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.
That’s all folks! This year’s G8 summit has just finished in Northern Ireland.As often happens, major world events eclipsed the planned agenda to some extent – in this case Syria. Here’s hoping that...
Over the next two days leaders of the G8, the world’s eight richest countries, will meet to discuss reforming the global tax system. Over these 48 hours, developing countries will lose £1.4 billion...
Today ActionAid Kenya is celebrating that Sunday was the International Day of the African Child. We use the day to remind our self and the people we work with, that we have to end the social...
After a four year absence, I’m back at the UNFCCC climate talks, although this time it’s the mid-year meetings in Bonn rather than the end of year summit.This is where deals are made and broken and...
Reports of the G8’s death were premature. It’s alive and kicking, and might even do some good on one key economic issue this year – tax.This may come as a surprise since so many observers wrote off...
Last week, the High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (HLP) released its final report. Co-chaired by the Heads of Government of Indonesia, Liberia, and the United Kingdom, the report is...
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...
Part 1. When the levee breaks.12th of April 2013. For the residents of G-Block in Bawana, a resettlement colony on the outskirts of Delhi, that bright summer day was progressing as usual, till...
The National Alliance for Risk Reduction and Response Initiative (NARRI) Consortium from Bangladesh, which is led by ActionAid, has been awarded the 2013 UN Sasakawa Award – the highest award for...
The representatives of big business, including the big accountancy firms, have been scurrying in and out of politicians’ offices trying to persuade them that getting companies to pay their fair share...
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....
Daw May Win Myint is clearly not a woman who scares easily. Petite, yet steely, she has devoted 20 years to the cause of democracy in Myanmar. As a key member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League...
Hla Hla Yee is a high-cheekboned, pretty twenty-nine year old, her neat pink top and flowerly longhi setting off her delicate features. She looks ladylike and chic, even aristocratic.
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...
