Can you imagine being able to smell the sea from where you live, but having soldiers restrict your movements, so you can never take your children to the beach?
A change is coming. The cry is being heard everywhere. From Delhi to the Congo, New York to Nairobi – the world is waking up to the fierce and urgent call to end the abuse of women, whenever and...
Nandini, a young soft-spoken woman in her mid twenties, could not hide her delight when she grabbed the mic from the organiser and announced, Yes. We had a baby girl and I must be the happiest...
To be able to provide essential services such as hospitals and schools required by their people, developing country governments need to have the power to collect the taxes they are due from big...
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction conference centre in Geneva is bustling with over 3000 people representing governments, the UN, NGOs, academia and the private sector. They have...
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...
The U.S. Senate is holding public hearings today on Apple Computer’s use of tax havens to avoid paying taxes. The hearings - and the related Congressional investigations into corporate tax avoidance...
Ever seen a laughter flashmob? ActionAid and friends took it to the streets last weekend to promote our amazing all-woman comedy gala on Thursday May 9th 2013. You can get tickets to this event,...
One of the women who impressed us most on our visit to Kenya last year was Susan Apua, a 36 year old smallholder farmer. She’s a mother of six who also had to adopt six more children when her husband...
You may remember that last year, we invited you to support our Keep Girls in School campaign by writing a postcard to a girl in Ghana. Your response was tremendous; we received almost 400 postcards...
The last day of the ActionAid Fellows conference is focussing on the future, and there seems to be little doubt in the Fellows’ minds about their ambitions. Their number one dream is to form a...
Three experienced ActionAid Fellows (community leaders) from Rakhine State in Myanmar recently told us how they employed a clever media strategy to tackle corruption in their local community:“I think...
As part of ActionAid’s Safe Cities Initiative, I’ve been visiting some of the areas on the outskirts of the capital, Phnom Penh, where these women live.Approximately 500,000 workers are employed in...
As millions of women and men around the world rise today to demand an end to gender-based violence, I wanted to reflect on our safe cities initiative, a programme that ActionAid has been running for...
Yesterday, it was foggy winter morning when we set out to Modhupur, Tangail, located in central part of Dhaka Division. The temperature was so low that we all were literally shivering. We were 9 from...
After the earthquake that killed close to 300,000 people in January 2010, ActionAid Haiti saw an opportunity to make one disaster-prone community much much safer.Philippeaux is a desperately poor...
Haiti 3 years on >>The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 plunged an alarmingly fragile population into disaster. Over 220,000 people died, 250,000 were wounded, and...
