Chris Coxon

I’m ActionAid’s Communications Co-ordinator for International Campaigns

Communications Co-ordinator, International Campaigns
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Chris.Coxon@actionaid.org
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I’m ActionAid’s Communications Co-ordinator for International Campaigns, based in our Europe office in Brussels.

I link up our international campaigns and communication work, working with colleagues across almost 50 countries to ensure maximum impact for our work on important issues such as hunger, women's rights, tax justice.

What motivates me most about working for ActionAid is hearing about the problems facing people around the world and taking their voices to a wider audience.

Latest blogs

Video celebrating International Women's Day in The Gambia!

Our Activistas in The Gambia work with local communities to stop violence against women.  And this International Women's Day  they've been investigating what the major issues are for...
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Chris Coxon

Tax dodging back in the headlines

Wow, what a week! The launch of our new report ‘sweet nothings’, exposing tax dodging by the Associated British Food Group, has created a media frenzy. Here’s a round-up of what’s been going on this...
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Chris Coxon

EU: biofuels policy “isn’t perfect”

In a major shift in its biofuels policy, the European Commission today announced that it was limiting the use of biofuels made from food crops in its renewable energy targets. But late changes to the...
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Chris Coxon

Building safer cities in Bangladesh

After an hour and a half on Dhaka’s crowded roads where the kamikaze bus driver is king, I reach Chanpara slum in Roopgong, just outside of the Bangladeshi capital.The corrugated iron huts are home...
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Chris Coxon

Drought and dust twisters in the Sahel

In the village of Sare Samba Niebe lie the ruins of huts that were once home to a family of 30 people. Situated on a patch of sun-scorched land, just off a dusty, bumpy track, there’s an eerie feel...
A dust twister moves through Sare Samba Niebe village in eastern Senegal
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Chris Coxon

The sound of fighting hunger

It’s noon when I arrive in Bady village and step out into a scorching, 40°C dry heat. This dusty village near Tambacounda, in East Senegal, is suffering from a drought that is hitting countries...
Sira Diabaté making diampe sponges in Bady village, Senegal
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Chris Coxon

Biofuels – an expensive climate con

No matter where you go to check the news, you’re probably used by now to hearing all about the financial crisis. Governments across Europe are slashing their budgets and we’re told the age of...
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Chris Coxon

G20 ignores international organisations’ warnings on biofuels

With continued instability on the financial markets dominating the 2011 G20 leader’s summit, it should come as little surprise that other important issues have been swept aside. One of these is the...
Jatropha growing in the Dakatcha Woodland in Kenya
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Chris Coxon

The CAP doesn’t fit...

What’s the first thing that comes into your head when you think of the EU? Could it be farming or the Common Agricultural Policy to be precise? Introduced back in 1962 when the European Union only...
ActionAid activists protesting against CAP subsidies
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Chris Coxon

G20 fails on food

The first ever G20 Agriculture Ministers’ meeting ended in failure as the world’s leading economies failed to take the decisions needed to avert a looming global food crisis. In the lead up to the...
ActionAid activists protest ahead of G20 Agriculture Ministers' meeting in Paris
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Chris Coxon
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