ActionAid strengthens resilience as Cyclone Freddy death toll rises in Malawi
On the launch of the Santiago Declaration for Public Services, ActionAid joins hundreds of organizations to demand ‘Our Future is Public’
16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence against women: ActionAid urges governments to end all forms of femicide.
Draft COP27 cover note is a ‘letdown which urgently needs saving’, says ActionAid International
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
ActionAid calls out US claims that carbon markets will fulfill climate goals
ActionAid responds to Net Zero recommendations at COP27
ActionAid responds to the decision to include loss and damage funding on agenda at COP27
Nearly 150 Organizations Call on U.S. Government to Support a Loss and Damage Finance Facility at COP27
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
Famine announcement will be too little too late in East Africa
Demand U.S. officials protect reproductive health rights!
European heatwaves – a glimpse into the Global South’s reality
East Africa Food Crisis: “Now the world is ending”
Climate crisis fuels drought and severe hunger across the Horn of Africa
ActionAid responds to humanitarian and hunger crisis in Southern Tigray
U.S.-Kenya FTA and the rights to land and food
Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, visits ActionAid South Africa to learn more about work on women’s rights
Farmers Building Resilience to Climate Change in The Gambia
Ebola in DRC: ActionAid’s response
Take A Look Back At Three Blogs We Published in 2018
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Women in Agriculture, Ethiopia’s First Female President, and Tax Free Sanitary Products
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: World Warming Half A Degree, Women Blazing Trails, and Brazilian Elections
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Nobel Peace Prize, Sexual Harassment Legislation, and Helping Students Study Space
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Activism Through Cinema, Indigenous Languages in Alaska, and Fighting Stigma Against Albinism
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Sami People Fight for Rights, FGM Crackdown, Gazans Resist Blockade
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Apps to Curb Hunger, Girl Donates Piggy Banks to Flood Relief, and Heat Waves Getting Hotter
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Single Women Face Housing Discrimination, Women’s Month in South Africa, and Baby Changing Spaces in Men’s Restrooms
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Africa Leads Fight Against Plastic, Kenyan Women Claim Their Rights, and Nigerian Woman Upcycles Tires
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe Election, Global Wildfires, and Youth Voter Registration on the Rise
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Cicig, House Farm Bill Fails, Mushroom Revolution
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Palestinians Plan Bigger Protests, New Climate Doc, Feminist Favela
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: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Thai New Year & Women’s Rights, Indian Village Fights Femicide with Trees
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Extra Pads for Female Inmates, African Continental Free Trade Agreement, “Dancing Queer”
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Marielle Franco, Indian Women Farmers March for Land Rights, South African Teen Invents Fire-Resistant Shack
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Quilombo Claims Land Rights, SOS from Indonesia Palm Plantation, Rwanda Leads in Female Political Representation
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Somaliland Fatwa Bans FGM, Spain’s First Black Female MP, 25% of Sri Lankan Local Election Candidates Are Female
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Somalia Drought, Busting Menstruation Myths in India, Female Afro-Brazilian Drummers Break Gender Barrier
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Cape Town Water Crisis, Rohingya Repatriation, Honduran Women March
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
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: African Refugees Champion Girls’ Education, Indian Women Farmers Claim Land Rights, Indigenous Women Occupy Washington State Capitol
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Wildfires Affect Farmworkers, South Sudanese Women Want Peace, Syrian Teen Wins Peace Prize
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: “Frontier Midwives”, Blackouts in Malawi, Mekong Review
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Haiti Struggles to Rebuild, US Military in Africa, Making Solar Roofs from Trash
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Political Crisis, Plastic Pollution in the Philippines, #StopLine3
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Vietnam Recovers from Typhoon Damrey, LGBTQ Rights in Guatemala, South Africa’s Black Beekeepers
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Resisting Bayou Bridge Pipeline, Ending Child Marriage in Ghana, Pushing Women’s Rights in Kyrgyzstan
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Somalia “9/11”, Mexico Quake Survivors, Requiem for Cambodia
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Ugandan Students Fight Early Marriage, No Fireworks in New Delhi, Refugees and New Yorkers Dine Together
Ugandan Authorities Shut Down ActionAid’s Work, Freeze Bank Accounts
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Famine Averted, Saudi Women Drive, Monitor Deforestation with an App
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Schools in Sierra Leone Re-open, Trudeau Addresses Colonization at UN, Philippines’ LGBTQ Rights Bill
ActionAid Continues to Demand Justice and Accountability in Uganda
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Biometric Voter Registration, Beekeeping Amidst Kenyan Drought, Mayan Weavers Fight Exclusion
“Sierra Leoneans are very strong people, but it’s not easy. Some of them who were affected [by mudslides] were just barely picking up after the Ebola crisis.”
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Rohingyas Flee, Sierra Leone Mudslide Survivors, Liberia’s Women’s Rights Movement
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Pakistan Floods, Ghanaian Farmers Demand Land Rights, Atlanta’s Pianos for Peace
Sierra Leone Mudslide Disaster – Every Day, Every Hour, I Think About The Women And Children
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Niger’s “Husband Schools”, Climate Gentrification in Little Haiti, Chile Relaxes Abortion Ban
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Sierra Leone Mudslides, Brazil Court Favors Indigenous Land Rights, Comedic Relief for Refugee Children in Europe
ActionAid Response to Mudslides, Flooding in Sierra Leone
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Kenya Election, Nepal Bans Menstrual Exile, CO2 & Fish Food
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: Karate Cops in India, Young Farmers in the U.S., Pedal Power in Africa
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Climate, Sugarcane, & Hantavirus in Brazil, African Women Fight Fistula, Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Urban Farms, Delhi’s New Toilet App, Honduras’s Child Marriage Ban
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: G20 Protests, Countries Set Up Climate Funds, and Lebanese Café Brings Enemies Together
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: “Nasty Women” Edition
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Deadly Heatwaves, Niger’s Water Crisis, and Raising Menstruation Awareness in Nepal
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Gaza Electricity Crisis, Zimbabwe’s Youth Vote, Indonesian City Revokes Permits for Palm Oil
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Cyclone Hits Bangladesh, South Africans Protest Violence Against Women, and Mexico’s First Indigenous Woman to Run for President
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Ebola in DRC, Nepal’s Local Elections, South Africa’s “Super Grannies”
Donor governments must respect African ownership of renewable energy initiatives.
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: 82 Chibok Girls Freed, Zika Emergency Is Over, & Renewables in the Philippines
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Fighting Sexual Harassment in Uganda, East Africa Food Crisis, Vietnam’s Feminist Rappers
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
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Chibok Girls Still Missing, Closed Cable Cars, Malala Yousafazi
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: South Africa Protests, Women in Pakistan Reclaim Public Spaces, and Marches Continue in Venezuela
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Doctors Test Ebola Vaccine, KXL Is Approved, Baseball in Gaza
Battle for Survival: Brave Women, Dry Rivers and Safety
3 Things You May Have Missed: IWD Protests, Pruitt & Climate, and Somalia Declares National Disaster
ActionAid USA Statement on International Women’s Strike
ActionAid Statement on Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Horn of Africa Drought, #NODAPL Camp Evacuation, Syrian Women Call for Release of Detainees
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Alternative Rite of Passage in Kenya, Haiti’s New President, and Pakistan’s First Female Bomb Squad Member
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Refugees in Limbo, Thai Grandmas Fight Mining, Indian Scientists’ Cheaper Carbon Capture Method
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: The Gambia’s President Returns, India’s #IWillGoOut March, and Women in Egypt Take the Wheel
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
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Ebola Vaccine, Acid Attack Survivors, Political Stalemate in the Gambia
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: African Women Climb Kilimanjaro, Gambia’s New President, Afghan Female Cyclist
These African farmer women just climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to demand their land rights
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Standing Rock Doc, Rohingya Refugee Crisis, Kenya Weapon Burning
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: #NoDAPL, Karate Grannies, Myanmar
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: South Africa, Guatemalan Refugees & Malala Yousafzai
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Haiti Cholera Prevention, Damascus Rally & Boko Haram
We’re seeing an unparalleled momentum to tackle climate change
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Air Pollution, India Acid Attacks & Drought in Southern Africa
