In the USA? Stand in solidarity with Esther and other women smallholder farmers! Tell Congress to pass a deal to stop us from going over the fiscal cliff!
A UK biofuel company took land from Halima Ali and her community. They promised fair compensation and badly-needed social services in exchange- but none of these promises have been kept
ActionAid Australia’s campaign The Other You connects people like you, who want to fight injustice, with ActionAid Activists overseas who are doing just that.
Even now, I feel like I’m still inside the debris, amongst the heaped dead bodies and buzzing flies. Hearing the screams of the survivors, the screeching of the industrial machinery lifting away...
What are people saying about @ActionAidRwanda?Tweets about "#AARwanda"// Supporting communities to claim their rights is one of the most important aspects of ActionAid's work. That involves not only...
I recently returned from a visit with ActionAid Rwanda, whose staff graciously showed me around one of the communities they work with in the western district of Karongi (Gitesi sector). Like much of...
The Tax dialogue in many African countries has for a long time been left either to the tax collectors trying to reach their annual almost always 'bursting targets' or to the government technocrats....
I hear the wailing horns of the ambulances and other sirens from vehicles showing the flag of Bangladesh. They're being escorted by special order protocol men carrying walkie-talkies, dust masks and...
Though Margaret Thatcher is no longer among the living, her ideology lives on. That ideology – known today as neoliberalism, or “free market fundamentalism” in a phrase coined by George Soros – is...
This blog was written by Matheus Bizarria, an Activista from ActionAid BrazilYesterday I was surprised to learn that my 16 year old cousin, always very quiet and calm, had been suspended from school...
I feel very proud to be working with ActionAid to promote women’s rights with local communities in Liberia. It’s so important because when women can live free from violence, free to be in charge of...
Throughout African history, activism has made use of a wide array of campaign techniques in order to create intended change as well as to set leverage over existing competition. None however can deny...
È lì sullo sfondo. Un vecchio televisore scassato. Sullo schermo vediamo le ultime immagini che raccontano la situazione in Siria. Il volume è disattivato. Non servono le parole. File di corpi senza...
The Netherlands is world famous for bicycles, windmills and tulips, but there is more to this tiny country – its role in the world of tax avoidance is huge!Multi-nationals are cunningly making use of...
This week I’m in Arusha, where ActionAiders from over 21 countries have gathered to talk about tax justice.One of the aims for the week is to develop our understanding so that we can all go home and...
National consultations with young volunteers were held in Jordan on the post 2015 Millennium Development Goals, and Activista participated in these discussions as an active youth group in the country...
Rasha says her family were lucky to get out of Syria alive. They fled the fighting in Syria eight months ago and now live in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon close to the Syrian border.There was...
Two thirds of the people living in the drought-prone Naogaon area of Bangladesh are dependent on agriculture for their earning and employment. During the lean period when there is a significant...
Amalia is a Syrian refugee living in Lebanon. She left her country more than a year ago, but so fresh in her mind are the memories of the night they left, she could be talking about something that...
"Activista" is ActionAid’s youth network, and it is one of the main youth networks that we work with – this also includes local and national youth organisations, movements and wider partners.
Through our youth fellowship scheme in Myanmar, we are supporting young leaders to stimulate change and development - working to make communities more self-reliant, according to their priorities.
Berhane Temesgen is an active member of the woreda 8 community police, a system started three years ago by which communities take up the responsibility to ensure safety and security in their...
Aitamaya Limbu, 36 years old and known as ‘Aitu’ in her community, participated in ActionAid’s Unpaid Care Work Programme and is a member of the Abhiyan Chautari Reflect circle.
Sabitra Tolangi is from a Dalit community and lives in ward number 6 of Hamarjung VDC in Terahthum, Nepal, where the culture of untouchability still persists and women are still considered as...
Farai Tendai (40) from Gokwe, Midlands Province in Zimbabwe, has four children who are all girls and was married in 1993 to a man who was a long distance bus driver. Things were good in her home...
As rebel soldiers from the “M23” group take control of Goma and threaten to continue their fight to capture other key cities in DRC, including the capital Kinshasa.
Nessilo Dorestant is 49 years old and is from La Source, Roseux. Like many Haitian farmers, his crops were mostly destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. He explains the need to shore up Haiti'...
When disasters strike, people need information as much as they need shelter food, water and safety. By providing the right information, at the right time, from the right source, lives and...
I came into this village with some confidence from the progress of development in my previous placement village, but I soon noticed a lot of problems. The men were drinking a lot of alcohol and spent...
20 year old Joassaint Nelson is from Philippeaux, an area in which thousands of earthquake survivors have been living in tents since the earthquake of January 2010.
Sellina Narumbe is a pastoralist from Isiolo, northern Kenya. Reliant on her livestock for her survival, she has been hit hard by the ongoing drought sweeping parts of the country. Lack...
