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U.S.-Kenya FTA and the rights to land and food

In climate talks, rich countries are getting away with murder

ActionAid USA Announces a Transition of Executive Leadership

ActionAid USA Response to Climate Action Now Act

Green New Deal: What it Is and What it Isn’t

“I Want You to Panic”: Why Today’s Protests Matter

Supporter Spotlight: Baker Elementary Fundraises For Disaster Response

Trump’s New Women’s Empowerment Initiative: Simply Incoherent or Downright Disingenuous

ActionAid USA Response to Green New Deal Resolution

U.S. Policies at the Border and Beyond Killed Jakelin Caal

ActionAid Responds to U.S. Coal Side Event at COP24

This Photo from California Fires Shows Why We Need to Transform the Industrial Food and Farming System Now

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Poor Diets, Venezuelan Refugees, and More Women in Congress

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Venice Floods, North Carolina Joins Paris Agreement, and Oceans Absorb Heat

International Community Development Means Fighting Colonialism and Supporting Grassroots Initiatives

Joining Farmworkers, Farmers and Food Justice Activists to Stand for the Right to Food

Trump Weaponizes Childhood Food Assistance in Violation of the Human Right to Food

Right to Food: What It Is and Why We Support It

The Number of Refugees Allowed into U.S. Hits Lowest Ceiling in Four Decades

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Heat Days, World Hunger Spike, and Hurricane Florence

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Pacific Trash Vortex Cleanup, Women’s Test Scores Lowered, and First Muslim Woman in Congress

Trump Nominates Monsanto Seed Producer and Biofuels Baron as UN Ambassador for Food Security and Agriculture

Rising Up Against Violence: #BringTheNoise Protest Has My Vote

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Costa Rica Fossil-Free Goal, Antarctica’s First Pride Party, Baltimore’s Arabbers Keep Tradition Alive

Trump’s Racist Immigration Policies Ignore the Real Causes of Migration from Central America

Trump Announces Changes to Biofuels Policy, but only Big Companies Benefit

5 Reasons Pompeo is Unfit to Be Secretary of State

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Linda Brown Dies and Leaves Powerful Legacy, Brazilian Sports Reporters Fight Sexual Harassment, La Borinqueña to the Rescue

Immigrant Youth Shouldn’t Be Detained: Patricia Zermeño

Still Looking Forward on Climate

State of the Union: Why I Won’t Be Watching

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zambia’s Cholera Crisis, Immigration Crackdown Increases Money Transfers from US to Mexico, Public Wi-Fi in Zimbabwe

New Investigation into U.S. Renewable Fuels Policies Finds “Green” Biodiesel Producers Driving Massive Deforestation

Agribusiness Giant Cargill Suspends Contract with Controversial Guatemalan Palm Oil Producer Over Environmental and Human Rights Violations

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Wildfires Affect Farmworkers, South Sudanese Women Want Peace, Syrian Teen Wins Peace Prize

ActionAid Reaction to EPA’s Renewable Volume Obligations for 2018

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Political Crisis, Plastic Pollution in the Philippines, #StopLine3

Making Sense of the Many Faces of the United States at the UN Climate Talks

UN Climate Negotiations Kick Off: What to Look For

ActionAid USA Reacts to Sam Clovis’ Withdrawal from USDA Nomination

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Ugandan Students Fight Early Marriage, No Fireworks in New Delhi, Refugees and New Yorkers Dine Together

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Pakistan Floods, Ghanaian Farmers Demand Land Rights, Atlanta’s Pianos for Peace

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Niger’s “Husband Schools”, Climate Gentrification in Little Haiti, Chile Relaxes Abortion Ban

ActionAid Reaction to EPA Announcement on Renewable Volume Obligations for 2018

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Sustainable Farming in Indonesia, Haitian Students Learn Better in Creole, and the Tear Down This Wall! Music Festival

The U.S., Nicaragua and Syria: Out of the Paris Agreement, but for Very Different Reasons

3 Things You May Have Missed: Vietnamese Villagers Fight for Land Rights, Aspiring Female Carmaker in Sudan, Going to School on the US-Mexico Border

#WhyWeMarch – Climate Justice Demands and the People’s Climate March

Trump’s First 100 Days – Crisis, Resistance and Opportunity

104,481 and Counting: Calling on TIAA to Stop Investing in Land Grabs

Activists and clients tell TIAA to stop investments linked to deforestation and displacement of local farmers

Pension Funds Are Trying to Control Our Food Supply – with Our Money

ActionAid Reaction to Executive Orders Targeting the Environmental Protection Agency and Climate Change Policies

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Doctors Test Ebola Vaccine, KXL Is Approved, Baseball in Gaza

Trump Agriculture Nominee Perdue Avoided Taxes by Speculating in Swampland

ActionAid Statement on Sonny Perdue’s Confirmation Hearing as Agriculture Secretary

Reaction to the Trump administration’s budget blueprint and proposal to end payments to global climate programs

Why I’m Decolonizing My Life and Following Our Native Leaders

“Muslim Ban 2.0” Underlines Politics of Division

ActionAid USA Reaction to Address to Joint Session of Congress

Selling Off Their Own Land: Brazil and US Turn Land Grabbing Into National Policy

Trump’s Budget Proposal: No Surprise, but Resistance Is a Must

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Horn of Africa Drought, #NODAPL Camp Evacuation, Syrian Women Call for Release of Detainees

Dirty Energy Companies Get Their Man at the EPA

ActionAid Reaction to Confirmation of Scott Pruitt as E.P.A. Administrator

Trump Is Expanding What Is Considered “Criminal” to Include the Entire Undocumented Immigrant Community

Even Your Own House Is at Risk From Climate Change, Mr. Trump

Trump’s Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination Must be Stopped

Protests Set to Restart as Army Gives Dakota Access Pipeline Go Ahead

Food and Farm Groups Oppose Andrew Puzder for Labor Secretary

Keep Fossil Fuels Out of Trump’s #SwampCabinet

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

Trump’s Immigration and Border Policies: Trapping People in a Pressure Cooker

Trump Bows to Big Oil and Gas, Green Lights Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines

If you eat food or drink water, you should be worried about Sonny Perdue as Ag Secretary

#WhyIMarch: Why I Joined the Women’s March on Washington

ActionAid USA Reaction to Inauguration of President Donald Trump

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: The Gambia State of Emergency, Obama Administration Sends $500m to Climate Fund, Indian Anti-Trafficking Activists Win Award