is Your Pension Fund Grabbing Farmland and Violating People’s Rights?
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: South Africa, Guatemalan Refugees & Malala Yousafzai
Guatemalan Palm Oil Activist’s Killers Still At Large A Year After His Death
My House Was Destroyed So I Live in a Cave
One Minute With Daniel Pascual, Leader in the Guatemala Indigenous Rights Movement
They can’t kill Berta Caceres
Activists Demand Justice for Killing of Guatemalan Environmental Defender
Guatemalan Activist Murdered Protesting Chemical Leak from Palm Oil Plant