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...
An extreme new anti-gay law has just been passed in Uganda that includes life sentences for gay sex – for both men and women - and up to seven years in jail for any person or even director of an...
A year on from performing with the Wiggles, Red Wiggle Murray Cook has stepped off the stage and into the cold hard reality that many kids around the world face: In getting what we and our kids take...
Sydney Comedy Festival’s second annual Frocking Hilarious, hosted by ActionAid Australia is back in 2014, with tickets now on sale!An all-female line-up of Australia’s funniest women will take to the...
Thanks to generous ActionAid supporters, we have been able to make incredible changes for communities in Cambodia. So we thought you'd like to see these adorable Valentine's Day photos, taken at...
“My community is always faced with disasters such as floods. It damages the rice and destroys property and housing,” - Mourn Samady, an 8th grade student from Svay Rieng, Cambodia.South East Asia is...
In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, the Vietnamese community in New South Wales raised $92,000 that will help thousands of people who are still in desperate need.Thang Ha, President of...
As we embark on a new year, I continue to reflect on a week I spent in the Philippines just before Christmas. Most of the week was spent at a workshop near the city of Cebu. The workshop brought...
Since arriving in the Philippines, the ActionAid team I'm part of has met many, many people in communities severely affected by the typhoon. We’ve all found that the Filipino people are very open...
Reported rapes in Delhi have almost doubled and sexual assaults quadrupled since the death of Jyoti Singh – known as “Nirbhaya” – following her brutal rape on a bus in Delhi on 16 December 2012.But...
Thousands of you have been bombarding Barclays with the challenge to clean up its act on tax havens in Africa since we launched the campaign a couple of weeks ago.Until now, Barclays has...
It’s been just over a month since Typhoon Haiyan struck in the Philippines. As the media’s attention shifts to matters of seemingly more importance back home, another silent and less visible, crisis...
Throughout the course of his magnificent life, Nelson Mandela worked for freedom. Freedom for the poorest and most vulnerable people to live with dignity, escape the cycle of poverty, and to stand up...
When walk into the front yard of her house, Asekenye is there to greet us with a hug. She’s a warm, spirited young woman of 17, born without arms. Asekenye has taught herself to write with her foot...
So many of the stories I heard in San Joaqin village were heartbreaking. Stories of grasped hands slipping away, and loved ones being carried off by the storm. Of grandmothers holding onto uprooted...
Just getting off the plane at Tacloban airport took us aback. The walls of the airport have blown away, and only part of the roof remains on the structure that is now nothing but a shell. “Arrivals”...
